For lunch, pull up a chair in Mrs. Wilkes’s Dining Room. A Southern grandmother’s sideboard reborn, it’s always filled with pillowy corn muffins, fried chicken, field peas, and other farm-fresh forage swimming in “pot likker.” Trust me, you’ll want seconds (they’re included in the price). You’ll share a communal table with strangers, but fret not—by the cobbler, they’ll be old friends. —Paula Wallace

Paula Wallace is the president and co-founder of the Savannah College of Art and Design