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. Â 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. Â 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. Â
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.
Review Source:Walked in on a Saturday afternoon and asked if the kitchen was open. Â The "server" said, "Yes", and asked us what we wanted to drink. Â Told her we would need a second. Â 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. Â When they came out, she set them on the bar, where we had to retrieve them. Â 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. Â 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. Â Not a lot of TV's. Â Dark, dirty, and run down.
The memories... Oh.The.Memories... Â I frequented this bar many weekends, almost religiously. Â My drink of choice was a "Tiger in the Tank". Â Although this was nearly three years ago, I am glad to see this place is still operating and still serving my drink of choice.
This place is perfect for meetup place to kick off the weekend bar crawl of Greenville.
The food on my last visit was well above, what you would expect from a bar.
CT wins the award for worst use of premium real estate. The term 'dive bar' would be generous in this case. Dive bars don't exist in premium locations such as this one. If you want to watch a game, this is easily the worst place possible - it looks like they get their feed from a piece of tin foil.
I'm not sure who own's this place, or who hires the staff - but the patrons are the staff and vice versa. No real service here.
In our search for a true "dive" in Greenville we were told to check out City Tavern....it was supposed to be a great little bar with surprisingly good and effective frozen drinks...
Upon entering I was struck by all the ripped chairs...c'mon people, if you can't afford new chairs at least duct tape them...no one wants to sit in that...and the empty beer bottles scattered on unoccupied tables...I am a bit confused if dirty was mistaken for dive...
Not wanting to sit at a sticky table with ripped chairs we decided to stand at the bar...sadly we did not get to try a drink as the bartender was too busy talking to the other patrons at the bar to help us and no other staff could be located...after five minutes of holding out our money "bar style" and some uncomfortable staring we moved on...
And I guess the bartender was too busy to wipe the sticky bar as well...
What a dump....and I don't mean that in a good way. I mean, I'm all for a good dive bar, but this place is a dump. They have a great downtown location, but have done nothing to improve the place...ever. All the bar chairs are torn up with the padding coming out. I was wearing a skirt, and didn't dare sit for fear of slicing my leg on the shards of torn pleather. Â All the tables are sticky. They are apparently "famous" for their slurpee-like frozen beverages, but that's not enough to hang your hat on.
Their only redeeming feature is that they are one of the few places in town that has "Naked Photo Hunt". You know those bar top game units that have all the quiz games to play while you're drinking? This is the adult version...if you catch my drift. Alas, the last time I was here, even the game machine wasn't working correctly, so we all finished our one beer and moved on to better places...
This place was a college hang out for me. Â Derive what you want about the quality and vibe from that statement.
Tigers in the Tank (orange slushy drink with bunches of booze) have become a routine for any night I spend out in Greenville.
I've also mowed done some awesome (at least they were at the time) bar food munchies here.
Rob is a legit bartender as well. Â This place get's real crowded on the weekends.
If you can get a table and pony up on the patio, it is a sweet people watching perch.
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