Ranelli's Deli & Cafe
Ranelli's has run since 1971 and is a family-owned deli in Five Points South run by Rick and Sarah Ranelli. In May 2026 Bham Now reported that The Takeout named its Italian sub the best in Alabama. Food Network earlier named it the best deli in Alabama in 2020.
- Address
- 1225 20th Street South, Birmingham, AL
- Phone
- (205) 933-6983
- Website
- ranellisdeli.com
- Cuisine
- deli, italian, sandwiches
- Good to know
- Long Running, Family Owned
- Verification
- Details researched October 14, 2026. Hours and offerings change, so confirm with the venue before visiting.
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What people come here for, beyond what is on the menu.
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For whoever runs Ranelli's Deli & Cafe. This is what a search engine or an AI assistant can currently read about the place. It is free, it is here whether the venue joins in or not, and it can be corrected any time.
- Street address on file: yes
- Neighborhood assigned: yes
- Phone number published: yes
- Website on file: yes
- Hours published: no Hours drive the most time-sensitive question in local search.
- Cuisine or specialty described: yes
- Photography on file: yes
- Website reachable: pass HTTP 200
- Served over HTTPS: fail Browsers and crawlers both discount sites that are not served securely.
- Structured data present: fail Structured data is how a machine knows this page describes a restaurant rather than a blog post.
- Declares a business type: fail A Restaurant, BarOrPub, or LocalBusiness type is what puts a venue into local answer sets.
- Page description written: fail The description is what gets quoted when a search engine or assistant summarizes the venue.
- Menu linked from the homepage: fail A menu behind a PDF or an image is invisible to every system that reads text.
- Hours published on site: fail Hours are the most time-sensitive fact in local search and the most commonly stale.
- Address published on site: fail A site that never states its own address cannot confirm the entity anywhere else.
- Social profiles linked: fail Linked profiles are how a machine confirms it is looking at one business and not two.
- Open to AI crawlers: pass No AI crawler is blocked in robots.txt.
Website checks last run October 15, 2026 against the venue's own site.
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