Are you looking for restaurants in Greer, SC? Whether you’re looking for a restaurant to hold a business lunch or a casual place to bring the kids, Greer has lots of options. Check out this guide, organized by meal and category, to find the perfect restaurant! Did we miss your favorite? Let us know in the comments!
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If you are a fan of chains with country-style cooking, Josey’s Chuckwagon is a great locally-owned alternative! They have homestyle breakfast items, soups, salads, sandwiches, and country-style entrée items. Your family can eat out without having to rob a stagecoach, and if you dine out on Monday nights, kids eat for $0.99! Not convinced yet? They have delicious desserts and that alone is reason enough to go pay Josie’s Chuckwagon a visit!
While in town, check out our Guide to Taylors, SC for more things to do!
Owners: Leonard and Joy Wells
Do you have a kids menu? Yes
Do you have a kid’s eat free night? Yes – Kid’s night is on Mondays from 5:00 pm-8:00 pm and kid’s meals are .99 cent per paying adult.
What are your contactless delivery options? Curbside pickup, drive-thru, and third-party delivery
Do you offer outdoor dining? No
What makes your spot unique? Josey’s Chuckwagon is a family-owned restaurant located on Wade Hampton Blvd cooking up the best southern food on this side of town! Many people ask where the name “Josey’s” comes from. Our owner Leonard Wells was told that he had the demeanor of “The Outlaw Josey Wales.” Since then his nickname has been “Josey!”
What dish is the most popular?
The chuckwagon is one of our most popular dishes. It is a fried boneless pork fillet served with white gravy over it. It comes with your choice of any two sides, a bread choice, and a tea or lemonade.
What dish are you the proudest of?
Our shrimp and grits is one of the many dishes we are most proud of. It is available to order breakfast, lunch, and dinner.
It’s my first time at your restaurant, what do you suggest we order? The chuckwagon, chicken tenders, grilled pork chops, fried chicken breast, and shrimp & grits are a few of our customer favorites!
Where do you love to eat when not at work? El Matador Restaurant
Gifting Options: Gift cards
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We love Josey’s and eat there at least once a week! Awesome breakfast too! Very reasonably priced!
Sarah Brown Hamby
Josey’s Chuckwagon
6001 Wade Hampton Blvd
Taylors, SC
864.655.4373
Have you tried Poppy Popcorn? If you love popcorn and want to support a local small business, KAG contributor, Kristina, has just the place to get some delicious popcorn.
I love my kids dearly but I don’t want to share everything with them. I have to be pretty stealth when it comes to hiding my favorite snacks from them since kids don’t listen when you ask them to pick up their toys yet somehow hear the crackle of you opening a bag of snacks and come running from the furthest place in the house to get some of it.
For more local food, see our many stories on places to find local meat, eggs, bread, and other goodies.
(more…)When you think summer, do you think fresh fruits and veggies? KAG’s Kristina Hernandez does, and she’s bringing us the scoop on the Carolina Crate from Lowes Foods. You can get a tasty crate full of fresh produce weekly and put summer on the table!
Looking for other places to find fresh produce near Greenville, SC? We’ve got your ultimate list!
Have you heard about Wildflower Cupcake & Dessert Bar? Cupcakes are amazing little personal size baked goods that can turn your day around. Making amazing cupcakes for the lucky folks of the Upstate could have been enough to allow Local baker Kristen Kay to throw down her apron and call it a day. But for this small business owner, cupcakes and sweet treats are just a means to an end. Find out what Wildflower Cupcake & Dessert Bar does for the Upstate besides curing a cupcake craving!
Baking cupcakes allow Kristen to help people. Kristen is there to lend her talents to transform flour, eggs and sugar into fundraising efforts. Organizations like Let There Be Mom, Valor, The Booth Fairy, Asian Americans Advancing Justice, The Blood Connection, and others benefit when her piping bag get filled with frosting and a finished cupcake (or cookie) leaves the shop.
The way she helps also manifests in providing a person with sensitivities, or diet restrictions that would normally keep them from biting into a delicious cupcake, that opportunity.
One of the questions we get asked quite frequently at Kidding Around is where to find items for people, most often children, with diet restrictions. Every kid deserves a cake, right? Kristen makes every attempt to fill these orders that most places won’t.
Your child all of a sudden decides that Groundhogs day is THE NUMBER ONE HOLIDAY? Head to Wildflower for that celebratory cupcake to honor old Punxsutawney Phil.
If you’re not convinced you need a treat from here in your life yet, I have one more feel-good story for you.
Local floral & Veggie farm Wet Knot Farms suffered a terrible flooding incident in the Spring of this year. The community jumped in to help however they could. Unfortunately, the floodwaters made their edible items non-sellable. The good news is their flower crops made it, and now have a prominent spot in Wildflower Cupcake & Dessert Bar. Waiting in cases to go home with you and your delicious item.
Owners name: Kristen Kay
Do you have a kids menu?
No – it’s all kid-friendly
What are your contactless delivery options?
Curbside pickup
Do you offer outdoor dining?
Yes
What makes your spot unique?
In addition to our normal cupcake, and dessert bar options, we cater to kids and adults with special dietary needs. These are available for walk-in or special orders, and custom decorating is offered in most cases.
What dish is the most popular?
Strawberry Crush
What dish are you the proudest of?
Our carefully thought out and crafted variety of cupcakes, and our signature cookie sandwiches
It’s my first time at your restaurant, what do you suggest we order?
The Banana Pudding Cupcake, Strawberry Crush Cupcake, Chocolate Chip Cookie Sandwich, or Key Lime Cookie Sandwich
Where do you love to eat when not at work?
We’re an indecisive group, and enjoy so many local establishments! Smoky Dreams Barbecue is definitely one of those!
Gifting Options: Gift Certificates
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My friend bought me their gluten-free chocolate peanut butter cupcakes and they were some of the best things I’ve ever put in my mouth.
Alicia ByarsWildflower Cupcake and Dessert Bar is my go-to place for my daughter who has food allergies! They have been so accommodating & understanding in making “safe” treats for my daughter!
Jessica SammonsWildflower Cupcake & Dessert Bar
3730 Pelham Rd Greenville SC 29615 | 864.775.5554
Looking for more good places to eat? Here are the best restaurants in Greenville, SC!
If you’re searching for the perfect place to find local produce in Spartanburg, SC, then you’ll be delighted by the Hub City Farmers’ Market. You’ll find all kinds of local goodness, from produce to plants, from lovely vendors and makers from our community!
Looking for the most delicious, best burgers in Greenville, SC? Kidding Around Greenville readers have recommended their favorites giving you options for the tastiest burgers around town. If you find a burger you love based on this list, show us some love and let us know!
We asked where to get the best burgers and Kidding Around Greenville readers delivered big time. You guys really love your burgers! When I’m craving a burger, and believe me, if I wasn’t before writing this post, I am now, it’s all about the juicy center with gooey cheese melting over mushrooms, tomatoes, and onions with perfectly cut and seasoned French fries and a pickle. It’d be hard to find something more satisfying than a really good burger. And look no further than this list!
(more…)Vaughn’s Food Hall in Simpsonville, SC is a fantastic food hall and entertainment venue that literally has everything you need for a really fun, family night out (or date night!). We checked it out and have all the details on how to make Vaughn’s your family’s new go-to spot.
Located in downtown Simpsonville, SC, Vaughn’s Food Hall (previously the Warehouse at Vaughn’s) could not be more perfect. Honestly. There are multiple, delicious restaurants, a huge outdoor space with tables, a sand pit, and big area to play ball, nightly entertainment, and an easy, laid-back vibe that is ideal for relaxing with your family.
I’m going to go old school here and dare you to go and not want to go back the next week, and the week after that, and the week after that. It’s that good.
Vaughn’s Food Hall is a 2024 KABOOM Awards Winner for the Top 5 Date Night Spots in Greenville, SC.
Vaughn’s Food Hall is pretty much like the name suggests except cooler. The food hall is inside a big warehouse and consists of multiple restaurants and bars that have nearly any type of food you’re in the mood for.
Want pizza? Get some Humble Pie. Want a burger? Get a smash burger from Bourbon St. Burgers. Want fried cheese curds, a Patty Melt, or Loaded Nachos? Then the Grub Box is your spot. In the mood for a cold, craft beer? Try any number of them at the Taphouse. Or maybe you just want dessert? Yogi’s Cups & Cones is where it’s at.
The restaurants at Vaughn’s Food Hall are The TapHouse, Grub Box, Humble Pie Co., Tacos & Bla Bla Bla, Bourbon St. Burgers, Anchor Raw Bar, Yogi’s Cups & Cones, the Peanut Co., and Outlawed Ramen.
After dinner, head over to the Upstate Pinball Museum & Arcade and play all the games you want for just $10/person. No coins are required. You could easily spend a few hours here.
I love a good place where you can sit outside and where there is space for kids to get their energy out before and after dinner. That’s exactly what you find at Vaughn’s. The backyard has lots of tables with umbrellas that overlook a small stage and big, grassy area. That part literally looks like a backyard. It’s awesome.
There’s a small sand pit, soccer balls, a plastic baseball bat, and some other soft toys. My girls decided to make up a new game that combined baseball with a big, soft die that they used instead of a baseball. It was awesome and we saw other kids pick it up after we started eating. They are obviously trendsetters.
Vaughn’s has nightly entertainment like Music Bingo on Tuesdays, Team Trivia on Wednesdays, and our favorite, Kids Eat Free on Thursdays. For a current schedule, check the Vaughn’s Food Hall Facebook page — they usually post specials and a weekly schedule.
Vaughn’s was recently acquired by new owners, hence the new name. One of the changes they made was the ordering system. You use your phone to scan the QR codes throughout the Food Hall and on the outdoor tables, which pull up the menus on your phone. You start a tab and then just order everything – beer, wine, appetizers, entrees – right from your phone. You can even share your tab with other people (think responsible teens or for a party) to make payment easier.
Once you submit your order, you’ll get a text message confirming your order and then you’ll get text messages when the different parts of your order are done.
So, for example, I ordered a salad, fried cheese curds, and nachos from the Grub Box, a beer from the Taphouse, and a kids’ meal from Bourbon St. Burgers all on my phone. Everything came out pretty fast and I only had to make a couple of trips inside to pick up my orders, which were right on the counter at the restaurant.
It’s super easy and way, way better than waiting in line at each place, especially if everyone in your family wants to eat and drink at different restaurants. Waiting in line would take forever. But you don’t have to with this new system!
The ordering system currently works for all the restaurants within the Food Hall itself (a couple are outside but still part of the Food Hall), which are the TapHouse, Grub Box, Humble Pie Co., Bourbon St. Burgers, Anchor Raw Bar, and Yogi’s Cups & Cones.
There’s a water station right near The Grub Box as well, if you only want water and not any special drinks.
While I already mentioned this earlier, in case you missed it, Kids Eat Free on Thursdays with a paid adult meal. If everything you’ve already read isn’t reason enough to go to the Warehouse at Vaughn’s, let this be it.
Discover more Kids Eat Free options in Greenville, SC.
Be sure to check the website and Facebook page for current hours and events at the Fodd Hall. hat’s the best way to stay up-to-date on everything.
They have limited hours on Monday so check their website for details. Weekly standard hours are:
Tuesday – Thursday from 11 am – 10 pm
Friday and Saturday from 11 am – 11 pm
Sunday from Noon – 8 pm
Parking is behind the Food Hall, in front of it, and further in the back on the other side of Trade Street.
Vaughn’s Food Hall
109 W. Trade Street, Simpsonville
Vaughn’s Food Hall Website | Facebook
Check out more places you can eat & play in Greenville, and our huge guide to restaurants in Greenville SC.
Looking for food trucks near Greenville, SC? No matter what type of cuisine you are seeking, there is sure to be a food truck in the Greenville area that has something tasty to satisfy your hunger. Read all about Kristina’s love of food trucks and find a list of some of her favorites in this article.
For more great places to eat in Greenville, SC, don’t miss our Ultimate Guide to Restaurants Near Greenville, SC!
The advent of the modern-day food truck – a kind of hip repurposed truck that serves up amazing food on the go – can be traced back to Los Angeles in 2008 with the Kogi Korean BBQ truck. The idea of patrons buying food from a mobile unit wasn’t new but what was unique about Kogi, and others that followed their success, was the incredible food they served (Chef and founder Roy Choi was named “Best New Chef” in 2010 by the prestigious Food & Wine magazine – a first for a food truck chef) and the interactive social aspects of a roving kitchen on wheels. Since 2008, the food truck revolution has swept the nation, including Greenville in recent years. In fact, our awesome city has some truly unique and delicious options when it comes to food trucks.
Looking for amazing cakes in Greenville, SC? The art of cake decorating and baking is often harder than it looks. Great bakers, make the process seem effortless, and that misconception has led to many a reality show. Just like on the show “Nailed It”, oftentimes even bakers can misjudge the difficulty of a cake’s design. That’s when reliable recommendations and photos of past work become so important. We have a list of bakeries in Greenville our readers have recommended.
Oftentimes, the decorating of a cake can be just as difficult as saying no to orders, you aren’t sure you can pull off. If I sound like I know, it’s because I spent several years working in a bakery, and know-how important cakes can be to a milestone event. Check out these awesome local bakeries that will make your guest’s mouths water, and your photos the envy of everyone on Instagram!
For even more birthday party ideas, be sure to look at our Ultimate Guide to Birthday Parties in Greenville!
