I’m not sure which comes first as you’re driving down Wheaton Street. Whether you catch the smell of hickory smoke or see it drifting into the sky. But one way or another, you know you’ve arrived. Then you notice the line. People waiting to order, others picking up takeout, all standing patiently because they already […]

“I like to do things I don’t really know how to do very well. It puts me in an uncomfortable feeling. That’s when you’re learning.” “I’ve got friends who are retired and friends who aren’t, and I almost can’t tell the difference.” It’s one of those observations that stops you for a second.   Trusted […]

Wondering what to do this week, but tired of hopelessly sifting through event websites and online calendars? Well Savannah Made Simple has done the hard work for you, and curated the best of what is happening in Savannah this week. District live Book Tickets   Michael Jackson’s music gets a completely different treatment at District […]

Madison Ryann Ward remembers the first audiences she ever had. They were not sitting in theater seats or standing beneath stage lights. They were girls on her sports teams, lying in sleeping bags after a long day at camp, waiting for the room to go dark. “I distinctly remember being at a basketball camp,” Ward […]

Ashley Simeone is sitting in Municipal Bar talking about flavor, but the longer she talks, the more obvious it becomes that flavor is only part of the thing. The drink matters. The texture matters. The cold glass, the lemon oil, the bubbles, the herbs, the salt, the snap of something bright against something fatty. She […]

The first time Andy Barrow tried explaining what he was building, I didn’t completely get it. I wanted to. I knew enough to know it sounded interesting. A replica of Forsyth Fountain. Months of work. Advanced scanning technology. Local stores beginning to carry them. But some things are easier to understand once they’re sitting in […]

I told Mashama Bailey that I didn’t want a drink. That was a lie. It was three o’clock in the afternoon, I had yoga later that evening, and I was trying to make at least one responsible decision that day. So when one of America’s most celebrated chefs asked if I’d like a cocktail, I […]

Thank you, Enmarket Arena. You changed Savannah. 5 years ago, if you wanted to see a major concert, you got in the car. Atlanta. Jacksonville. Maybe Charleston. You sat in traffic, fought parking garages, and eventually found your seat somewhere inside a massive building that never felt connected to where you lived. Then you showed […]

Hannah Dasher has the kind of voice that makes people turn around before they even know why. Part of it is the sound. Part of it is the timing. But a lot of it is that she still feels unmistakably Southern in a way that cannot be manufactured. Not softened for mass appeal. Just fully, […]

There is a moment when a coffee shop stops being a coffee shop. It becomes the place people drive past other places to reach. The place where the light feels right. The chairs feel considered. The team remembers how you take it. The room somehow knows what it is before you do. That is the […]

If You Want to Understand Savannah, Go to Fancy Parker’s Market at 1:00 AM. The interesting thing about Fancy Parker’s is not the food, the gas, or the little gift shop at the entrance. Most cities separate people. Savannah especially can feel compartmentalized sometimes. Tourists over here. Locals over there. SCAD students in their own […]

Brochu’s does not feel like a response to a trend. It does not feel like a restaurant trying to prove it belongs in a modern food city. It feels settled. Confident. Almost stubborn in its refusal to explain itself. Fried chicken, oysters, pies, and sides that taste like they have always existed, even though the […]

There is something satisfying about finding a place that feels hidden, even when it sits right in the middle of downtown Savannah. That is part of the appeal of The Peacock Lounge. Tucked beneath Flock to the Wok near City Market, Peacock Lounge feels removed from the noise above it. Most nights, you will spot […]

The interesting thing about BAZAAR by shopSCAD is not that it’s a store. Savannah has plenty of stores. The interesting thing is what is hanging on the racks. Walk through the space and you realize pretty quickly these are not pieces pulled from giant fashion houses or ordered from some corporate showroom trying to predict […]

Photos by Robin Maaya and Steve Vilnit/@SV_Images There is a moment when you eat a truly good soup dumpling for the first time where the whole thing feels mildly impossible. How did they get broth inside of this tiny folded pouch without it leaking everywhere? How is something this rich still this delicate? That is […]