While looking at the Battery Backus article I came across the closing of one of Savannah, Georgia's best-known restaurants, the Crystal Beer Parlor at 301 West Jones Street this past Friday, October 24th.
Always a sad thing to see a place that old, dating back to 1933, close. Maybe someone will buy it and reopen the place. It had closed back in 2000, but reopened three years later with the current owners. However, business was down 25% and even with big crowds coming in on Fridays to see their in-house Dixieland jazz band, the Beer Parlor Ramblers, that was not enough.
Its web site at www.crystalbeerparlor.net referred to it as Savannah's Best Kept Secret and the city's last speakeasy. It was also one of the first places to serve alcohol at the end of Prohibition and the second oldest restaurant and oldest in the historic district.
The most popular item was crab stew with a cornbread loaf on the side.
Guess There Will Be No Crab Soup for Me. Too Bad. --Da Coot
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