1540 Room is the dining room of The DeSoto hotel on Madison Square. The name points to Hernando de Soto's expedition through the Southeast in 1540 and the spice trade that followed. Chef Collin Clemons cooks seasonal Lowcountry menus from local farms, and the hotel says he was named the city's best chef less than a year after opening. Savannah Magazine readers voted it the best fine dining room in the city for 2026.
An inn with a dining room and a separate tavern that keeps its own hours. The inn says the tavern opens daily at 4pm and closes by 11pm, with food during kitchen hours.
A Bay Street wine bar named for its street number. The bar adds that 208 'symbolizes manifesting wealth and abundance' and then admits, 'It's also our address.' Wednesday nights are Bubbles & Blues with singer Laiken Love, and Tuesdays bring five dollar tapas toppers. Readers voted it best wine bar in Connect Savannah (2022) and in Savannah Magazine (2026).
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
45 Bistro has been the dining room of The Marshall House hotel since 2001, the third home of a restaurant Sandy Hollander has run since the mid 1980s. Eat It and Like It reported on September 14, 2026 that it will leave the hotel when the year ends ... the last service is December 31, 2026. The hotel sold on June 1, 2026 and its new owners plan to remake the space in 2027. The team has said it hopes to reopen elsewhere in Savannah. 45 Bistro is open now and has said it will leave The Marshall House on 31 December 2026.
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Katie Bryant and Mark Ekstrom, both from Pennsylvania, opened Auspicious in Sandfly in 2017 as a Sundays-only bakery. In March 2024 they bought the former Paula Deen's Creek House on Whitemarsh Island, announcing it with 'We bought a restaurant, y'all ... a big one'. That building now holds a second bakery counter and their brunch restaurant, Bread & Butter. Sand Cat Coffee on Tybee sells their ice cream, by one account.
Kay Heritage started Big Bon in 2016 as a wood-fired pizza pop-up and grew it into a bodega serving scratch-made bagel sandwiches, Korean-inspired pizza and bowls. The shop calls itself veteran-owned and says it bakes with non-GMO flour and local honey and uses no seed oils. Its site carries a '2026 Georgia Small Business ROCK STAR' badge, and Savannah Magazine readers named it runner-up for Bagel in 2026.
Bread & Butter is the brunch restaurant Auspicious Baking Co. opened inside the former Paula Deen's Creek House on Whitemarsh Island, which closed in January 2023 and sat empty until Katie Bryant and Mark Ekstrom bought it in March 2024. It shares the building with a second Auspicious bakery counter and has what the site calls a creative bar menu. A fall festival is on the calendar for Friday, October 23.
Cohen's Retreat is a campus on Skidaway Road with a Lowcountry restaurant and bar, a market, a bakery called The Little House and four cottages to rent. It also has a string of event rooms, among them the Art Tank, the Atrium, the Chef's Table and the Clubhouse. Savannah Magazine readers named it runner-up for Happy Hour in 2026.
Flora and Fauna opened in May 2024 in the corner building where Cheryl and Griffith Day ran Back in the Day Bakery from 2002 to February 2024. It belongs to FARM Hospitality Group, with chef Brandon Carter as a partner. Carter told Garden & Gun that Cheryl's biscuit would stay on the menu. The daytime side is a bakery and coffee house using flour from Anson Mills.
Foxy Loxy calls itself equal parts coffee shop, bakery and Tex-Mex cantina, with hand-made tacos and locally roasted coffee. It hosts artist receptions on the first Friday of each month and live music around the fire pits in its courtyard. The E. Shaver Starland book clubs meet here. Savannah Magazine readers named it runner-up for Coffee Shop in 2026.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
Libby Miller and Gay Fortson started Friendship Coffee in 2013 as a wholesale roaster and later opened the cafe on Wilmington Island. It serves locally roasted coffee, pastries baked that day, breakfast and lunch, with recipes the site says are made from scratch daily. There is a small shop of local goods inside. Closed Wednesdays.
Goose Feathers has served breakfast, lunch and its own baked goods beside Ellis Square since 1986.
Henny Penny calls itself a family friendly art space combined with baked goods and craft coffee, built to celebrate and support the parent tribe. Savannah Magazine describes children working on a weekly rotating art project that costs $14. It belongs to the Foxy Loxy family, alongside Foxy Loxy Cafe and The Coffee Fox.
A dessert bar that pairs baking with bartending: cakes, chocolates, coffee drinks and cocktails late into the evening. Rebecca Radovich and Janine Finn opened it in 2007, and the bar says it has won a local best desserts award 16 years in a row. A second, smaller Lulu's is on Whitemarsh Island at 4700 US Hwy 80 E.
Open late. Go earlier if you want a calmer room.
The Mate Factor is a yerba mate cafe on Hall Street, a few blocks east of Forsyth Park, and the Savannah outpost of a small group of cafes under the same name. It closes Friday afternoon and stays closed Saturday.
Savannah Coffee Roasters says it has been roasting for more than 100 years, and its Liberty Street cafe sells the house blends by the cup and by the bag ... Captain's Choice, Swamp Fox Espresso, Tybee Island Coconut. Savannah Magazine readers named it the city's best coffee roaster for 2026.
Belinda Baptiste, a self-taught baker, has run Unforgettable Bakery in the Forest Park Shopping Center since 2009. The bakery draws on her Haitian-American heritage and sells breads, cakes and home-brewed juices. The site says it works with local youth, young adults and people without housing. Baptiste was a James Beard Award semifinalist for Outstanding Bakery in 2023, according to the bakery.
Yia Yia's says it set out to be a neighborhood Greek restaurant that feels like Grandma's house on a Sunday. The kitchen serves gyros, Greek lasagna, spanakopita and falafel, and the market side sells Greek wines, olive oil, coffee and jams beside a bakery case. Savannah Magazine readers named it runner-up for Mediterranean in 2026.
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