Savannah Neighborhoods

Historic District North 52 spots The top half of the old city, from Bay Street down through the squares to about Liberty Street. Most of the hidden rooms are here: a bar down a back lane, a tavern in a cellar, a speakeasy behind a bookcase. Nearly all of it sits inside the to-go cup zone. River Street 13 spots The cobblestone street at the water, below the bluff. The old cotton warehouses hold seafood rooms, pubs and rooftop bars now. Olympia Cafe closed here after more than 30 years, and the family opened Limani a few blocks east in July 2026. Broughton Street 13 spots Downtown's main shopping street. Look down as well as up: there are duckpin bowling lanes in the basement of the old Woolworth's. The Ordinary Pub, in another basement here, never reopened after its building failed in Hurricane Helene. City Market 11 spots Four blocks around Ellis Square with live music most nights. The doors open onto several different streets, so a place can be in City Market and have a Congress Street address. Historic District South 16 spots The quieter squares and Jones Street, running down to Forsyth Park. The line outside Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room forms here every morning, and Crystal Beer Parlor has been pouring at Jones and Jefferson since the 1930s. Victorian District 9 spots The blocks around the south end of Forsyth Park. A veterans' post here has a bar anyone can drink in, with a diner inside the same building and a natural foods market next door. Starland District 35 spots Bull Street south of the park, where a lot of the newer cooking is. Starland Yard is a food park with three kitchens and rotating trucks. The area has turned over fast: Back in the Day Bakery, Starland Cafe and Squirrel's Pizza have all closed, and new rooms took each space. Midtown 8 spots 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. Habersham Village 4 spots A small shopping strip on Habersham Street in Midtown. Bella's Italian Cafe has been here since 1993, and a burger shop on the same block posts hours until five in the morning. Ardsley Park 1 spot A leafy Midtown neighborhood of older houses, with a Greek kitchen and market on Habersham Street. Kensington Park 1 spot A Midtown neighborhood along Abercorn Street. Eastside 5 spots Waters Avenue, Skidaway Road and East Victory Drive, east of the park. This is where Trick's BBQ landed on its third address in two years, and where locals send you for fried chicken. Eastern Wharf 3 spots The east end of the riverfront, with new hotels at the water and The Pirates' House on the old Trustees' Garden. West Downtown 2 spots The west edge of the old city along Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard. The Grey is in a restored 1938 Greyhound bus terminal, and a veteran-owned brewery is a few blocks away. West Savannah 1 spot The neighborhoods west of downtown. The only fully vegan kitchen we found open in Savannah is here. Southside 9 spots The Abercorn Street corridor and the neighborhoods around it, south of DeRenne Avenue. It is strip centers and long drives, and it is where locals said to go when someone asked for the best places that are not chains and not downtown. Sandfly 5 spots A crossroads on the way out to the islands. Readers voted its barbecue the best in the city in 2026, and its deli the best for sandwiches. Thunderbolt 4 spots A small town of its own on the Wilmington River, where the shrimp boats dock. Desposito's, the fish shack under the bridge, shut in December 2025 and reopened the next month. Wilmington Island 5 spots A residential island on the road to Tybee, with its places strung along Johnny Mercer Boulevard. Whitemarsh Island 3 spots The first island out on US 80. A steakhouse in a strip center here beat the downtown chophouses in the 2026 readers' vote. Tybee Island 25 spots Savannah's beach, at the end of US 80. The ocean side has the pier and the beach bars. The Back River side is quieter. A lot of locals said the best seafood is before you even cross the last bridge.