Getting into the Southern comfort food in Savannah. The most interesting place we ate was The Grey, Savannah’s new hot spot. In a carefully preserved 1938 Greyhound Bus Station, there are authentic tiles where the “colored only” area forced black people to segregate while waiting for the bus during the Jim Crow (separate but equal) years. Fast forward to now, when the celebrated chef, who was raised as a black woman in the south, is serving up creative gourmet fare to any racial profile that walks in the door.
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- Boiled peanuts are strange – a soft, moist shell with a pinto bean consistency peanut inside.
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- Per John Wayne, “True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done.”
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- So we decided we MUST eat pralines. It had to be done!
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- Shrimp and grits – the “shrimp” are big down here!
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- The Pink House restaurant was a mansion in 1771. Mr. Haversham’s ghost frequents the downstairs bar.
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- Fried green tomatoes from Alligator Soul.
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- The Grey – fancy pants food in a diner.
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- Mike was intrigued by imagining how the waitresses could be air-conditioned!
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- Stepping on the well worn entryway.
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- The Grey Waiting Room, aka the bar, shakes up cocktails with fresh herbs and bitters
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- The inside of the Grey showing the bus gates.
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- Uh huh, that chicken did fall off the bone.
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