How Alabama chef Brody Olive became King of American Seafood

By: Jennifer Kornegay / Alabama Living

With its wall of windows providing sweeping views of Gulf waves kissing white-sand shores, Voyagers has been an elegant eating institution in Orange Beach since 1989. For decades, the refined restaurant inside the Perdido Beach Resort has delighted diners from all over and often played a celebratory role, hosting marriage proposals, honeymooners and 50th wedding anniversaries, as well as a multitude of other memorable moments and milestones.

Today, it retains much of its original character — including its knockout view — but the addition of Chef Brody Olive in 2016 brought renewed energy to the grand dame of coastal fine dining. Olive’s commitment to source local seafood and the innovative treatment it gets in his kitchen have elevated the place that was already on a tall pedestal. Olive reveres its history as much as anyone.

“It was the first fine dining on the Alabama Gulf Coast; the nostalgia of this place and the alumni of chefs — their high level of pedigrees — who’ve been through here are amazing,” he says. “The bones were great. I just brought a little polish and a fresh take. We now mix the white-tablecloth tradition with a bit of fun and the more adventurous dishes that I like to do.”

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