Frommer's Review
This is one of the hottest and most appealing restaurants in Savannah, with award-winning food; a high-ceilinged and airy space that emulates a hip urban restaurant in, say, New York; and a gloss of historic authenticity that's Savannah all the way. It occupies the top floor of an antebellum cotton warehouse that was used by Sherman's troops during the Yankee occupation of Savannah. Even if you drop in here just for a drink, we urge you to wander past the sprawling cocktail bar into the dining room, where -- adjacent to windows with high-altitude views over the Savannah River -- you'll find the restaurant's pride and joy. It's a map that was painted by Union troops directly onto plaster, showing their idea of the layout of the juxtaposition of Georgia with Tennessee and South Carolina. Today it's preserved behind museum-quality Lucite, a historic holdover within an otherwise postmodern setting.
Culinary hip commingles with Southern pride on this menu. Lunch features sandwiches that are more creative than that at many of its competitors. Dinner might include a pulled-pork eggroll with barbecue sauce, hot mustard, and peach chutney; fried green tomatoes with goat cheese and tomato chutney; and popcorn grouper, served in a movie-palace cardboard popcorn box, with rémoulade sauce. The best main courses include spicy wild Georgia shrimp over grits smothered in gravy made from andouille sausage and tasso ham (voted by a local newspaper as one of the 10 best main courses in Savannah); Black Angus filet mignon with roasted garlic demi-glace; and cornmeal-crusted grouper with citrus-flavored butter sauce and peach chutney.
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