Great lunch spot. Had the ribeye sandwich with the chicken gumbo. Ribeye was cooked perfect and tasted amazing. Will be back for sure.

Staying at a hotel next door for the night and decided to get dinner her because it was right next door and so glad we did! Delicious food, great service, loved the "homey" feel to it. Highly recommended read more

I had a work trip outside of Birmingham and there were very few places to go for dinner that don't include chains and fast food. They had the usual local Mexican and Chinese but I wanted something more local! Lol! I prayed I could find something else... so I looked up Yelp and found a Cajun cafe. It turned out to be much better than I was expecting!!! I might go again tomorrow and order the muffuletta for lunch! I ordered the steamed shrimp app and it came with fantastic clarified butter and cocktail sauce. The shrimp were very big, juicy and well seasoned! For an entree I had the blackened fish tacos and they were lovely....enjoyed all the toppings that were included: spicy pico de gallo, guacamole and a Cajun remoulade. I tried the fish by itself and it was good! My friend ordered the wings and they were ok. My mind wasn't blown, but it hit the spot. They had homemade cheesecakes, but I passed...now I regret it! I should've ordered them!!! Next time I won't make the same mistake! read more

The food and service at Ragtime Cafe have been consistent. We enjoy our visit there every time.

Rag time is a great little local's joint. They have amazing hamburgers, great pasta, and daily fish specials. It's always pretty crowded at lunch, but I've never had a super long wait for a seat or for my food. In warmer weather it is very nice to sit outside for lunch and relax with a drink. read more

I have been here a dozen times and never have been disappointed. The servers are very nice and fast and keep you happy! The pasta dishes and burgers are amazing and the Oriental Salad is a favorite! read more

I have been to Ragtime Cafe twice and both times the food was fresh and delicious. We also had large parties both times, yet we still got out food in great time and had excellent customer service. This place is a hidden gem! read more

Thoroughly unimpressed with the service received at Ragtime Cafe. My husband and I showed up a few minutes after 12:00 and quickly placed our orders. After waiting at least a half hour, our waitress finally returned to our table to inform us that she FORGOT to put our order in. But she somehow managed to put the order in for the table next to us (whose order she took right after ours) and they had already received their food. I had to be at work so we couldn't wait for her to put the order in. She offered us salads to go, so we took them. Got to the car and the salad was tiny and didn't even have any protein. Great lunch. I called the manager in the car to complain and all she was willing to offer was a $10 gift certificate. Not sure what we'll get for $10. But we don't plan on returning due to poor service and lack of common decency. read more

Terrible experience! My husband and I went out to have a relaxing lunch, it was anything but relaxing. A woman approached a few tables soliciting, the big mouth waitress who was serving the tale next to us yells at the woman soliciting at the top of her lungs. Other restaurant employees joined in screaming at the woman across the restaurant. My ears were ringing and felt sick to my stomach. I was not able to eat my food and felt stressed and sick when my food arrived. They also only brought half of what we ordered. I will share my experience with my co workers and others. Thanks for a stressful day!!!! read more

Great place to eat. I will be back if I stay overnight in Pelham again. The place was good for watching sports and enjoying a good meal.

Thank you Yelpers! We've been to Ragtime Cafe twice now for lunch while in Birmingham. What a find! Quick and efficient service. Great food. Queso, bacon quiche, Po Boy, Cobb salad...all terrific. Don't be worried that it's in a strip mall; just stop, sit down, let them give you great service and food. read more

Local pub feel, very warm and informative waitress, decent selection of draft crafts, and interesting unique dining creations. I was looking for something lighter and found the Black and Bleu salad, blackened thin sliced ribeye over a Caesar Salad with bleu cheese and diced tomato. Personally didn't like the dressing as much as other Caesar dressings but overall it was a great meal especially in combination with a pint of Snake Handler read more

From the minute you walk in the door you can already tell this is the place to be by the number of people who are seated or waiting! Food flavor is amazing!! Atmosphere spot on!! Staff working and running their tails off!! I highly recommend the blackened shrimp salad, you won't be disappointed. read more

Had lunch there. Ordered chicken wings and the daily special and it was very very good

Great service and food. One of my favorite lunch spots. They have recently remodeled which adds a cozier feel. Lots of nice widescreens. I love the hamburgers. Large menu to choices. read more

Most amazing service and entrees. The twice backed potatoes alone are a meal. Prices are very reasonable but, the flavors of every item jump off the plate and jack slap you into a food coma. I can't wait to come back for more. read more

Rainy Saturday lunch. Located in a small strip mall. Indoor and outdoor seating. Seated promptly by a very friendly hostess. Drink order taken while seated. Promptly greeted by server. Ordered Fried Mozzarella as appetizer. More like cheese logs. Very good. Kid had Buffalo Chicken sandwich (reason we're here) and it was a hit. 8.5/10 per his scale. Wifey had Cheddar Bacon Chicken sandwich with Pasta salad. Sandwich was awesome with no added condiments. Pasta Salad was a meal in itself. Whole table shared, awesome! I had the Blackened Burger. It was good. Nothing special, but fresh and tasty cooked to order. Got crowded right at lunch hour. We will definitely be back. read more

Great sportsfan atmosphere but REALLY loud on a Friday night. Food was alright - 20 min wait was typical - fast service with a smile.

Great food. I get the blackened fish sandwich and salad with their house Cajun ranch dressing everytime.

Stopped here on a long drive through to the gulf coast. Decent craft beer selection, martini special ($5!), the ragtime shrimp appetizer was excellent, both salads were crisp and fresh, the dinner rolls hot and tasty. And service from Sean M was fast and friendly. Overall a great little place for a quick bite, we're already talking about making it a regular stop on this trip. read more

Great place for lunch! Or anytime realy. Great selection of food. Definitely try their Oysters Ragtime!

Great food and great service. The menu offers a lot of great choices. However, my favorites are the seafood and steaks. The grilled tuna and the filets are always fantastic. I also highly recommend that you get started with the cheese logs! Ragtime is by far my favorite restaurant in Birmingham. read more

Consistently good food and good service. I usually get the smoked turkey sandwich with extra crispy fries and a side of ranch - their dressing is out of this world. Nice little lunch spot x read more

Ragtime always hits the mark. The menu choices are great, and the daily specials are always something to look forward to. Highly recommend. read more

Very surprised and impressed with this little place!!! We started with Caesar salads that were great! And an appetizer of crab cakes which were phenomenal (and the sauce that comes with them is killer)! My boyfriend had the blackened grouper with crab and cilantro lime butter on top & a twice baked potato that was so tasty!!! I had the blackened mahi with crawfish etoufee and a baked potato that was also great! Highly recommend the salted caramel White Russian to drink in the winter time!!! Great service and we were seated quickly even though there was a wait and it was packed on a Friday night. read more

In town on business. I was looking for something close to the hotel and Ragtime was close. I could not have been more pleased with my choice. I had the grilled tuna and vegetables. My friends had the steak, twice baked potatoes (they raved about the spuds). The service was fast and good - the place did not have more than 1 or 2 open tables at any time. So good that we are going back again tonight. read more

Ragtime is such an awesome place to hang out after work or just for dinner with friends and family. They also have great lunch with everything from sandwiches and salads to hand-cut filets cooked to perfection. They also have homemade desserts that are phenomenal! The patio and bar is a great place to hang out and most of the customers and regulars and the staff is like family. Come check out Ragtime for excellent food and great spirits! read more

Great food and service. We were evacuees from Florida for hurricane Irma. One of the locals overheard our story and picked up our tab. Even without that this place deserves 5 stars. Food was great and want to go back for more but need to go home. read more

Mediocre food, nice staff, slow service. Waited until I'd eaten an appetizer and my side item to tell me they didn't have my entree item. Nice people but not worth it overall. Big disappointment. read more

Seafood mixed with bar food. Ragtime is a small restaurant in a strip mall type location that has a menu that is too varied to work well. They kinda sorta present a New Orleans style menu but they are really all over the place. Quiche, Mediterranean, BBQ Burgers and so forth. The food would almost certainly be better if they committed to a single theme. Not that the food is bad. It isn't. Some of the choices are quite good. My thought is they could be much better with a single signature approach. Cocktail bar off to the side as you enter but really too small to host a large gathering during a busy time of day, like after work. Tables outside, thus the "Cafe" part of the name. Ragtime is a cafe like 7-11 food is uh...food. You won't be disappointed if your expectations are modest. One thing that for me kills Ragtime as doable choice for food or drinks. The noise. I've never been in an establishment this loud that a rock concert wasn't taking place. It really is mind numbing. If you want to be heard 1st your table you will be yelling if the place is busy. I guess the small space and dynamics of the room is the main problem but if you get there before the rush but are there through it you will leave with your ears ringing. Could be the best food on earth and I still wouldn't want to spend any time there. If you are close by, it's not a peak hour time of the day for restaurants and you don't expect Hot and Hot caliber food Ragtime could work for you. Just avoid like Ebola for lunch unless you enjoy eating underneath a jet engine and screaming at your party. Peace. read more

Great place to stop while on the road. The food was fantastic. If you aren't a fan of Food chains and mass produced food, it's a fantastic place to stop since its not far from the interstate. read more

Dinner here with a friend during the week. It was very crowded and parking was a nightmare. Yet the service is excellent, we were seated quickly and our orders were perfect. It's was a bit complicated, substitutions and one order to go but it was all correct. Their menu is huge and has everything from salads and sandwiches to steaks. I look forward to returning and trying more items. read more

Long wait to be seated, the food was worth it. Ordered baked oysters ragtime, wedge salad, shrimp po boy. Taste buds were delighted. I forget what husband ordered, it must have been good since his plate was clean. read more

Just...yum! Wonderful filet as well as ribeye with cream wine sauce. The chef actually knows the meaning of "Medium", "Medium Well" and "Medium Rare":). Awesomely fast and attentive service even on an extremely busy holiday night. read more

I LOVE RAGTIME! The food is always amazing. No matter what you order it will be great! They have live music sometimes too! Always a great time at Ragtime! read more

The people who eat here must be drunk from the bar. The food was bland. Po boy was horrible and dry .The banana pudding Was mostly pudding . The reason I gave them 1 star was for the cajun pasta. Don't believe the hype I will not eat here again. read more

Let me start by saying the food was very good. The issue here was the service. We were two women traveling from California to Florida avoiding I-10 due to Hurricane Harvey. My friend is moving to Florida and I volunteered to accompany her so she didn't have to travel alone with her two dogs and cat. We found this place close to our hotel. This was our last night on the road and we were ready to have a nice meal. We were sat at a booth near a table with about 8 people. We had the same server as they did. After a bit of a wait our server came over and asked about drinks. We ordered a beer and a wine. Someone else came over and asked, also and I said we had ordered but I would like a glass of water, LIGHT ice. The water arrived FULL of ice. When our drinks arrived I asked our server for another water, no ice this time. I just can't drink really cold water. We were nothing but polite. As we waited some to time order our meal it was becoming clear that she was far more interested in taking care of the large table. They were loud and boisterous. When she did finally arrive to take our order we explained that we would like to share an appetizer (crab cakes at 12.00 and the stuffed tilapia at 16.00) We ordered the two sides (salad and twice baked potato). The large table continued to get louder. Frankly, we expected a manager to come at any moment and ask them to contain it a bit. There were clearly others who were not pleased. We could not talk to each other at all. As other tables left that area of the restaurant we decided that we would ask if we could be moved to another section. There was a place near the front separated from the loud table. We thought the loud table would be leaving soon, but noticed one person was still eating and then they ordered more drinks and dessert, so we knew we had to leave. My theory??? The server ignored us because we were two (slightly older, LOL) women who she, MISTAKENLY, assumed she would receive a small tip from and she WOULD receive a large tip from the LOUD table. My friend and are past servers and know what a hard job it can be and will tip generously, It takes a lot for us to leave a minimal tip and we NEVER stiff a server even under the most egregious circumstances. When the salad arrived we asked if we could move. The runner said yes, and that they would help. We picked up our drinks and then realized the runner was gone! So, we picked up everything that we could and found a table in the more quiet section. I went back to pick up the remaining items and found the table completely cleared! I asked the busser about it and he said he thought we had left! I said, no we just moved and could we please have the basket of crackers, etc. brought. He brought them right away. We ate the salad. Then the crab cakes arrived. Notice that this is out of order. Crab cakes were to be the appetizer. No problem, though. Crab cakes were okay. My fiancé is a chef and no one makes a better crab cake so I am always measuring against his. Then the main course arrived. When it was delivered it was another server who brought it. The server who did bring it made a point of saying they had brought us a larger salad because we were "sharing". While appreciated, we did not ask for this. I don't know if they thought they were compensating for us having to move everything from the previous table...The main course and twice baked potato were quite good and we enjoyed our meal. Finally, our original server made an appearance and asked if we wanted anything else. As stated earlier we left the basic 15% tip due to the lackluster service from an disinterested server. While our bill would not been nearly as high as the LOUD table's we certainly deserved to be treated as the paying customers we were. read more

Saw the good rating on Yelp and when the clerk at nearby La Quinta recommended it, we had to go. It was 5:30P on a Sat and pretty full (no special local sports draw, though we did see the Colts comeback vs KC Chiefs). Excellent ribeye sandwich, meat hanging outside the bread. Be prepared for horseradish punch if you order cole slaw. If they had milkshakes it would be a 5. read more

Great food at this regular stop on our evenings out. Lunch too. The parmesan grouper is awesome.

This place has a local feel. They remember you when you walk in the door. The food is awesome and fresh. Menu has great choices. Try the grouper or fried oyster basket. read more