Heading East in my RV from Phoenix to Jersey. I'm stopping in Memphis and Savannah. Know any good restaurants? I know that have to have tons, but I am looking for personal favorites. thx beforehand
I assume you are looking for something along the river or adjacent in the historic district? If looking for southern family style food Paula Deans restaurant, The Lady and Sons in City Market is the one that gets the most tourist traffic. Mrs Wilkes Boarding House on Jones Street (America's most beautiful neighborhood) has better and more authentic southern style food but is only open for lunch and there is usually a line waiting for the family style seating. Spankys on River Street has really great chicken fingers. My favorite for crab chowder and other very good food is The Exchange Tavern on the river. The Six Pence Pub on Bull Street has really good and somewhat Britishy pub style food. Huey's also on river street serves great breakfasts. The takeout ElConquistador sandwich from Zunzi's has been rated as the third best sandwich in America. Savannah is full of restaurants.
Is there still that Cuban place down there? We had some great food there years ago but I can't remember the name. A couple of good pubs, and maybe a good Thai place as well. We are headed down for a girls weekend in a few weeks and I'm planning for the hearse tour as a definite! Man, is that fun!
Rancho Alegre on MLK? I have not been there. They used to be on Posey Street here on the southside and we ate there several times. I really liked the food but DW is not a fan of Cuban food. For Thai we go to Pad Thai also here on the southside. The noodle dishes are tasty but the roast duck is especially good. Pad Thai is affiliated with Fusion (also on the southside) which is trendier with higher prices and more Japanese food on the menu including very good sushi. For even better Sushi try Wasabis downtown on MLK or amazingly bargain priced Asian River in midtown. The hearse tour is goofy. Just keep in mind that before the movie "Midnight in the Garden Of Good and Evil" there were maybe a dozen "real" Savannah ghost stories. Now there are hundreds of silly ghost stories here. DD is a carriage tour driver. She can give a pretty good ghost tour but shares my doubts on the subject.
I don't know Savannah (but you've gotten feedback above) but I know Memphis pretty well if you're interested. Can you narrow it down by cuisine/price/part of town at all?Heading East in my RV from Phoenix to Jersey. I'm stopping in Memphis and Savannah. Know any good restaurants? I know that have to have tons, but I am looking for personal favorites. thx beforehand
I can recommend one BBQ restaurant right in Savannah that we enjoyed two years ago. It was recommended by a homeless guy I asked on the street in exchange for a dollar.. and he was right. Blowin' Smoke BBQ - Savannah, Georgia
It won some awards and rightly so, I thought.
There is also a place on the highway between Savannah and Charleston that had really good southern comfort food. It was called Hog Haven or Hog Heaven, I can't remember which and my Google-Fu is failing me at the moment. A real dump of a place (they had chicken wire strung around the "dance area"!) but man was the food amazing. Maybe one of the locals knows the place ?
And funnily enough, we stayed in Savannah right across the street from the Thunderbird at the Hampton/Hilton. Sure looked like a fun throwback kind of place.
And you never know which ones are organized campaigns (often restaurant employees) to create good/bad ratings. Especially these days with social media, easy to recruit lots of "reviews."I think you can go crazy reading reviews on those Yelp things, though--it would seem that people find the strangest stuff to complain about.
We used to eat at Blowin Smoke. Over the last year I think the quality of the food has declined a bit. Their MLK location has recently closed and they are in the process of opening in a new location on Habersham. Hog Heaven is on Pawleys Island north of Charleston. Maybe you were thinking of the the Pink Pig on hiway 17 in Levy SC?
The Pink Pig
It is a very colorful little place with excellent BBQ and seafood.
As a true southerner and longtime Savannah resident I am duty bound to hate chain restaurants but recently we have had really good BBQ and service at Sticky Fingers on Abercorn here on the southside.
Of course locals have their own preferences (and some undoubtedly hate ->), but the perennial favorites for BBQ/ribs are The Rendezvous (original downtown location) and Corky's (various locations), I prefer the former - unique atmosphere/story AND great