Dean Robb and Jim Keet set out to open a new restaurant in Birmingham, Ala., back in 2017. The new partners, who met while working at Taziki’s Mediterranean Café, looked at 25 locations before finding the right spot.

“One day, we saw an old building that was absolutely charming and perfect for our needs,” Robb says. He contacted the landlord, Cathy Sloss Jones, who immediately met with the duo. “Within an hour of meeting with Cathy, we knew this would be the perfect location.”

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Birmingham Business Journal

The owner of Blueprint on 3rd, Dean Robb, is bringing out the sociable side of Birmingham's food scene.

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BirminghamRestaurants.com

Tonight, we are honored to be Dean Robb’s guests at Blueprint on 3d, seated at the head table. 

Time flies. So typically, I say, “seems like yesterday...” Yet it seems longer than one year ago, when we got our first taste of Blueprint—at their pre opening family and friends’ dinner. Never seen a pre opening dinner go as splendidly. From food to service this restaurant ran like a well-oiled machine from the start. 

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Foodies of Birmingham

Blueprint on 3rd, affectionately called B3 by locals, has made quite a mark on the Pepper Place district of Downtown Birmingham over the past months. What used to be the Birmingham Blueprint Company headquarters is now a trendy restaurant, owned by Birmingham’s Dean Robb, a veteran of the local restaurant scene.

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Alabama Newscenter

Blueprint on 3rd, one of Birmingham’s hottest new restaurants, is named, quite simply, for the building it occupies – the old Birmingham Blueprint Company headquarters. But, really, owner Dean Robb’s decades-long career as a restaurateur has been a kind of creative, working blueprint for this place.

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BhamNow

Located in the heart of Pepper Place at 3000 3rd Avenue S., Blueprint on 3rd opened its doors on June 19th, and it is already making an impact on Birmingham with its industrial interiors and hearty American cuisine.

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Birmingham Restaurants

This weekend is TumTum Tree Foundation’s Wine Auction Weekend 2018. The Foundation enriches the lives of Alabama’s children who face life-altering and life-threatening illnesses. Over 29 years, TumTum Tree Foundation has donated over $11 million to Alabama children’s charities. And the TumTum Tree Wine Auction is the longest-running charity wine auction in the United States devoted to raising money for children’s charities.

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Iron City Ink

Dean Robb is far from a stranger to the food scene. After years in the industry, including 17 years working at Bottega Restaurant and Bottega Café with James Beard Award-winning chef Frank Stitt, it was time Robb gave Birmingham a new restaurant concept.

When owner and operator Robb opened Blueprint on 3rd, an American-food brasserie also known as B3, he knew exactly the kind of high standards, fresh food and undeniably friendly atmosphere it takes for a restaurant to be a success. He also knew there was a gap in American eateries in Birmingham.

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Bizjournals.com

Magic City bars, old and new, play a key role in Birmingham's award-winning culinary scene.

From trusted standards such as Highlands Bar and Grill to new award-winning bars such as The Atomic Lounge, the city has a lot to offer its thirsty residents.

Go behind the scenes at several popular bars with their bartenders to see what people like to drink and hear some of the crazy things they say.

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AL.com

An appetizer at Blueprint on 3rd speaks volumes about restaurant veteran Dean Robb's new place.

The chanterelles, grilled and paired with arugula and parmesan, are foraged by the head chef, James "Huck" Huckaby, and Mousse, his chocolate Lab.

Huck says that when chanterelles pop up, he and Mousse emerge from woodland honey holes with pounds of mushrooms. He also forages other wild foods, including watercress.

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Style Blueprint

When Dean Robb sits down for breakfast, chances are he’s already conjuring up what’s for dinner. “I’ve just always appreciated food,” says Dean, who grew up eating all things homemade. His childhood was marked by fresh produce and smokehouses in the backyard. “I can remember my grandmother canning vegetables and working in the garden. We just always had good, fresh food,” he says.

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B-Metro

It turns out this blueprint is more than a reproduction of a technical drawing, an architectural plan, or an engineering design. This blueprint is a reunion, and a bit of rebirth for veteran Birmingham restaurateurs Dean Robb and James “Huck” Huckaby, the executive chef.

Two decades after working together at Frank Stitt’s Bottega and careers that took them to other cities and types of hospitality enterprises, they are hard at work on a new polished yet casual American brasserie near Pepper Place, Blueprint on 3rd.

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AL.com

Just think, if he hadn't played drums in the Jacksonville State University marching band, life might have taken a different path for Dean Robb.

Maybe he would be back home in Illinois, where, for the first 14 years of his life, he grew up in a small town of about 1,400 people.

Perhaps he wouldn't have gotten that job tending bar at Anniston Country Club, a part-time gig that led to a lifelong career in the hospitality industry.

Likely, he never would've met Frank Stitt, the James Beard Award-winning chef who hired Robb to help run his Bottega restaurant back in the early 1990s and has been a friend and inspiration ever since.

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