Tag: Restaurants

Food trucks in Savannah? A case study of the old Sears parking lot

In my City Talk column on Sunday, I wrote about the restrictions in the city of Savannah’s first draft of a food truck ordinance. Sure, sure, sure, city officials keep saying that it’s just a draft and that everything in…

American Legion Post 135, Betty Bombers have returned

It was a long 10 months or whatever in the wilderness for us Legion refugees. I live about 5 very short blocks from Savannah’s American Legion Post 135 and I’m sort of a night owl and I don’t watch much…

A few photos of The Grey

My City Talk column today is about The Grey. I love it. I took a few photos with my new Fujifilm x100t when a friend and I ate there last Tuesday night.

Chipotle on Savannah’s Southside probably opening by late September

Chipotle opened its first Savannah location on Victory Drive near Whole Foods Market in late September 2013. It looks like the second Savannah Chipotle will be opening in late September 2014. The second local store will be at 318 Mall…

Savannah restaurant scene getting more interesting — a quick roundup of latest developments

There has been some pretty exciting news lately for the Savannah restaurant and dining scene. For this quick update, I’m relying heavily on embedded posts from Facebook pages and other social media. You can quickly click on through those embeds…

Fire temporarily closes American Legion Post #135, Betty Bombers

As often as I’ve been to the lounge at the American Legion Post #135 over the years, you’d think I’d remember exactly when it became a hub of neighborhood activity. I live four blocks south of the Legion, and I…

Ampersand taking over the former Sparetime space

There have been tons of questions over the last few months about the fate of 36 Martin Luther King, Jr. Blvd. That’s at the corner of West Congress Street here in Savannah; the building was home decades ago to a…

Hugh Acheson on his new Savannah restaurant, the Florence, opening in May

Hugh Acheson — famed for his Athens restaurants Five and Ten, The National, and Cinco y Diez and Atlanta’s Empire State South — is still apparently on track to open the Florence at One West Victory in Savannah. If you’re…

A few more Savannah restaurant scene updates

Another in periodic posts about culinary developments around Savannah. On Sunday, much of my City Talk column was about Bub-Ba-Q, the new restaurant at 514 MLK, in the old Brick House space. Blowin’ Smoke occupied the spot for years before…

A few quick updates on the Savannah restaurant scene

Just another in occasional posts with news about the Savannah restaurant scene. According to its website, Soho South Cafe is reopening on Monday, Nov. 25. The popular lunch spot on Liberty Street will now also serve dinner Thurs.-Sat. and have…

A few more updates on the Savannah restaurant scene

I had previously noted that Cafe Florie was undergoing some changes, so last week’s announcement of the restaurant closing wasn’t too surprising. Here’s the post embedded from Facebook: Post by Cafe Florie. Dept. 7 East on Broughton Street (the Savannah…

Chipotle in Savannah opening Wednesday

Chipotle at 1801 East Victory Drive in Victory Station is scheduled to open on Wednesday, Sept. 25. So then all of you who have been incessantly searching for the opening date can give up on Google and actually just go…

A few thoughts on the end of the Paula Deen lawsuit

The two sides in the ongoing Paula Deen lawsuit have asked for a judge to dismiss it, apparently after some sort of settlement. From the AP’s Sides agree to drop Paula Deen discrimination suit: The lawsuit would be dismissed “with…

An update on Hugh Acheson’s planned restaurant, more Whole Foods info, and other Savannah foodie news

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,…