The Historic District's Modern Southern
Emporium Kitchen + Wine Market on Broughton Street is one of the rooms that has helped Savannah's Historic District move past the tourist-canon Southern restaurants and into more carefully-conceived modern cooking. The format combines a restaurant with a small wine retail operation.
The cooking is seasonal modern Southern: Lowcountry seafood, Georgia produce, considered protein cookery. The wine programme — sold in the attached market and corkage-friendly in the dining room — is unusually serious for the format.
What to Order
Lowcountry seafood in the day's preparation. Georgia produce as proper components. Wood-fired or grilled mains handled simply. The wine pairings rise to whatever the meal becomes.
The Wine Market
The attached wine market lets diners select bottles from a deeper retail list and bring them into the dining room — a format that gives Emporium one of the most flexible cellar programmes in central Savannah.
Best Occasion: First Date
Emporium is one of Savannah's quiet first-date rooms. The wine programme provides natural conversation; the Historic District location handles a post-dinner walk; the price point sits in the bracket where a return visit is genuinely possible.