Savannah

Here's a Cliff Notes version of some of my favorite places in one of my favorite places, Savannah, Georgia.

The Olde Pink House


(I’ve been here every trip to Savannah, a splurge, but always a great meal. In an old haunted pink mansion with a cool jazz bar in the basement.)



Ghost tour (always fun, been on one every trip to Savannah, totally different stories each time.)



Carriage tour or trolley tour (Nice if there’s time)



Kevin Barry’s (a must, right on the River Walk-good lager & pub grub, live Irish music some nights)



Pirate House (good southern food, cheesy tourist place, but interesting because it really used to be a pirates’ lair & slave holding area.)



Jack Leigh gallery (Nice if there’s time.  Affordable prints of his work.)



Savannah Candy Kitchen

225 E. River St. (great old-fashioned candy store)



Juliette Gordon Lowe house

(founder of the Girl Scouts, neat tour, haunted house)



Colonial Cemetery

(at the end of the Civil War, General Sherman’s men were holed up here-they desecrated graves-some stones were never relocated to their rightful owners & are lined up against a wall. Also, there’s a story of a man with giantism who was a social outcast & hung out in the cemetery. Several bodies of children were found at the cemetery & a lynch mob killed him. The next day, another child’s body was found at the cemetery. I saw red flashes of light here at night, would recommend going in the daytime.)



Misc.-the Forsythe Fountain is lovely, Monterey Square is where the Mercer House is (composer Johnny Mercer & the house used in Midnight in the Garden of Good & Evil); Chippewa Square was featured in Forrest Gump & has a cool Native American monument.



I would take a pass on Paula Deen’s The Lady & Sons, too crowded & touristy.



17hundred90 restaurant, bit pricey but good, haunted house.

Churchill’s Pub on Bay St., nice place to have a drink.



The Crab Shack

40 Estill Hammock Road

(This is on Tybee Island, about a 20 min. drive off the coast of Savannah, but if there’s time, it’s a fun place with great food, right on the ocean. I brought my PDD-NOS son to Crab Shack and he had a great time playing in the randomly placed sink, rinsing his hands over and over.  No one who worked there seemed to mind.)



Also on Tybee is Fort Jackson (haunted Civil War fort)



Hamilton-Turner B&B

330 Abercorn

(They have high tea in the afternoon, if there’s time.  Too many breakables and pretty things to bring the kids, though.)



Mrs. Wilkes’ Dining Room

107 W. Jones St.

(saw this on Rachael Ray’s $40 a Day – southern food served family style. Looks like they’re only open M-F, $16 per person, cash only, long line.  Long lines are very tough for ASD kids, so we usually skip this place.)



Molly MacPherson’s Scottish Pub-good Western European lagers & Tim had Scotch eggs for the first time.



Some bars I like: Moon River Brewing Co. on Bay St.

Sixpence Pub on Bull St.



Never done a riverboat tour on the Savannah River.