Best Brunch in Savannah
Savannah, Georgia — updated August 22, 2026
Savannah's late-morning eating happens in delis, bakeries and one famous boarding-house dining room rather than at bottomless-mimosa halls. Four places that reliably deliver, ranked by fit and by how settled their ratings are.
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Brunch in Savannah is less about prix-fixe eggs Benedict than about where you can walk in between 9am and 2pm and eat well without a reservation scramble. The strongest options sit outside the tourist core, in Habersham Street storefronts and out toward Sandfly, and several of them close by mid-afternoon. The four below are ordered by how squarely they answer the brunch question, with review counts as evidence of how settled each rating is.
1. Urban Deli
Urban Deli opens at 9am every day of the week, which makes it the most dependable brunch-hours kitchen on this list. It holds a 4.9 rating across more than 1,600 reviews, a figure large enough that the score is proven rather than promising. The menu runs to fresh sandwiches, salads, soups and pastries made daily, plus coffee, lattes and chai from the same counter. A sandwich-and-salad combo pairs a full sandwich with a side salad if you want the meal to stretch. Hours run to 8pm Monday through Thursday, 9pm Friday and Saturday, and 7pm Sunday, so a late start is not a problem.
2. Auspicious Sandfly
The Sandfly location of Auspicious Baking Co. is built for the 7am-to-3pm window: hand-crafted breads and pastries with a full-service coffee bar attached. It rates 4.8 across 675 reviews, a solid and reasonably settled record. The pastry case leans savory as well as sweet, with ham and cheese, smoked salmon, a cream cheese danish, an apricot basil croissant loaf and a pear and almond croissant among the items listed. It is closed Monday and Tuesday, which catches out visitors who assume a bakery keeps daily hours. Skidaway Road puts it a drive from the historic district, so plan the trip rather than wandering in.
3. Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room
Not a brunch menu in the eggs-and-mimosas sense, but Mrs. Wilkes serves an 11am to 2pm midday meal that occupies exactly the same slot. At 4.8 from more than 3,200 reviews, it has the most thoroughly tested rating in this guide. Service is family-style and dine-in only, with no takeout, and the menu changes daily around a seasonal rotation that can include fried chicken, sausage, beef stew and meat loaf. It is $35 per person for ages 13 and up, tax included, and $17.50 for children 12 and under. The dining room closes for St. Patrick's Day, Memorial Day, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas.
4. Al Salaam Deli
Al Salaam Deli on Habersham Street carries a 4.7 rating across more than 1,100 reviews, the kind of volume that makes a score trustworthy even when it sits below the 4.9s above it. Our research turned up the rating and the address but no menu or hours detail, so treat this as a well-liked neighborhood deli worth checking hours on before you go rather than a guaranteed brunch service. It is a short walk from Urban Deli, which makes the pair a reasonable plan B for each other if one has a line.
What we left off
Bitty & Beau's Coffee rates 4.8 from 792 reviews and keeps daily 9am-5pm hours downtown, but it operates locations in multiple states and falls under our no-chains rule. Service Brewing Co. is a taproom that does not open until 4pm most weekdays and 12pm on weekends, with no food menu in our research, so it is a brewery visit rather than brunch. SlowFireBBQ opens at 11am Thursday through Saturday and has strong early word, but 47 reviews is thin evidence and a rotating pop-up schedule makes it hard to recommend for a planned meal. Kava House holds a 4.9 from 293 reviews; it is listed as a bar and we found no menu detail, so we could not confirm it fits the brunch premise.