Huntsville’s Cotton Row Is Riding High On Its Culinary Cred

By Susan Swagler

Chef James Boyce made a name for himself at some of the most celebrated restaurants in the country. He and his wife and business partner, Suzan, have made a home for themselves at Cotton Row, their own restaurant in Huntsville.

Actually, Cotton Row is just one of their restaurants; they also own Pane e Vino Pizzeria, with its rustic-chic Italian fare and artsy Huntsville Museum of Art setting, and Commerce Kitchen, known for Southern cooking and gourmet style. The couple also partnered with Birmingham restaurateur Ed Hardin at Galley and Garden on the Magic City’s Southside.

Chef Boyce, inspired at a young age by his father and classically trained at the Culinary Institute of America, began his nearly three-decades-long career at New York’s Le Cirque, where he worked for six years with Daniel Boulud. Then he went to Mary Elaine’s at The Phoenician Resort in Scottsdale, Arizona; Palace Court at Caesar’s Palace in Las Vegas; and Studio at the Montage Resort and Spa in Laguna Beach, California. He helped bring national acclaim and Mobil Five-Star awards to Mary Elaine’s and Studio.“We had worked for other people for a long time,” Suzan says about the decision to move their family to Huntsville. “We took a risk. We wanted to see what it would be like to run our own restaurant.”

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