Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room
In 1943 a young Sema Wilkes took over a boardinghouse on Jones Street and began feeding lodgers Southern food served family-style. The lodging is gone but the lunch table is not ... guests are seated at large tables for ten and share the platters with strangers. It is lunch only on weekdays, dine-in only, and the house takes cash or checks, with an ATM on site. Savannah Magazine readers named it the 2026 winner for both fried chicken and Southern cooking.
- Address
- 107 W Jones St, Savannah, GA
- How to find it
- Join the line at 107 W. Jones Street. Doors open at 11.
- Website
- mrswilkes.com
- Cuisine
- southern
- Good to know
- Institution, Long Running, Signature Service, Founder Story, Accessible, Step Free Entry, Kid Friendly, Service Ritual, Group Friendly
- Verification
- Details researched October 6, 2026. Hours and offerings change, so confirm with the venue before visiting.
Good for
What people come here for, beyond what is on the menu.
Community submissions
No community submissions for Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room yet.
Discovery profile 11 of 17 readable
For whoever runs Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room. This is what a search engine or an AI assistant can currently read about the place. It is free, it is here whether the venue joins in or not, and it can be corrected any time.
- Street address on file: yes
- Neighborhood assigned: yes
- Phone number published: no A missing phone number breaks the last step of most local searches.
- Website on file: yes
- Hours published: no Hours drive the most time-sensitive question in local search.
- Cuisine or specialty described: yes
- Photography on file: yes
- Website reachable: pass HTTP 200
- Served over HTTPS: pass
- Structured data present: pass Declared: WebSite
- Declares a business type: fail A Restaurant, BarOrPub, or LocalBusiness type is what puts a venue into local answer sets.
- Page description written: fail The description is what gets quoted when a search engine or assistant summarizes the venue.
- Menu linked from the homepage: fail A menu behind a PDF or an image is invisible to every system that reads text.
- Hours published on site: fail Hours are the most time-sensitive fact in local search and the most commonly stale.
- Address published on site: pass
- Social profiles linked: pass instagram.com, facebook.com
- Open to AI crawlers: pass No AI crawler is blocked in robots.txt.
Website checks last run October 6, 2026 against the venue's own site.
Run this place? If we have you filed wrong, or we are missing what you most want to be known for, tell us. It is free and it stays free.