Tybee Restaurant Week 2026: Dates, Participants, and How to Plan Your Visit

Eight stretches of Tybee Island are about to get busier than usual, in a good way. From August 3 through August 17, eight local restaurants, cafes, and bars — spread from the pier down to the south end — are running Tybee Restaurant Week specials. No tickets, no cover charge, no reservation app to fight with. You show up, order the Restaurant Week item, and eat.

This isn't Savannah's Restaurant Week, which runs a single citywide price point twice a year and pulls a day-trip crowd from the whole region. Tybee's version is smaller and looser: a two-week window where island businesses each do their own thing, organized by Tybee Island Main Street, the nonprofit that also handles the town's holiday lighting and a good chunk of its small-business promotion. If you're on the island for any part of those two weeks, here's what to know before you go.

The basics

What "Restaurant Week" means on Tybee

Here's the thing to understand going in: there's no printed $30-and-under menu, no wristband, no central checklist you tick off at each stop. Tybee Island Main Street coordinated eight local businesses to each build something specific for the two weeks — a signature dish here, a specialty cocktail there, a prix fixe menu somewhere else. That looseness is a feature, not a gap. It means every stop on this list is showing off something they actually want to be known for, rather than filling out a template designed for someone else's restaurant.

It also means the eight participants cover more ground than a typical restaurant week. This isn't eight versions of "$35 for three courses." It's a supper club, a sports bar, an oceanfront restaurant, a pizza spot, two coffee shops, an ice cream institution, and a casual bar and grill — morning through last call, covered.

Weekdays during the two weeks tend to be the calmer version of this event. August is already peak season on Tybee, so weekend evenings at the more popular stops — Sea Wolf Tybee, Windrose, Nickie's — will have some wait built in regardless of Restaurant Week. If your schedule has any flexibility, a Tuesday or Wednesday dinner gets you the same specials with more room to actually enjoy them.

The eight stops, from the inn outward

We're at 1501 Butler Avenue. Here's how the list lays out relative to that, closest first.

Nickie's 1971 Bar and Grill (1513 Butler Ave) is, for practical purposes, next door — same street, twelve house numbers down. It's a sports bar with karaoke, pool tables, darts, and a menu built around wings, crab legs, pizza, hand-cut fries, and Philly cheesesteaks. Daily lunch specials run Monday through Friday, with happy hour 4–7 PM those same days. Open until 3 AM most nights, which makes it the easy late call.

The Deck Beachbar and Kitchen (404 Butler Ave, inside the Beachside Colony Resort) is about 1.5 miles up Butler — Tybee's only oceanfront restaurant, on Mid Beach. The menu blends Australian, coastal Mexican, and Hawaiian influences: fish and chips, buffalo wings, beachside cocktails. Lunch and dinner daily, weekend brunch, no reservations.

Past those two, the rest of the list clusters at the south end — Tybrisa Street, 1st Street, Inlet Avenue, Campbell Avenue — a several-block walk from Butler, not a next-door stroll. Worth the trip, but plan for it rather than assuming you'll wander over between naps.

Windrose (19 Tybrisa St), half a block from the pier, serves affordable American bar food — fried fish, fried prawns, patty melt, burgers, crab cakes, most of the menu in the $8–20 range. Open late (Mon–Sat 11am–2am, Sun 12pm–2am) and genuinely locals-loved.

The Surfing Goat (15B Tybrisa St) is a coffee-and-bagel shop with a jam-band streak — drinks named after Billy Strings and Jerry Garcia Band songs, bagels steamed then toasted so they're crispy outside and soft in the middle, gluten-free options on the menu. Open Thursday through Sunday, 7 AM to 2 PM only.

Sea Wolf Tybee (106 S Campbell Ave) is the most ambitious kitchen on this list — a supper-club-style restaurant with a 1960s-steakhouse-inspired à la carte menu built on hyper-local ingredients: Tybee Oyster Co. salt bomb oysters, Georgia wild-caught shrimp, Chatel Farms beef tenderloin. It also serves sausages and vegan options. No reservations, open Monday–Friday 4–10 PM and weekends 11 AM–10 PM, with weekend brunch 11 AM–3 PM.

Farace's Finest (1605 Inlet Ave) makes all its dough and marinara in-house and finishes every pizza with fresh-grated parmesan reggiano. It's to-go only — no inside seating — but the patio is one of the best on the island and it's still expanding. Dog-friendly. Closed Tuesdays; open Monday and Wednesday through Saturday, 11:30 AM–9 PM. We liked this one enough to give it a full write-up — see our Farace's Finest spotlight closer to the end of Restaurant Week.

Sand Cat Coffee (602 1st St) is a cat-themed independent café, open all seven days, pouring coffee and tea roasted by local roaster PERC alongside ice cream and baked goods from Auspicious Bakery.

Sugar Shack (301 1st St) has been a Tybee institution for more than fifty years — it started as a walk-up summer ice cream stand and is now open year-round. Pet-friendly, with ice-cream-cone-shaped outdoor seating. Hours run roughly 8 AM to 9 PM, later on Friday and Saturday.

For the full rundown on each with more of a "why go" angle, see 8 Places to Hit During Tybee Restaurant Week. If you'd rather have it laid out hour by hour, our Restaurant Week weekend itinerary weaves several stops into a normal Saturday and Sunday on the island.

Planning a visit across the two weeks

None of the Tybee Lodging Group properties — us included — serve breakfast on-site, so mornings are actually the easiest slot to fill during Restaurant Week. The Surfing Goat and Sand Cat Coffee both do double duty here: real coffee, real food, and both count toward the event.

A sensible way to spread it out over fifteen days without turning your trip into a restaurant crawl:

First day or two: Nickie's is next door — an easy first or last-night dinner without needing to drive or plan around it. If you're on Mid Beach at all, The Deck covers lunch with an actual ocean view.

A morning in the middle of your stay: Walk or bike down to the south end for Surfing Goat or Sand Cat Coffee, then keep going — Sugar Shack for an afternoon ice cream, Farace's for a pizza on the patio (bring the dog if you brought the dog).

One reservation-free evening: Sea Wolf Tybee or Windrose. Neither takes reservations, so build in a little slack and arrive a bit earlier than you'd normally think to.

You don't need to hit all eight to get the value out of the two weeks. Four or five, spread across a multi-night stay, gets you a real cross-section of what Tybee's food scene is doing right now.

Parking during Restaurant Week

Tybee is metered island-wide in season — $4 an hour through the Park Tybee app, no exceptions for special events. Restaurant Week isn't July 4th; you won't be fighting for a spot at 2 PM the way you would for fireworks. But August is still peak season, and the south-end cluster shares parking with the pier and the beach crowd on weekends. If you're walking from the inn, you can skip the meter question for Nickie's entirely — it's a two-minute walk. For the south end, budget a few minutes to find street parking, or just walk it; it's a flat fifteen-to-twenty-minute stroll down Butler Avenue on a nice evening.

Where to stay

We're one block from the beach and one block from the Tybee Pier, and Nickie's is close enough that you could smell dinner from the front desk. That puts a couple of the Restaurant Week stops — Nickie's, and a short drive or long walk up Butler to The Deck — genuinely close. The other six sit in the island's south-end cluster, a several-block walk or a five-minute drive. Not a hardship, but not a stumble-out-the-door situation either — worth knowing before you commit to walking it twice in one evening.

If you're staying more than a couple of nights, our Long Weekend offer — three nights or more, 15% off — pairs well with working through several of the eight stops instead of cramming them into a single evening.

What else to do those two weeks

Restaurant Week runs alongside everything else Tybee does in August: full beach days, the pier, a walk out to the lighthouse at the north end, Fort Pulaski fifteen minutes by car. None of that changes for Restaurant Week — it's a reason to add dinner plans to a schedule you'd probably have anyway.

A few ways to fill the daytime hours around your Restaurant Week stops: a dolphin tour in the morning before the beach gets crowded, the 178-step climb at the Tybee Island Light Station if you haven't done it, or an afternoon at Fort Pulaski National Monument if you want a couple of quiet, shaded hours away from the sun. Golf carts are the easiest way to cover ground between the pier area and the south end in August heat, and they're worth reserving ahead in peak season since the local fleets go fast. Our things to do guide covers the rest of the island if you're building out a longer stay, and our dining guide has the full year-round restaurant list beyond just these eight.

Admiral's Inn is part of the Tybee Lodging Group family of inns. If you're weighing where to stay across the island, our sister properties are worth a look too: Sandcastle Inn, Sea and Breeze Hotel and Condo, Dunes Inn & Suites, and Atlantis Inn — each with its own spot on the island, all an easy trip to any of the eight Restaurant Week stops.

Planning your stay for Restaurant Week? Check availability here — we're one block from the beach and a couple of house numbers from Nickie's.