{"id":279,"date":"2010-04-28T02:03:31","date_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:03:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/?p=279"},"modified":"2010-04-28T02:06:13","modified_gmt":"2010-04-28T02:06:13","slug":"thumbs-up-alligator-soul-restaurant-savannah-ga","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/2010\/04\/28\/thumbs-up-alligator-soul-restaurant-savannah-ga\/","title":{"rendered":"Thumbs Up: Alligator Soul Restaurant, Savannah GA"},"content":{"rendered":"

Everyone raves about Mrs. Wilkes, but I thought the better Southern meal experience–though definitely Nouvelle Southern–could be had at Alligator Soul<\/a>, just a few blocks away from Mrs. Wilkes. It’s located at 114 Barnard Street near the Historic District, in a nicely renovated cellar location–a repurposed granary with windows shaped like eyes, an architectural design that was once believed to create mojo to keep pests and thieves away.<\/p>\n

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The Walls Have Eyes<\/p><\/div>\n

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Fried Green Tomatoes, Nouvelle Southern Style<\/p><\/div>\n

The amuse-bouches of truffled ground beef in a beignet crust and the ancho-honey corn muffins were fantastic, as were the house salad with sundried tomatos, stone-fruit, and goat cheese and the fried green tomatoes appetizer with chipotle mayo and sweet pepper relish.<\/p>\n

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Samuel, Soft Shell Crabs<\/p><\/div>\n

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Beignet Chicken<\/p><\/div>\n

For mains, Samuel had the soft-shell crab and I had a beignet-crusted Southern chicken breast with a sweet\/spicy dried peach bourbon reduction;\u00a0 they were bursting with wonderful combinations and the portions are quite large for a gourmet restaurant (of course, this is The South.)<\/p>\n

The menu changes frequently depending on what’s fresh in the marketplace, and the combinations are inspirational–one of the few meals I’ve had in the past couple years where I’ve stopped mid-mouthful to savor in amazement at the complexity of the flavors.\u00a0 They offer chef’s tasting menus and wine flights for foodies. \u00a0Full bar, good wine list, and a great experience.<\/p>\n

The couple next to us wasn’t happy however–their mashed potatoes were cold and there was some problem with their coffee–but they were a little older and I think expecting something conventional.<\/p>\n

Anyway–highly recommend it. \u00a0Reservations are necessary; it’s definitely the hot joint in Savannah these days. \u00a0Oh, and the chocolate pecan pie with butter toffee ice cream was divine, y’all.<\/p>\n

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Give me li'l sugar.<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Everyone raves about Mrs. Wilkes, but I thought the better Southern meal experience–though definitely Nouvelle Southern–could be had at Alligator Soul, just a few blocks away from Mrs. Wilkes. It’s located at 114 Barnard Street near the Historic District, in a nicely renovated cellar location–a repurposed granary with windows shaped like eyes, an architectural design […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,4,13],"tags":[17],"class_list":["post-279","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-food","category-places","category-thumbs-up-places","tag-savannah-foodies"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=279"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":294,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/279\/revisions\/294"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=279"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=279"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rudolphparty.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=279"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}