Shawndra Russell
Photography by China Fagan & Sara D’Eugenio

We combed the landscape of local eats, from upscale dining rooms in fine restaurants to small shacks serving comfort food on paper plates, to find our picks for Southern apps, entrees and desserts.

Sisters of the New South
The term Southern cuisine of course brings to mind certain items often considered comfort, stick-to-your-ribs food. However, the emphasis on “new” shows those traditional Southern dishes continue to have a place in the present and future of Savannah and cuisine worldwide. Loyal customers are also quick to give praise to their bread pudding, which, via Twitter, Visit Savannah’s Social Media Coordinator Amy Brock describes as “a win!” Savannah’s Jesse Blanco of Eat It and Like It adds, “Sisters of the New South for traditional” Southern eats.
2605 Skidaway Road, 912.335.2761, sistersofthenewsouth.com

North Beach Bar & Grill
With Tybee Beach just steps away, fresh is mandatory to keep guests and locals coming back for more. North Beach delivers by offering a seafood-heavy menu with Caribbean twists. Co-owner George Spriggs says that when they were planning their menu nearly 20 years ago, they aimed to blend Southern and Caribbean cuisine. “At that time, no one was doing this, yet we felt we had to present a menu familiar enough to locals to stay in the game. Thus we gathered items that represented the South and Lowcountry and put a Caribbean spin on them.” One favorite ingredient to use is crab, which creates their asparagus-n-crab dip, crab-n-artichoke dip and their crab cakes available as either an appetizer or sandwich. They make their crab cakes memorable by “using the most favorable meat of the crab, the claw, and adding the correct amount of citrus to bring out the flavor even more. Rather than bread crumbs we use Ritz crackers and then with the addition of six other ingredients we create one of our signature dishes,” Spriggs explains.
33 Meddin Drive, Tybee Island, 912.786.4442, northbeachbarandgrill.net

Read more in the October/November issue of South!