Restaurants in Greer

White Wine & Butter is the restaurant at Greer Golf, off Gap Creek Rd in Greer. A sit-down Southern kitchen set at a golf course is a bit of its own thing in the Upstate, and this one reaches past the dining room too: it caters, taking the same Southern cooking out to events around the area. For anyone up in Greer, it makes for a Southern table close to home rather than a drive into Greenville for dinner.

Rick Erwin's Greer brought the Rick Erwin name, a fixture of Upstate fine dining, to downtown Greer in 2023, taking over the East Poinsett Street space locals knew for years as Strip Club 104. It is the group's newest room, and it runs on the same idea that built the name: a serious steakhouse that stays warm instead of stuffy. The setting is intimate and dressed up without tipping into formal, with private and semi-private areas for larger parties. Executive chef Ben Arendt's kitchen is built on premium cuts of beef and fresh seafood, backed by a full bar and a deep wine list, along with chef's features written just for the Greer location. Diners keep pointing to the she-crab soup, the shrimp and grits, and the crab cakes, and to the Saganaki cheese flamed table-side, while the steaks pull the kind of praise a steakhouse lives or dies on. It is a reservations-first kind of place, and the occasions guests describe tend to repeat: an anniversary, a milestone worth marking, a date night, or a business dinner where the pacing and the service carry as much weight as the food.

L'INCANTO was built for elegant comfort, and the details carry it: frosted-glass rose emblems, a bar washed in cool blue light, and an intimate dining room made for a slower evening. It sits on East Poinsett Street in downtown Greer's walkable historic district, the kind of dinner-only spot you settle into rather than pass through. The kitchen belongs to Chef Carlos Echeverri, who runs it alongside his wife, Kristi. Their cooking stays rooted in Northern Italy while leaving room for a modern hand, and each plate is built with real attention to how flavor, texture, acidity, and pairing come together. The menu shifts with the seasons rather than sitting still. Vegetarian, vegan, and gluten-free diners are looked after, and the staff know the wine list well enough to guide you through it. Reviewers keep returning to specific plates: the bolognese, a pork belly osso buco, Chilean sea bass, and lamb that guests call out by name. Beyond the regular menu, the restaurant hosts seasonal wine dinners and keeps a private room for larger parties and celebrations. Because the menu turns with the seasons, the dish people are raving about one month may be gone the next, so the favorite you leave with is likely to be one you find on your own.

Laurenda's is a family-run kitchen in Greer that cooks from grandmother's recipes and has run its catering side long enough to have handled Upstate weddings and rehearsal dinners for more than two decades. The folks behind the counter will tell you they would rather make friends than clients, and most of the catering work still comes by word of mouth. Inside, it runs like an old-school cafeteria line: you move down the counter, point at what looks good, and the staff plate it up for you. The center of it is the meat-and-three, the day's Southern sides stacked next to fried chicken, hamburger steak, or whatever else is coming out of the kitchen that afternoon. A full dining room seats well over a hundred, with banquet space for when a family needs to feed a crowd. The dishes people single out most are the mac and cheese, the dressing, and green beans cooked soft and Southern, and plenty of folks don't leave without a slice of the scratch-made coconut or strawberry cake. Sunday lunch after church is its own tradition here. With a spread that shifts by the day and more sides than fit on one plate, you'll sort out your own standing order somewhere around the third trip down the line.