Friday, March 14, 2008

Classy wine lounge now open in Drayton Tower

The Roman god of wine has found a home on Liberty Street. Bacchus Wine Lounge opened last weekend on the ground floor of Drayton Tower. For owner Brian Kight, it's the culmination of nearly 20 years in the bar and restaurant business.

A Dublin, Ga., native, Kight worked in Athens and then in California before moving here eight years ago.

A confessed "Georgia boy," Kight told me he just felt the need to be closer to home. "I got too deep of roots," he laughed as we chatted a few days ago across Bacchus' exceptionally comfortable bar.

Once Kight decided to move back to Georgia, Savannah seemed an obvious choice even though he didn't know anyone who lived here at the time.

He was especially attracted to the city's walkability. "There aren't a lot of cities like that," he said.


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