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Sharp cheddar mixed with mayonnaise and roasted red peppers (pimentos), sometimes pickled jalapeño. The Carolinas claim it as a regional staple sandwich filling.
Pimento cheese became regional shorthand for Southern fixings in the early 1900s, when home economists pushed it as a sandwich filling for school lunches across the Carolinas. Greenville restaurants run it on every variation: Soby's serves a Spicy Pimento Cheese starter at dinner and brunch; Tupelo Honey runs pimento cheese fries.
2 editor picks for Pimento cheese in Greenville, ranked by editorial score. All Greenville signature dishes · Pimento cheese across every city.
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Soby's New South Cuisine ★ 4.6
downtown · 207 South Main Street, Greenville, SC 29601
Soby's anchors the Main Street dining scene in Greenville: Carl Sobocinski's 1997 New Southern flagship in a former dry-goods store, with she-crab soup.
Tupelo Honey ★ 4.4
downtown · 1 North Main Street, Suite T, Greenville, SC 29601
Tupelo Honey runs scratch-made Southern on the North Main corner: fried chicken biscuits, shrimp and grits, sweet potato pancakes. Asheville-born group.
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