Best New GA Restaurant Dishes Out Local Faves: Southern Living

SAVANNAH, GA — What's that scent permeating the air? Smells like fried chicken, oysters, schnitzel and homemade french toast.

It must be coming from the South's best new restaurants. Southern Living recently released its list of the South's Best 2024 award recipients, including those for best new restaurants in each southern state.

This year, Savannah's Brochu’s Family Tradition took the honor in Georgia.

The winners were selected by Southern Living readers via a third-party agency, Proof Insights. The regional magazine said online voting took place last year from July 12-Aug. 23.

More than 20,000 people made nominations and voted in the publication's eighth annual contest.

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See what Southern Living had to say about Brochu’s Family Tradition:

"Husband-and-wife team Andrew and Sophie Brochu turned a vacant 1930s-era grocery store into a neighborhood restaurant that feels entirely of the moment. The menu focuses on 'fried chicken and fancy seafood,' two things that Savannah locals love. But don’t come expecting the classics. Here, The Whole Chicken Dinner comes with fried thighs, charred breasts, chicken salad, and gravy, plus chamomile spice, sunchoke hot sauce, biscuits and pickles. Oysters are prepared seven different ways, from raw with baja mignonette, yuzu green peppercorn sauce or cocktail sauce and lemon to jerk-style, with a Caribbean-spiced jam."

Brochu’s Family Tradition: 2400 Bull St., Suite 8

See the full list of Southern Living's Best New Restaurants 2024 here.