Perennial restaurant opens in Montgomery with a community focus

By: Amber Sutton

Perennial, a new restaurant that opened in August in Montgomery, is looking to bring a menu of dishes made with locally sourced ingredients to the capital city and prove everything has a purpose in the process.

Owner Deanne Allegro, a nutrition professor in the kinesiology department at Auburn University at Montgomery as well as a registered dietitian, said she was first inspired to use her knowledge to open a restaurant that worked with local farms and providers after witnessing the delays in food production during the pandemic.

“I’ve always worked in the field of food and nutrition,” Allegro said. “I talk a lot about how I feel the food systems should work to support people within a community, and when the pandemic hit and we saw disruptions in the food supply, I just decided that I wanted to stop talking and try to do some of these things.”

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