City Tavern

City Tavern, or Tassey's as it is properly called, is a Greenville landmark for me. You are guaranteed to run into old friends and likely to find a few new ones as well here. I'm happy to spend the whole night listening (or sometimes dancing) to their live music and stationed up at a table or booth at this gem of a dive bar.

There are a few important rules to remember here:

Rule 1.
Take caution when you order a Tiger.
One tiger=a good night
Two tigers= automatic hangover
Three tigers=certain death

Rule 2.
Always order cheese fries with extra ranch dressing.  The ranch dressing that comes with the infamous cheese fries is the most addictive substance known to man. Put a bowl of cheese fries on the table and it will be annihilated in under 5 minutes.

Rule 3.
Remember City Tavern is an actual restaurant too.  Sure its a little dirty around the edges, but the food is actually good and its a fun place to sit on the patio on Main Street and watch a game.  

I love City Tavern. I can't help it.

Stopped to watch the 4th qtr of the Falcons game. Been here 30 minutes on the patio and no one has offered to take an order. Guess a woman and a dog are assumed to be broke? The guy has been out to smoke three times . Doesn't matter, I'll watch the end of the game and then stop down the street.

Walked in on a Saturday afternoon and asked if the kitchen was open.  The "server" said, "Yes", and asked us what we wanted to drink.  Told her we would need a second.  She laid menus on the bar and went to the other end of the empty bar for ten minutes to chat with other employees.

When she came back, we ordered a couple of cokes and appetizers, deep-fried jalapeno slices and cheese sticks.  When they came out, she set them on the bar, where we had to retrieve them.  When we needed more marinara, we had to go to the far end of the bar to track her down again.

Nothing special here, just a crappy college bar.  Nothing interesting on the menu, and all the drink specials I saw are for kiddy drinks designed to hide the alcohol from the girls drinking it, or bud light.  Not a lot of TV's.  Dark, dirty, and run down.