The 2025 Georgia Tour – John Tanner’s Barbecue Blog

With a day of gastronomic achievement under our belts (over mine), Keith McLendon and I started off Day 2 of my 2025 Georgia Tour with a conventional breakfast. We initially headed to Shroeder’s Market in Brunswick only to find that they had just closed the place in order to redo their business model. Sigh! Plan B turned out to be Sweet Mama’s on St. Simons Island at 98 Retreat Village.

It’s a nice sparkling clean place inside with seating, good coffee, a pastry display, and a list of breakfast sandwiches and pastries, pies, and cakes.

We both started off with a sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit.

Then Keith added a blueberry muffin for us to split, and I countered by adding a cinnamon roll for us to share.

Keith declared the sausage, egg, and cheese biscuit to be good, and I agree. The cheese melted beautifully, the egg was unexceptionable, and the sausage perked up after I added pepper, which I do reflexively. Oh, and the biscuit was fine.

On to the pastries. The muffin was moist and loaded with blueberries. I’m not a big muffin guy, but if all of them were this good I would be. On to the cinnamon roll, which I liked. Ken opined that it was a little chewy. but it’s not like he offered his share to me. I suppose it could use a little more cinnamon, but so could so many things. I even had cinnamon in chili, where iI; d thought it had no business at all, at Blue Ash and Empress, and I enjoyed it. 

That took care of my 2,000 calories for the day, and may not have been a great idea, as our next meal turned out to be an epic challenge. Meanwhile, if you’re in St. Simons you should give Sweet Mama’s a try. Apparently it’s now Keith’s choice for breakfast locally, which means that it’s the best option around. Get a breakfast sandwich and a pastry or two that we didn’t try, and let me know how it was.

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