Weekend in Savannah: 48-Hour Itinerary
Savannah, Georgia — updated August 22, 2026
Seven Savannah places worth building a two-day visit around, with the hours, closed days and ordering details that decide whether you get in.
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Planning two days in Savannah is mostly a scheduling problem. Several of the city's best-known kitchens serve lunch only, close on Mondays and Tuesdays, or run on a pop-up calendar, so an itinerary built on assumptions falls apart fast. The list below runs from the most settled reputations to the newest, with the hours and rules that matter for each.
1. Mrs. Wilkes Dining Room
This is the anchor of most Savannah weekends, and its 4.8 rating across 3,272 reviews makes it the most thoroughly tested place on the list. Lunch is served family style at communal tables on West Jones Street, listed hours run 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., and the menu changes daily: fried chicken, sausage, beef stew and meat loaf rotate through the seasonal lineup, with vegetables alongside. Two rules to plan around. It is dine-in only, with no takeout, and it is closed on St. Patrick's Day, Memorial Day, the 4th of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving and Christmas. Pricing is a flat $35 per person for ages 13 and up, tax included, and $17.50 for children 12 and under.
2. Urban Deli
The most useful daytime stop in the itinerary, because it is open every day and keeps the longest hours of anything here: 9 a.m. to 8 p.m. Monday through Thursday, 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday, and 9 a.m. to 7 p.m. Sunday. A 4.9 rating over 1,692 reviews is unusual at that volume, which makes it the safest bet on the list for a meal that has to fit around a tour or a walk. The kitchen makes sandwiches, salads, soups and pastries daily, with coffee, lattes and chai. There is a sandwich and salad combo at $18, and a Greek salad at $7.50. It sits on Habersham Street, an easy walk east of the squares.
3. Al Salaam Deli
A 4.7 rating across 1,137 reviews is proven rather than promising, and that volume is the argument for putting this Habersham Street restaurant on a short weekend. It sits farther south than Urban Deli, closer to the Thomas Square end of the corridor, which makes it a reasonable pairing with anything in the Starland area rather than a downtown stop. The brief does not carry menu or hours details, so call or check before making it the plan for a specific meal. Treat it as the neighborhood dinner option that locals have voted on at scale, not as a place to arrive at without a look at current hours.
4. Auspicious Sandfly
The breakfast solution, if your Saturday starts early and you have a car. Auspicious Baking Co.'s Sandfly location on Skidaway Road opens at 7 a.m. Wednesday through Sunday and closes at 3 p.m., which means it works for a morning pastry run but not for dinner. It specializes in hand-crafted breads and pastries and now runs a full-service coffee bar. The menu has included a cream cheese danish, a pear and almond croissant, an apricot basil croissant loaf, ham and cheese, and smoked salmon. A 4.8 rating over 675 reviews is a solid, settled record. Note that it is closed Monday and Tuesday.
5. Service Brewing Co.
The evening slot. Service Brewing sits on Indian Street on the western edge of downtown and holds a 4.8 across 670 reviews, enough to call the rating settled. Hours favor weekend visitors: noon to 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 12:30 to 6 p.m. Sunday, 4 to 9 p.m. Wednesday and Thursday, closed Monday and Tuesday. The taproom rotates its own beers, with a current menu posted and a back catalogue of past batches. Reviewers point to board games and live music on site. A Sunday afternoon visit ends early, so plan the Sunday pint before dinner rather than after.
6. Kava House
Listed as a bar at 1915 Bull Street, in easy reach of the Starland corridor, with a 4.9 rating from 293 reviews. That is a strong score on a moderate sample: promising rather than proven, but consistent enough to be worth a stop on the second night. The brief carries no hours or menu detail for it, so this is one to check the day of rather than build an evening around. Slot it in as the walk-to option after dinner on Bull Street rather than as a destination that justifies a drive across town.
7. SlowFireBBQ
The newest entry and the one with the thinnest record: 4.9 from 47 reviews, which is encouraging but not yet settled. It also has the most restrictive schedule here, open 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Thursday through Saturday and closed Sunday through Wednesday, so it fits a Saturday lunch and nothing else on a standard weekend. The operation runs a pop-up schedule alongside its Waters Avenue address, with past specials including brisket, brisket cheesesteaks, dino beef ribs and smoked oxtails. Check the posted pop-up calendar before driving over, since the location can move.
What we left off
Bitty & Beau's Coffee on West Congress Street was in the previous version and has been cut. It rates 4.8 across 792 reviews and the Savannah shop is open daily, but it is part of a multi-state coffee company rather than a Savannah business, and this guide sticks to independents.