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Built in what was once a segregated bus terminal, The Grey is a destination restaurant that defies preconceived notions about Southern cooking. Its partners' conversations about race have become a book: "Black, White, and The Grey."
Race, restaurants and the messiness of friendship John O. Morisano and Mashama Bailey. (Marcus Kenney) Jan. 23, 2021 6 AM PT Print When the Grey opened in Savannah, Ga., late in 2014, the national food media instantly latched onto the restaurant’s unlikely origin story: New York venture capitalist and first-time restaurateur John O. Morisano purchased a once-grand former Greyhound bus depot that operated until 1964. Pre-renovation, he could see where waiting areas and restrooms had been marked as clearly segregated. His search for a chef — specifically, he had decided to find a B...
Marcus Kenney + Ten Speed Press The Grey opened in Savannah, Georgia, in 2015. It was promptly named one of Esquire's Best New Restaurants. Five years later, we called it one of the most influential restaurants of the 2010s. Then, in the midst of the pandemic, we named it one of 100 restaurants America cannot afford to lose. Why this fandom for the Grey? In part, the food, which is incredible. And in part because a Black chef and a White restaurateur who didn't know each other all too well took over an old Greyhound bus terminal on Savannah's Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard that had once s...