Restaurants & cafés / Birmingham
Big Rock Italian Chophouse
Italian steakhouse inside Birmingham's restored 1931 train depot, with prime steaks, handmade pasta and a cigar club.
01 / The story of this place
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Big Rock Italian Chophouse fills Birmingham's old Grand Trunk Western depot, which went up starting in October 1930 and opened in 1931. After the railroad left in 1978, the building became Norman's Eton Street Station in 1984 and then Big Rock Chophouse in 1997, which closed at the end of 2021. Cameron Mitchell Restaurants bought it in 2024 and reopened it in summer 2025 as an Italian chophouse. Expect USDA prime steaks and chops, handmade pastas and classics like veal parm, plus The Rock cigar club inside.
- Restored 1931 Grand Trunk train depot
- USDA prime steaks and handmade pasta
- The Rock cigar club on site
- Award-winning 2025 renovation (DBusiness)
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Sources & fact check · Checked: 2026-10-01
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