It’s only been about a month since word came that the Asheville restaurant VegHeads was planning a Savannah location.
And the casual vegetarian restaurant is now open at 35 Whitaker St. in a narrow storefront just south of Congress Street. VegHeads is between the pizza place Sweet Melissa’s and the bar Hang Fire.
Over the weekend, I stopped by VegHeads (http://www.vegheadssavannah.com) for a good and filling baked falafel wrap ($7.25).
The menu features a variety of tempting and inexpensive wraps, sandwiches, salads and side dishes. There are plenty of vegan and gluten-free options.
VegHeads bills itself as the “healthy fast food alternative,” which seems a fitting marketing slogan given both the menu and the atmosphere.
With the counter and prep area to the left and a line of tables on the right, the narrow interior is designed for getting customers in and out.
Founded less than two years ago, the original VegHeads in Asheville is a drive-thru, but the menu and quick service should adapt well to the more urban setting here.
While many restaurants in Savannah offer real choices to vegetarians, few places are strictly vegetarian. I love The Sentient Bean’s veggie menu, but even that establishment has typically marketed itself as a coffeehouse.
So VegHeads really does bring something new to downtown. Perhaps the restaurant’s success will spur other entrepreneurs to try something even more ambitious.
VegHeads opens at 10 a.m. every day and closes at 10 p.m. on weekdays, at 6 p.m. on Sunday and at midnight Friday and Saturday.
We’re about to get a quick flurry of restaurants opening downtown in the coming weeks. I will check them out as fast as I can.
How will current political climate affect port funding?
With the sequester apparently taking hold, we’re going to see some significant reductions in federal discretionary spending in the coming weeks and months.
What does that mean for the long-planned project to deepen the Savannah River Channel so that it can handle larger ships after completion of the Panama Canal expansion?
Given the interstate rivalries over port infrastructure funding and the simple fact that federal money is getting scarcer, the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project would seem unlikely to get the needed federal backing right away.
It could be tough for Republicans in Georgia’s Congressional delegation to embrace the sequester and at the same time convince their colleagues and the White House to authorize over $400 million in additional federal spending on SHEP.
City Talk appears every Sunday and Tuesday. Bill Dawers can be reached via billdawers@comcast.net and http://www.billdawers.com. Send mail to 10 E. 32nd St., Savannah, GA 31401.