Look to the Peach State for the best Soul Food around!
There's no better cooking in the South than the cooking that comes from the soul, or from your mama's kitchen. Savannah is one of the best places to eat soul food; it's in the deep South, life is slow-paced, and the food is full of love. The best soul food restaurants in Savannah stay true to their roots, and don't take cooking lightly.
Sweet Potatoes Kitchen
Sweet potatoes--a Southern staple.
Sister restaurant to the Toucan Café, Sweet Potatoes cooks traditional Southern soul food, but cuts out the butter and grease. The Southern charm begins in the kitchen and extends to the staff and the ambiance. Each day, the restaurant features a different dish made from sweet potatoes, from salad and soup to stuffing, chili and cornbread---all featuring the revered root vegetable.
The restaurant offers classic like fried green tomatoes, okra, green bean casserole and apple cobbler. Entrees include a peach-glazed BBQ chicken and fried catfish. Sweet Potatoes also serves up fried chicken and macaroni and cheese, but only on Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays. Prices are reasonable at Sweet Potatoes; entrees are priced from $5.50 to $8 and come with two sides and a biscuit. The restaurant is open from 9:00 a.m. to 11:00 p.m. Monday through Saturday.
Sweet Potatoes Kitchen
6825 Waters Ave., Savannah, GA 31406
912-352.3434
toucancafe.com/sweetP.html
The Olde Pink House Restaurant
Don't miss the Southern sushi.
Chef Vincent Burns serves up Southern soul food-influenced gourmet dishes in Savannah's cherished 18th-century mansion. The is also home to the Planter's Tavern, where patrons may enjoy live music. In addition to the restaurant, the Old Pink House hosts parties, caters, and provides banquet facilities.
For dinner, appetizers include crab cakes and fried green tomatoes with remoulade sauce, "Southern sushi," made of smoked shrimp and grits, blackened oysters with watermelon relish and blue crab beignets. Entrees include a BBQ grouper with grits and pear and apricot chutney, pecan-crusted chicken and bourbon molasses pork tenderloin with sweet potatoes and collard greens, among many other elegant dishes. The Olde Pink House is open for lunch every day from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. and for dinner Sunday through Thursday 5:00 p.m. to 10.30 p.m., and Friday and Saturday until 11:00 p.m.
The Olde Pink House Restaurant
23 Abercorn St
Savannah, GA 31401
912)-232-4286
americascuisine.com/georgia/savannah/TheOldePinkHouse.aspx
Alligator Soul
Enjoy the slow-paced way of life in Savannah.
Founded in 2003 by owners Hilary and Maureen Craig, Alligator Soul offers innovative Southern dishes made with local ingredients, while reminding diners that the most important part of the plate is its soul. The ambiance at Alligator Soul is romantic and elegant without losing its Southern charm. It is located below-ground, so it is rather easy to miss.
Executive Chef Chris Dinello offers, in addition to daily specials, fried green tomatoes, crusted in parmesan, Oysters Rockefeller, with collard greens, and a foie gras torchon, served with a brandy peach compote. For entrees, the menu features "Day Boat Snapper;" shrimp and grits; "Gumbo's Back Baby," a Creole dish; the "Little Hilbo," a Cajun-spiced steak dish named after the restaurant's late owner and a "Filet of 'Soul:" the menu's ultimate tribute to soul food, a tenderloin filet wrapped in bacon and grilled, served with mashed potatoes. For dessert, among other traditional dishes, the menu offers two very soulful choices: an Amaretto Peach Bread Pudding, a tribute to the Peach State, and Alligator Soul Banana Beignets.
Dinner at Alligator Soul is a little pricey; appetizers are around $11 and entrees are around $28. Alligator Soul is open, only for dinner, seven days a week from 5:30 to around 10:00 p.m.
Alligator Soul
114 Barnard St
Savannah, GA 31401-3277
912-232-7899
alligatorsoul.com
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