Food and Drink

  • Best Burger Savannah

    A Few Great Savannah Restaurants

    Eating well in Savannah isn’t a problem. There are any number of excellent restaurants to discover, from classic barbecue joints to more modern cuisine. Upon returning after five years, we compiled a list of some of our favorites. If you’re looking for good eats, you might want to give one of these restaurants a try.

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  • Tourism photo in Savannah

    The Rowdy Fun of River Street

    Say you’ve got a lady companion on your arm. She’s a fine lady, dainty and demure, and you wish to take a romantic stroll along the river, and perhaps even muster the courage to steal a furtive kiss on the cheek.

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  • Mrs Wilkes Restaurant food

    Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room

    Sorry, Paula Deen, but Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room is Savannah’s most famous dining establishment, with a history that stretches back to 1943.

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  • Schnitzel Restaurant Savannah

    The Schnitzel Shack of Rincon (via Darmstadt)

    The nearest place bore the tongue-twisty name of Schnitzel Shack, and was a half-hour away in a town called Rincon (rhymes with Lincoln).

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  • Old School Diner Chef Jerome

    Chef Jerome and The Old School Diner

    One of the area’s best-kept secrets is found a half hour south of Savannah, in the small village of Townsend: The Old School Diner, owned and operated by Chef Jerome. A couple friends invited us to the restaurant, where we enjoyed some deliciously unhealthy food, and had a rollicking good time that won’t be forgotten.

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  • Old Pinkie Master's Dive Bar

    Pinkie Master’s Lounge

    Let’s be honest here. Pinkie Master’s Lounge is great, but it’s not the kind of bar you’re going to take home and introduce to your parents. You won’t be taking Pinkie Master’s to the Olde Pink House for an awkward first date, and you would never conceive of one day marrying it. Pinkie Master’s just…

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  • Sentient Bean Savannah

    Cool Coffee at the Sentient Bean

    Savannah’s coolest cafe has long been the Sentient Bean. That is, if you measure a cafe’s coolness by its hipster quotient. For us fashion-challenged, self-conscious non-hipsters, the Sentient Bean might be Savannah’s most stressful cafe. Still cool, though.

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  • Clary's Diner Savannah Breakfast

    Clary’s for Breakfast!

    Clary’s on Abercorn is the quintessential American greasy spoon, serving breakfast all day long.

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  • Meat in BBQ Smoker

    Championship BBQ at Wiley’s

    A tiny restaurant in a teensy shopping strip, just before Victory Drive merges with the Islands Expressway, Wiley’s Championship BBQ is a real find. It’s been voted the best barbecue in Savannah multiple times in its short life, and for good reason.

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  • Back in the Day Bakery Bread Sign

    Back in the Day Bakery

    So when we discovered the Back in the Day Bakery, on the corner of Bull and 40th street, we were overjoyed. Bakeries are on almost every street in Germany, but in the States, that’s not the case.

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  • Lady And Sons Paula Deen Restaurant Savannah

    Paula Deen’s The Lady and Sons

    While we were living in Spain, eating incredible, organic dishes fresh off the fields, the Paula Deen Phenomenon was sweeping America. And by the time we moved to Savannah, she had become a bona fide celebrity.

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  • The Pink House Savannah

    Fine Dining at The Olde Pink House

    The Olde Pink House, on the western side of Reynolds Square, was built in 1771 and is the oldest surviving mansion in all of Savannah. Today, it’s one of the city’s most beloved restaurants, and is also home to a popular bar on its bottom floor.

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