5 Can't-Miss Bites In Savannah, Georgia

Hey y’all! I’m Alex Apatoff, PEOPLE’s senior style editor. You’ll have to forgive my fake Southern accent, but after visiting Savannah, Georgia for the first time, it’s a little hard to resist. Also hard to resist? The amazing food jam-packed into a not-very-big city. I happened to be visiting during theSavannah Food and Wine Festival, so in honor of the city’s celebration of all things delicious, I chronicled the five best things I tried. Believe me: This was not an easy decision. You should probably go visit to judge for yourself.

Ice Cream atLeopold’s:My husband and I are ice cream fanatics — he even proposed at the Chinatown Ice Cream Factory in N.Y.C. So needless to say, we take our frozen treatsveryseriously, and Leopold’s definitely lived up to the hype. He got butter pecan, while I tried the Chocolate Chewies & Cream (made from a traditional Savannah cookie called a Chocolate Chewy) and it required restraint not to go back for seconds. Almost as delicious? The adorable soda fountain setting, which incorporates many of the fixtures (and original recipes) from the first Leopold’s, which closed in 1969.

See anything you’ve got to try? Any Savannah favorites I missed? Share them below!

—Alex Apatoff

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