Eat It and Like It began in the summer of 2010, when co-founders Jesse Blanco and Senea Crystal created a blog to document the Savannah region’s food scene.  It was built on their own curiosity more than credentials, but also looking to answer an often asked question: “Where should we eat when we visit Savannah, Georgia?”

Nine months later, a television show was born. Within a year after that Eat It and Like It had secured its first of two EMMY nominations. They were off and running.

Sixteen years later, that idea has grown into a regional food media company. What started as a handful of restaurant write-ups is now a television show on WJCL-TV, a website with a loyal readership, an active email list, YouTube Channel and a social following that stretches across the country. Jesse Blanco has become known across the region simply as “the Food Guy” — not for polish, but for showing up, asking real questions, and telling people the truth about where to eat.  He’s written two books on great regional eats and has served as a judge for the James Beard Foundation.

The mission hasn’t changed since day one: find the food and the people worth knowing about, wherever a tank of gas can take us. That’s meant deep coverage of Savannah’s restaurant scene, but it’s also meant following the story outward — to Hilton Head Island, Bluffton, and Beaufort, and now into Florida with Eat It Florida, a new show built on the same idea: real places, real food, told by someone who’s actually been there and eaten and liked it.

In an era where everyone with a phone has a food review, Eat It and Like It remains the Savannah and Hilton Head Island region’s most trusted voice in food. 

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