The neighborhoods between Starland and the Southside, mostly houses with a room on a corner here and there. Locals on Reddit named a diner in a former laundromat here more than any other place in the city.
Barnes has cooked on Waters Avenue for over 45 years by its own count. It describes pit-cooked barbecue with a homemade secret sauce and fresh, regional Southern food prepared daily. It is a daytime room that closes at 4.
A brewpub that also distills. Hop Atomica says it makes its beer in-house from original recipes, 'from our dessert inspired fruited sours to the super dank Hazy IPAs', and distills small batch spirits on site. The 39th Street room is the Savannah home of a small group that now also pours in Statesboro, Richmond Hill and Louisville, Kentucky. Connect Savannah readers named it a finalist for best local spirits distillery in 2022.
Kayak Kafe is a Savannah pair, with this Midtown room at Paulsen and 66th and an older one downtown at 1 East Broughton. The kitchen says the food is made fresh daily with no preservatives or artificial flavors or colors, and that it gladly works around vegetarian, vegan and gluten-free diets. To-go containers are 100 percent compostable. Savannah Magazine readers voted Kayak best Salad, best Vegan and best Vegetarian in 2026.
Kool Vibes calls itself the home of the oxtail pizza, and says it sets Jamaican flavors beside familiar pizza and wings. BLKSAV describes brick-oven wings alongside the oxtail pie.
PERC is a Savannah coffee roaster, and the East Broad Street shop is the one it describes as 'where the magic happens.' The counter pours house drinks like the Good Times Latte and the Happy Camper, with pastries from Auspicious Baking Co. and breakfast sandwiches. Savannah Magazine readers named PERC runner-up for Coffee Roaster in 2026.
A breakfast and lunch diner on East DeRenne with an open kitchen; its own site leads with chicken and waffles. Locals name it for breakfast and, less expected, for a burger ... a bacon cheeseburger with a fried egg is one commenter's cure for a rough morning.
A Jamaican counter on Waters Avenue in Midtown. Locals on r/savannah name it first when someone asks for spicy food that is not Asian, and the meat patties come up as a comfort food.
A diner in a restored former laundromat at Paulsen and East Anderson, opened by the owners of Two Tides Brewing. It was the single most-named venue in the 2026 r/savannah threads read for this file. Locals bring up the breakfast burrito, the short rib hash bowl, catfish and grits, and a late-afternoon happy hour with one-dollar waffles ... and several also say the kitchen is inconsistent.
