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Liscio's Italian Bakery & Deli is a bakery located in Washington Township. Rated 4.6 stars from 754 Google reviews.

Hail Mary Sports Grille in Fountain Inn is where you go when there's a game on and you'd rather watch it over food and a cold drink than at home. The menu sticks to casual American grill fare at easygoing prices, which makes it an easy call for a weeknight dinner or a slow afternoon of following whatever's on. On Fridays and Saturdays the grill runs late, staying open past midnight when most of Fountain Inn has already called it a night.

Ria's Sweet Creations - Custom Bakers is a bakery located in Washington Township. Rated 4.8 stars from 75 Google reviews.

Two Sweet Boutique is a bakery located in Washington Township. Rated 4.8 stars from 280 Google reviews.

ESB Sports Bar sits on Augusta Road in Piedmont, out in the Upstate. It plays two roles at once: a place to catch a game with a drink in hand, and an American kitchen putting out full plates rather than only bar snacks. That combination is the point. You can settle in for an evening of food and sports without choosing between a real dinner and somewhere to watch the game, which makes it an easy call for weeknights and weekend matchups.

Gianino's Pastries is a bakery located in Washington Township. Rated 4.6 stars from 170 Google reviews.

Liscio's Italian Bakery & Deli is a bakery located in Washington Township. Rated 4.5 stars from 710 Google reviews.

Aversa's Italian Bakery is a catering service located in Washington Township. They offer food delivery and service services. Rated 4.6 stars from 1421 Google reviews.

Reubens made its name around Powdersville on a pairing you do not run into often: deep-fried ribs and a wing menu that runs past two hundred flavors. Owner Casey Livengood set it up as home-style cooking with a full bar attached, and the wings are the part locals tend to argue about, with plenty of reviewers calling them the best in the area. The room is built for game day, with screens across the walls, a patio for warmer evenings, and live music that turns up on the calendar most weeks. That mix lets it work as a weeknight family dinner and a place to settle in for a full afternoon of football on a Saturday. The menu stretches to match: burgers, a loaded club, chili, meat-and-three lunch plates, and the corned beef Reuben the spot takes its name from. Past the wings, the Philly cheesesteak gets singled out again and again in reviews, and the fried grouper sandwich and loaded tater tots have built their own following. Portions run generous and the kitchen leans hearty over fussy.

Platinum House Of Sweets is a bakery located in Washington Township. Rated 4.7 stars from 116 Google reviews.

Sweet Talk Cafe is a cafe located in Washington Township. They offer bakery and food store services. Rated 4.9 stars from 127 Google reviews.

Silver Moon is an Easley sports bar built for watching the game with a crowd rather than alone at home, with a kitchen working behind the bar so there is food to go with the beer and the broadcast. On the nights when nothing big is on the screens, karaoke keeps the room going, and the whole place stays casual and unpretentious. It is a straightforward neighborhood spot for game day, a few drinks, and a lively night out in the Upstate.

For more than a decade, Steddy's has been where Easley goes to unwind after work, a casual spot on Highway 123 with the games on the screens and a drink never far from reach. It gets loud and lively once it fills up, though people who come often describe the room as easygoing and comfortable, the kind of place you can drop into without making a plan. The wings are what built the name. Steddy's has taken Pickens County's King of Wings title, and locals keep pointing to them, running through a long list of flavors that stretches from lemon pepper and garlic parm to Asian zing and mango habanero. The rest of the menu holds its own, with chargrilled burgers and steaks that turn up again and again in the reviews, plus shrimp and grits that only come around the first week of each month. There's usually something going on beyond the food. Happy hour runs every weekday from 3 to 7, DJ trivia takes over on Tuesdays and music bingo on Thursdays, and many weekends bring a live local band or a house DJ.

The garlic parmesan wings are the order most people here steer a newcomer toward, and on weekends the kitchen puts out a prime rib that draws its own crowd. The room is built for a night out with the game on: a roomy floor, TVs worked into the walls, and a run of live bands and karaoke that gets going later in the week. There is a private banquet room as well, put to work for birthdays and team parties. The kitchen reaches well past wings and burgers into pasta, steak, and seafood, backed by a full bar and a happy hour worth timing a visit around. Shrimp and grits and a French dip built on that same weekend roast turn up often in what people single out, alongside the fried lineup locals order on repeat: chili cheese fries, onion rings, and fried pickles. One thing reviewers keep mentioning is the fries, cut thin and straw-style rather than the usual steak fry. It has been a Wade Hampton fixture since 2017, started by someone with decades in kitchens behind him, and the following it has built leans loyal and local. With a menu this wide and this many dishes people will argue for, you will land on your own standing order soon enough, and sorting out which one is half the fun.

Field House Sports Bar sits on North Poinsett Highway, the main road running through Travelers Rest at the northern edge of the Upstate, which makes it an easy stop coming into town or heading up toward the mountains. Inside it runs loud and lively, with a crowd that mixes younger folks out for the night and locals who have been coming for years, and staff check IDs at the door, so it keeps the feel of a night-out bar rather than a family grill. There is plenty going on beyond the game on the TVs. Pool tables anchor the room, and the calendar fills out with karaoke, trivia, music bingo, and live bands that turn up on weekends. Visitors mention cold beer and well-made drinks, and the bartenders come up again and again for being friendly and quick to keep a glass full. It also runs later than most places in town, one of the few spots up this way still going into the early hours on a weekend night, which pulls the later crowd looking for somewhere to land. Pool tournaments are a regular fixture on the calendar, and karaoke nights are what people tend to mention most.

Turn 1 Sports Bar is a Simpsonville spot whose name tells you the theme before you're through the door: it leans into racing, a small identity that sets it apart from the usual run of Upstate sports bars. The draw here is the straightforward one, a game on and a drink in hand among an easygoing crowd. It plays more as an evening-and-weekend hangout than a lunch stop, the low-key sort of neighborhood bar you settle into when there's something worth watching and friends to watch it with.

Partners Morgan Holzman and Heather Taylor run Bullwinkle's Tavern, and the first surprise is the building itself. It sits in a Five Forks warehouse space off Woodruff Road that gives away almost nothing from the parking lot, then opens up inside into a genuine sports tavern: walls covered in a collection worth wandering past, TVs going for whatever game is on, dart boards and a claw machine, and a patio with outdoor games when the weather cooperates. The kitchen keeps its focus on what it does well, an American menu built around hand-formed personal pizzas, build-your-own pies and calzones, wings, garlic knots, and baked meatballs in marinara. The bar is where the place earns its name, though. There is a craft beer list with rotating taps posted on the wall, and a bourbon selection that catches a lot of first-timers off guard, plus bourbon slushies for anyone after the easygoing version. It plays family-friendly in the daytime and turns into a livelier end-of-night spot later, with live music some evenings. That range makes it an easy call for catching a game with friends, a casual dinner with the kids, or a night out that lands somewhere in between.

The Parkway spot on South Batesville Road runs like the kind of Greer sports bar you end up at more than once. Games are on, there is a patio for the warm months, and the calendar keeps the room busy on quieter nights with karaoke, bingo, and live music depending on the day. Reviewers keep reaching for the same idea when they describe the place, something closer to a neighborhood hangout than a chain. The real draw is the wings. The kitchen advertises well past 200 flavors, so the buffalo-or-nothing crowd and the garlic-parmesan people can happily share a table. Around that sits honest bar-and-grill cooking, from smoked Reubens and pastrami to burgers and Southern plates, at prices that stay in everyday territory. The bar side has its own following, with a Best of the Upstate 2025 nod for cocktails and happy hour. If you want the item people bring up without being asked, it is the ribs. Order the half rack and the falling-off-the-bone line the reviews keep using starts to make sense.

Carolina Ale House sits on Woodruff Road, one of Greenville's busiest retail and dining corridors, pairing a full sports bar with American pub fare and a long beer list. This Greenville-Woodruff location is one of several Carolina Ale House spots. It runs later than most kitchens nearby, and a kids' menu makes it as workable for a family dinner as for a night out watching the game.

Tip It Back Sports Grille sits on Pelham Road on the east side of Greenville, a sports bar that keeps late hours and stays open past midnight most nights of the week. Inside it is a low-lit tavern with the games running on the TVs and a menu built around classic bar fare. The week is not all sports, though. Alongside the games, the schedule rotates in live music and karaoke nights.

More than 30 TVs run across nearly every wall here, so no one at the table has to miss a play. Hall of Fame Sports Grill is a family-friendly neighborhood spot on Wade Hampton Boulevard, the kind of room that fills up and gets loud on game day but still works for a weekday lunch or an easy round after work. When the weather cooperates, the screened deck out back tends to be the seat people ask for first. The bar leans into craft beer, bourbon, and tequila, with happy hour Monday through Friday from 4 to 7 and a burger-and-beer deal every Monday. The games are the real draw, but the midweek calendar pulls its weight too, with trivia, karaoke, and bingo turning up in regular rotation. The kitchen goes past standard bar food. The item reviewers keep naming is the Corn Husker Reuben, built on house-made corned beef with sauerkraut, Swiss, and Thousand Island on grilled rye. The wings, the burgers, and the LA Dodger chef salad earn their own mentions, and portions tend to run generous.

La Unica Panadería is a Mexican panadería that does more than bread. Trays of pan dulce and other sweet breads come out through the day up front, while the kitchen behind them turns out tacos and other Mexican plates, so a single stop can cover both a sweet craving and a real meal. The same counter takes on cakes for birthdays, quinceañeras, and the other celebrations that call for one, which is a good part of what a neighborhood panadería is for around here.

Walk into Panaderia La Estrella and the pull is the case of Mexican sweet breads baked on-site: conchas with their shell-patterned tops, churros, and a rotating spread of pan dulce that shifts with whatever has just come out of the oven, alongside donuts and other everyday treats. It is a small, simple room with a few tables, the kind of counter spot where the staff will point you toward what they would order themselves. It is more than a bakery, though. The same counter that sells you a bag of pan dulce also puts out hearty Mexican plates and tacos, so it works for an early-morning coffee-and-concha run or a sit-down lunch just as easily. Reviewers keep coming back to the freshness and the value, and it has become one of Simpsonville's go-to Mexican spots for people who would rather not drive into Greenville for it. The pan dulce selection is wide enough that sorting out your own favorite takes a few visits.

La Estrella is a working Mexican panadería in downtown Greer that runs two counters at once: a case of pan dulce, conchas, and cakes on one side, and a kitchen sending out tacos, tortas, and tamales on the other. It has been part of the neighborhood long enough to become a real morning habit, the kind of stop people make on the way to or from work before the day fills up. The tacos are where the kitchen has made its name. Reviewers keep coming back to the asada and carnitas on handmade corn tortillas, the lengua for anyone who wants it done the traditional way, and a salsa verde singled out again and again for its balance of flavor over heat. A line locals repeat is that this is not Tex-Mex. The tortas have their own following too, loaded and large enough that one can stretch across two meals, which is a good part of why people keep turning up. The bakery side carries the everyday draw, from sweet breads first thing in the morning to the cakes and tamales people order when it is their turn to bring something to a holiday table or a family gathering. Nextdoor readers have named it a neighborhood favorite across several communities around Greer, which makes it an easy call for both an early pastry run and the celebration order you would rather not get wrong.