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Hidden bar in savannah ga3/9/2023 The bar menu offered warm spicy peanuts ($3) and oysters ($2.25). ![]() (I’m happy to now know how to do this at home: Boil fresh ginger and brown sugar, mix in a blender, strain, add soda water.) The bartender said he didn’t have any bottled, but he offered to make me one with their house-made ginger simple syrup. I sat at the L-shaped bar: stainless steel with wood edging, distressed leather stools.įlipping through the magazines I’d found on an old wooden magazine rack (1930s Life and Time), I ordered a ginger beer. I arrived early to grab a drink at the front Diner Bar, a separate, four-booth section that during the Greyhound era was a 24-hour diner called the Union News Cafe. Eventually, she sacrificed her sous chef and protégé - Mashama Bailey, who spent some of her childhood in Savannah. Inspired by her moxie and certain she could help him find a chef, Morisano hounded Hamilton until she met with him. He then read “ Blood, Bones & Butter: The Inadvertent Education of a Reluctant Chef,” by celebrated chef Gabrielle Hamilton, owner of New York City’s Prune. Known as Johno, Morisano first fell in love with Savannah, then the building he bought it even before deciding he’d open a restaurant there. Another restaurant then occupied the space for a few years, after which it sat vacant, in disrepair, for more than a decade, until New York entrepreneur John O. The building is on a transitioning block of Martin Luther King Boulevard, between an art store and a SCAD building. The Grey opened in December and in mid-February was named a semifinalist for the James Beard Award in the best new restaurant category. Plus, I owed myself a nice meal after countless unremarkable ones on the road. Spirits of long-ago bus riders were calling. The blend of historic travel depot and good food was simply too alluring to pass up. I’d heard about a new restaurant in an old Greyhound bus terminal, and knowing little more about it, the Grey earned a spot on my itinerary. The port town in Georgia is home to old Southern buildings and gentlemen - and young, tattooed students at SCAD, the burgeoning Savannah College of Art and Design. ![]() Fifteen hundred miles into a road trip this winter, I found myself in Savannah.
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