Bars & Pubs in Taylors

Zorba East Lounge is a cocktail bar in Taylors, just northeast of Greenville. It keeps a bar's hours rather than a kitchen's, opening in the afternoon and running late most nights, which makes it an evening and after-dinner stop more than a daytime one. The pour leans to mixed cocktails, and by its reviews it has built a steady local following on that side of the Upstate.

Whiskeys is the kind of easygoing neighborhood bar the Taylors crowd treats as its own, a low-key spot on the Wade Hampton corridor that opens late morning and stays open until two, seven nights a week. The feel sits somewhere between a dive and a sports bar, the sort of room where a newcomer and a longtime regular end up in the same conversation and the company matters as much as the drink in front of you. What keeps the week busy is the calendar. Karaoke is the signature draw, backed by game nights and daily specials, so there is usually a reason to turn up beyond the standard pour, and the prices stay friendly enough that the same faces keep coming back. The kitchen holds its own too. Bar food is the lane here, and the wings are what people bring up first. One customer ordered a hundred of them for a Fourth of July weekend and was still raving about it afterward, which tells you most of what you need to know about how they land.

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.

Vibez Bar & Lounge covers a lot of ground for one spot on Wade Hampton Boulevard in Taylors. It works as a cocktail bar, a place to catch a game, a lounge to settle into, and a night club, so the kind of night you have there depends on when you show up. It keeps evening hours, open Tuesday through Thursday until midnight and running later into Friday and Saturday nights. Priced in the mid range, it is set up for cocktails and a night out that runs late rather than a sit-down dinner.