Culinary Savannah Tour

Our tour on Tuesday morning wasn't until 11:15 so we all slept in a little bit and enjoyed a relaxing morning at The Mate Factor for breakfast!  We strolled down Jones Street where some of the most elaborate and large historic homes are located and were amazed at the architecture!  Also we saw a few more of the "squares" which were beautiful!

Here's one of the neat homes we walked by and I took this picture for Jessi - the house number was 1888!  I love the blue and purple together!


Our walking Culinary Tour started at River on the Rocks - we decided to split a drink while we were waiting for the rest to arrive so it arrived in a short glass to the tune of $14.00!!!  Guess we won't be ordering another drink there for a while!!

Our tour guide was a gal named Country and she was a hoot - kept us in stitches the entire tour with her southern accent and her stories!!

Our first tasting was right there at their restaurant and we had shellfish chowder - delicious!!

At Tondee's tavern we had shrimp and grits - Country told us the key to eating grits is to make them with lots of butter!  It was pretty darn good!  And remember the recipe to the punch that was on the place mat the first night we ate?  It was available to purchase at this pub so Patty and Teri ordered one - I took one sip and was certainly glad I didn't order one!!

As we were walking to our next pub, we walked by this "hat" shop - it SO reminded me of the hats that Southern Belles wear!!

At the Ordinary Pub, we had a pork belly slider with a key lime drop - again it was delicious!

We walked by a McDonald's (NO - we didn't stop there!!!) and it was a "walk through" instead of a "drive through".  Kind of unique!!

Next was the Scottish Bar where we had shepherds pie - pretty tasty!!

Our last restaurant stop was at Mabel's Cupcake Emporium - here's Country holding a plate of what we sampled - the frosting was extremely rich!

Our last two stops were "tastings".  First we went to a salt shop - I'd never been to one before and they had every kind of salt imaginable!!  We went to a special room and tasted 3 kinds of salts - actually there were 4 but I opted not to taste the last one as it was extremely spicy!!

And then we stopped back at the honey place and sampled honey once again!!

Did we walk a lot that day?  Yes, to the tune of 9 miles!!  But the day isn't over yet!!!