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.

Wings are the whole reason Wingnutz exists, and Fountain Inn has made the case with its appetite: the kitchen runs through roughly 95,000 pounds a year, all fresh, never frozen, cooked to order across sixteen flavors the crew will happily push hotter on request. Owner Chris Cates opened the place in July 2020 inside a former Trade Street bank building, the same branch where he once kept his first account, and built it around the town rather than a franchise template. It plays like a proper sports-and-games hangout: pool tables and dart boards in the back, TVs angled for whatever game is on, and karaoke and trivia nights filling out the week, with a late-night weekend stretch that outlasts most kitchens nearby. The food reaches well past wings, with a smash burger customers rank among the best around, housemade nachos built for sharing, and tater tots people keep mentioning for actually staying crisp. Add a 4-to-7 happy hour on domestic beers and well pours, and it lands as an easy call for watching a game with a group or for a loud, friendly night out after the rest of town has gone quiet.