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Greenville a rising food city, says USA Today and Garden and Gun

Lillia Callum-Penso
The Greenville News

 

Add these to the the top lists Greenville has already made. In the last week, Garden & Gun Magazine and USA Today have ranked Greenville among some of the top underrated and up and coming food cities in the south.

Garden & Gun released its list of 5 Surprising Southern Food Towns, Sept. 18, including Greenville among other standouts like Birmingham, Alabama, Knoxville, Tennessee, Raleigh, North Carolina and St. Petersburg, Florida. 

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The list was compiled by Garden & Gun's editors and meant to showcase those cities "emerging as strong eating destinations in the South," as part of the magazine's efforts to determine The South’s Best Food Towns.

That same day, USA Today released an article highlighting five of the South's underrated food cities, with Greenville listed among others like Birmingham, Alabama, Lexington, Kentucky, Baton Rouge, Louisiana and Athens, Georgia. 

Both articles made mention of Chefs Joe Clarke, of the recently closed but still celebrated American Grocery Restaurant and Vault & Vator and Michael Kramer, whose culinary prowess has manifested most recently at Jianna, the modern Italian restaurant overlooking Falls Park.

Soby's also got a mention for helping lay the foundation for a food culture 20 years ago. 

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The Anchorage, chef Greg McPhee's culinary homage to local cuisine got props, as did Village of West Greenville's other star, GB&D, where chef and owner, Alex George has been shaking things up with a tunnel vision type focus on supporting local purveyors and on serving creative, delicious and reasonably priced food.

Methodical Coffee won praise for its big city coffee approach and Ji-(roz) was honored for its contribution to a more eclectic food scene.

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You can read both articles here and here.