Emporium Kitchen & Wine Market
Savannah Restaurants > Emporium Kitchen & Wine Market
Review
Hotel restaurants, by and large, are easy to ignore. Most of them serve as glorified coffee shops, serving up fuel rather than food. But this delightful spot at the upscale Perry Lane Hotel is one you should pay attention to.
Start with the dining room, a light and bright space with big windows, high ceilings, lots of plants, and comfy furnishings. It’s a new building, but they’ve given the restaurant a vaguely old-time Savannah feel without being too on the nose about it.
They are open all day, serving brunch from 7am until 2pm, a bar menu in the afternoon, and then dinner at 5, all of which has a southern cooking flair.
Brunch temptations include breakfast items like house made biscuits and gravy, pancakes, French toast with peaches, and a pimento cheese omelet and lunch selections like a croque monsieur, a burger, shrimp and grits, and a few soups and salads.
The dinner menu features salads and starts like mussels or grilled lamb chops with salsa macha then moves into entrees like a filet, pan roasted salmon, and a divine bourbon brined pork chop with jalapeno creamed corn.
The bar menu in between is a smattering of options from the other menus.
Don’t forget dessert – the seasonal crème brulee is worth the price of admission.
Speaking of which, costs are on the high side but reasonable for the quality and quantity of what you’re getting. Figure $25 per person for brunch and up to double that for dinner depending on what you’re ordering.
Finally, a hotel restaurant worthy of not ignoring.