Eater is reporting today that Hugh Acheson’s Savannah Restaurant Will Definitely Be Called the Florence, Will Open in March 2014. From that piece:
Hugh Acheson’s Savannah restaurant will be called the Florence, officially. He’d tentatively called it Vittoria at first, then settled on the double entendre that the Florence provides: It’s not only the name of a city in Italy but also the name of Savannah’s famous waving girl statue.
Yes, Florence Martus. I wonder if she ever ate the Italian-ish cuisine that Acheson has planned. Click here for more on Acheson, who will also be featured at the Savannah Food & Wine Festival in November.
Now, let’s be clear that March 2014 looks like a really ambitious goal. There’s active construction on One West Victory, where Florence will be, but we haven’t really seen anything come out of the ground yet.
In other news, the Whole Foods Market in Savannah is now on Twitter at @wfmsavannah. I’m taking a preview tour of the store tomorrow (Saturday), which I will likely write about for next Tuesday’s City Talk — Tuesday is opening day.
Also of note: the Facebook page for the Whole Foods in Charleston (actually in Mount Pleasant) has 3140 likes, while the yet-to-open Savannah store has 8514.
In other foodie news, my City Talk column on Sunday is about my first trip to The Bier Haus, which got its beer and wine license just a week ago.
Spudnik will be opening soon on West Broughton.
Chipotle and Zoës Kitchen will both be opening in the next month or so next to Whole Foods.