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The Best Savannah Food Tours for Grown-Ups
Savannah's squares were made for a slow walk between tastings, and its food runs from family-style Southern lunches to one of the country's most celebrated chefs. Here's the guided tour we'd book, and a self-guided day built from the tables we recommend.
- Daily walk
- Southern & Secret Food Tour, 3 hours, from $86.95
- Lunch tour
- First Squares Food Tour, from $89.95
- Happy hour
- Walktails & Bar Bites, Thursday-Saturday, from $96.95
- Self-guided
- Mrs. Wilkes' lunch and dinner at The Grey
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A guided food walk
Savannah Taste Experience runs the 3-hour Southern & Secret Food Tour daily, with the first tour at 11 a.m., from $86.95, with enough food for lunch. Its First Squares lunch tour is from $89.95, and Walktails & Bar Bites is a 2.5-hour happy-hour walk, Thursday to Saturday, from $96.95. Prices vary by season. Gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan diets can't be accommodated.
Savannah Taste Experience food tours
Historic District walking tours
Walking food tours through the Historic District. The 3-hour Southern & Secret Food Tour runs daily, with the first tour at 11 a.m., from $86.95 with enough food for lunch; the First Squares lunch tour is from $89.95, and Walktails & Bar Bites, a 2.5-hour happy-hour walk, runs Thursday to Saturday from $96.95.
Tip: Seafood and nut allergies, vegetarians and pescatarians can be accommodated; gluten-free, dairy-free and vegan diets can't.
Our self-guided food day
A day of eating in Savannah
Every stop is a place we already recommend; book dinner ahead.
Morning
Forsyth Park & Saturday farmers' market
Forsyth Park, south end of the Historic District
On Saturdays, the farmers' market at the south end of the park.
The city's great park and fountain. On Saturdays from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m. the Forsyth Farmers' Market fills the south end with 60-plus producer-only stalls.
Lunch
Mrs. Wilkes' Dining Room
107 W Jones St
Family-style Southern lunch at communal tables, weekdays only.
A Savannah institution: Southern dishes passed around communal tables, family style, at lunch on weekdays only (11 a.m. to 2 p.m.). About $40 a person.
Dinner
The Grey
109 Martin Luther King Jr Blvd
Mashama Bailey's cooking in the old Greyhound terminal.
Chef Mashama Bailey's restaurant in a restored 1930s Greyhound bus terminal, cooking Southern food with real depth. Bailey was named North America's Best Female Chef for 2026 by The World's 50 Best.
Nightcap
The Olde Pink House & Planters Tavern
23 Abercorn St, Reynolds Square
A drink by the fire in the Planters Tavern cellar.
Southern dining in an 18th-century mansion. Downstairs, the Planters Tavern cellar bar has fireplaces, the same menu and a pianist from 7:30 p.m.
More tables worth booking
Elizabeth on 37th serves fine coastal cooking in a 1900s mansion (closed Sundays), and The Wyld Dock Bar on the marsh is the place for shrimp and oysters by the fire pit.
Elizabeth on 37th
105 E 37th St
Fine coastal cooking and a deep wine list in a restored 1900s Southern mansion, open since 1981. Closed Sundays.
The Wyld Dock Bar
2740 Livingston Ave, on the marsh
A casual waterside seafood spot on the Turner Creek marsh: order at the counter, then settle in with local shrimp, oysters and a cocktail by the fire pit and bocce court. Boats tie up at the dock.
Husk Savannah
12 W Oglethorpe Ave
Chef Jacob Hammer's ingredient-driven take on coastal Georgia cooking, in an 1898 building on one of the city's reputedly most haunted blocks.
Our advice
- Mrs. Wilkes' serves lunch on weekdays only, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m.; plan your tour for another day.
- Book The Grey and Elizabeth on 37th well ahead for weekends.
- Check current tour times and prices before you go.
Everything on this page was checked on October 1, 2026. Tour times, prices and opening hours change, so confirm before you go.
Questions people ask
What is the best food tour in Savannah?
Savannah Taste Experience's Southern & Secret Food Tour: 3 hours through the Historic District, daily from 11 a.m., from $86.95, with enough food for lunch.
Is there a cocktail tour in Savannah?
Yes. Walktails & Bar Bites is a 2.5-hour happy-hour walking tour, Thursday to Saturday, from $96.95.
Where should you eat in Savannah?
Mrs. Wilkes' for a family-style lunch, The Grey and Elizabeth on 37th for dinner, and The Wyld Dock Bar for seafood on the marsh.