For Chef G. Garvin, City Eats: Savannah began as a food tour and quickly revealed itself as something far richer. The James Beard Award–nominated chef told BOSSIP that what he found in the city’s kitchens and backstreets felt like a hidden archive of Southern migration and Black ingenuity waiting to be documented.
“I was surprised by the food culture in Savannah,” Garvin said. “Once you get there, you realize there’s a really good spirit of food, a really good culinary lead. It kind of felt like a little bit of Charleston, a little bit of Charlotte, a little bit of old Atlanta.”
That revelation drives the new season of City Eats, which premiered September 4 and airs Thursdays at 8:30 p.m. ET on aspireTV. Each episode serves as a passport to the city’s past and present—proof that Savannah’s story is bigger than any guidebook.
Garvin created City Eats as more than a travel show. He built it as a counterweight to an industry that often treats Black chefs as afterthoughts. Before the cameras rolled, he was already thinking about who gets to tell food stories on national television…