Four blocks around Ellis Square with live music most nights. The doors open onto several different streets, so a place can be in City Market and have a Congress Street address.
A Congress Street live music bar. Visit Savannah says it books 'regional and touring bands every Tuesday through Saturday night', from blues and country to funk and jam bands, shows games on a 25 foot projection screen and serves Mexican food from Orale Tacos. Connect Savannah readers voted it best overall bar, best downtown bar and best bar for live music in 2022.
This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.
Belford's has been in City Market for more than 30 years by its own count, and pours a champagne brunch every day of the week.
Social Club sums itself up as 'Good Vibes. Great Bites. Bourbon Wall Worth Climbing.' It has a large outdoor area with live music, a late-night grill and a dog friendly patio, and calls itself 'one of Savannah's preferred independent concert venues.' It posts some of the latest hours downtown, open until 3am six nights a week.
This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.
This is the bar inside the American Prohibition Museum, upstairs in City Market. By day, Savannah Magazine says, 'museum tours conclude in Congress Street Up'. At night it opens on its own and the museum page marks those hours 'Museum Not Accessible', so no museum ticket is involved. Visit Savannah describes 'an authentic 1920s speakeasy, complete with a tin punch ceiling, parquet floors, period music and dapperly dressed bartenders.' The museum belongs to Historic Tours of America, a national attractions company.
Garibaldi is the Italian and seafood dining room on West Congress Street beside City Market. Its bartender Charlie Wentway won Savannah Magazine's 2026 readers' vote for best bartender. The room takes its last reservations at 9:30.
Little Duck Diner appears on both the Visit Savannah and the Savannah Magazine family lists. Savannah Magazine says much on the menu will appeal to children and points to the waffles with chocolate chips and strawberries. Visit Savannah calls it a top pick for pleasing the pickiest crowds.
A dueling piano bar that calls its nights 'a Rock-n-Roll party.' Two players take requests, joke with the room and keep the singalong going. The room holds nearly 500 people with seats for more than 250, nobody under 21 gets in, and Monday to Wednesday it is rented out for private events.
This is a music venue. It is loud when a show is on.
The Darling came down from Charleston and opened on Franklin Square on November 5, 2025, in a historic building that had sat empty for years and needed a full rebuild. Savannah Agenda reports two floors with room for nearly 300, and a private dining room upstairs with its own kitchen and raw bar. Happy hour runs 4 to 6 every day with dollar oysters. Savannah Magazine readers made it the 2026 runner-up for oysters.
The Grove calls itself a 'sophisticated casual restaurant & rooftop bar' in City Market and a 'Savannah home away from home.' It serves Southern-leaning lunch and dinner, then stays open as a bar until 3am on Friday and Saturday.
Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.
The Rail Pub says its building 'has been everything from a watering hole for railroad laborers, to a boarding house and a brothel since its opening in 1890.' Karaoke runs, in the pub's words, 'every damn night @ 9pm.' Fridays are Free Fried Chicken Fridays with live music in the yard, and the website counts down the days to St. Patrick's Day. Happy hour lasts all day on Monday.
Go early. It turns into a late-night spot later in the evening.
Wexford takes its name from County Wexford, because, the pub says, more than half of Georgia's Irish emigrants in the famine years of the mid-1800s came from that county. The interiors were imported from Ireland. Co-owner Jennifer Strickland took a 10-day eating tour of Ireland to shape the menu, then spent 18 months developing dishes with chefs Jason Cummings and Dustin Hambrick. The pub books live Irish music and a courtyard lineup of local players, and Savannah Magazine readers voted it best pub in 2026.
Live music some nights. Go before the band starts if you want to talk.
