Dreaming in Cookies: Modern General’s Dreamy Iced Coffee and Cookie Bar

The entrance of Modern General beckons pedestrians inside from Broughton Street with a chalkboard reading, "Treat Yourself to a Dreamy Coffee.” Once inside, Modern General invites patrons to write down their dreams on orange slips of paper and drop them inside the “dream box” on a table near the door. Modern General, or Modern General: Sylvester & Co, as the shop’s sign reads, is more than a coffee bar.They also sell a multitude of sleek “modern” gifts and housewares.

 I picked up a “USB Mixtape”  (a flash drive cleverly disguised as an audio cassette tape. The nineties child in me swooned, and I had to buy it).  

But the main event at Modern General is their coffee and cookie bar located in the back of the shop. Today I’m talking about their cookies, specifically. ( I didn't order coffee, as I’d just come from The Coffee Fox when I visited). They sell for $2.75 each, but let me assure you, they’re worth their weight in gold. The “dreamy” cookies are unlike any you can buy in Savannah.  

Double Dare Ya Cookie

First up, I tried the Double Dare Ya Cookie. This cookie was chock full of huge chunks of toffee, white chocolate, milk chocolate,  and dark chocolate.  The chunks were about the size of broken candy bar pieces, making it truly a chocolate chunk cookie. 

What is most remarkable about these cookies, and all the cookies at the cookie bar is how thick they are.  With a moist, just-chewy-enough-without-being-doughy  consistency, you’ll be scratching your head.  How is it possible to bake a cookie that thick without burning the outside? Magic?

Peanut Butter Chocolate

At the barista’s recommendation, I decided to try the peanut butter cookie on my second round (don’t judge). This cookie, equally as thick at the Double Dare Ya, differs from most traditional peanut butter cookies. 

The cookie is more of a traditional brown sugar chocolate chip cookie base with big blobs of peanut butter folded in.  This cookie definitely breaks the mold, if just by sheer magnitude and decadence.  I enjoyed every peanut buttery bite. Pure bliss.

As I left, happily buzzed on chocolate and peanut butter, I stopped to look inside the Dream Box. I contemplated the folded strips of orange paper where others had scrawled their dreams with black ink. 

What interesting dreams had I had lately? I didn’t know.  But I knew I’d be dreaming in cookies that night.

Sylvester & Co.

205 W Broughton Street
Savannah, GA 31401
Phone: 912-236-1150

Open 7 Days a Week  10am-6pm