"When pulling chair to table at this spot, you can actually dine where prisoners once gobbled their grub behind iron bars, doing penance for untold crimes. The building is the former City Hall, and the cafe now serves much more palatable fare inside preserved jail cells. The eatery spans a larger space for everyday dining, while the two former jail cells are now private dining rooms where stories still get told and history writes itself anew."
"The primary dining area, once the police chief's office, is spacious and casual, but tabletops still wear crisp, white cloths, framed by large drapery-clad windows and soaring ceilings with industrial-style beams. A charming patio offers more eating space with wrought-iron tables and an actual white-picket fence. But yesteryear lives within inside the cinderblock walls of the separate jail cages - where the ambiance takes a slight turn."
Main Street Cafe in Madison, Alabama, operates within the former City Hall, repurposing two preserved jail cells as private dining rooms. The main dining area once served as the police chief's office and features white tablecloths, large drapery-clad windows, soaring ceilings, and industrial-style beams. A patio with wrought-iron tables and a white-picket fence offers additional seating. The jail-cell rooms retain cinderblock walls, sparse white and murky-brown paint, a decorative-relief panel, a dangling old-school chandelier, and narrow iron-bar windows that preserve the building's historical ambiance while serving Southern comfort fare.
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