Town House has been a staple in Florence or many years. I have eaten at this place quite a few times over the years but have never got around to Yelping them. They cater quite often to the place I work and have found their food to always be pretty high quality. They pack really nice box lunches which include a choice of meats including hamburger steaks, grilled chicken, grilled shrimp, or fried pork chops. Baked potatoes, salad, and roll accompany each meat. They also have a wide selection of salads and even though I don't eat them most people rave about them that I work with. I have also been to the actual restaurant a few times for lunch. This place gets packed during the lunch time hours and finding a table can be a chore. I enjoy their cheeseburgers and was pleasantly surprised at how good their seafood dishes are. The fried shrimp and oysters were tasty even though I was a bit skeptical before ordering them. They also bill themselves as a Greek restaurant even though the menu isn't all that expansive in that area (they have gyros and souvlaki). Large selection of sandwiches which are usually all good. Never had a bad item from their pretty diverse menu. Service is always friendly and they really bend over backwards to keep their customers happy. Definitely worth a stop if you are in the Florence area.
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Jay H.
Throughout the different places that I've lived, I have noticed that the definition of "Greek Restaurant" is different in the South when compared to other parts of the country. It seems that in most places a Greek restaurant primarily consists of Greek food such as: Gyros, Greek salad, Dolmas, Pita Bread, etc. But it seems like in the South, the term Greek restaurant is a place that is owned and run by someone of that nationality, that still has some Greek dishes, but mostly has fried seafood, chicken, and other local staples on the menu. This is a real interesting phenomenon to me, and one that I only thought about when someone not from the southeast came to Town House and asked "Is this a Greek restaurant?" I have many theories on how this came to be, but I'll write that somewhere else. This review is about the Mecca of restaurants to me when I come visit SC. If this place ever drops in quality, it will crush my spirit! Town House is a definite stop if you are driving up or down I-95. I've gotten a lot of different meals here throughout the years, but recently I have stayed with the flounder/oyster combo box. I will say this first of all, the cup of salad can be left out. I always say that next time I will just tell them that in advance because I'm not touching it or the salad dressing, there is no room. All of the seafood is so fresh! The flounder is so tasty and cooked to perfection! The oysters are so big and juicy! My mouth is drooling right now as I type this! Even the fries are seasoned well, but don't start with the fries..there is no room for that either! They give you so much fish that this box is easily two meals, so if two of you are going and you want the same thing, just get one dinner and share. Their menu runs the spectrum of seafood, burgers, chicken, cake, etc. Shrimp, catfish, oysters, whiting, flounder...if it swims it's fried here! This is a staple in the Florence SC area, and there's a reason for it! Good food and good people too! The staff is just as good as the food that they serve! Oh yeah, one more tip. Since you are already indulging in thousands of fried calories, ask for cherry Pepsi. I don't think it's on the menu, but they put a lot of syrup and cherries in it. You might as well drink down a few more hundred calories. It doesn't matter at this point.
(5)
Mark K.
Great place for lunch. Try the greek salad.
(4)
Karen W.
Townhouse is the best! I love the Greek grilled chicken salad and gyros. Friendly service and a clean restaurant as well.
(5)
Rachel M.
Best chef salad in town.
(5)
Matt W.
Great local dive. You go for the people and the relationships rather than the decorum. Ribeye Steak Sandwich is off the charts. Fries are excellent.
(4)
Bill W.
This started out as a four star review, but I changed it because while it is not upscale dining, it is great at what it is. My job has me in a different city nearly every night, so I eat out waaay too much, although the upside is that I get to try many different places. Tonight, I decided to try this one. The menu is homestyle, southern cooking, at least the part I looked at is. The prices are reasonable, portions generous, and taste......spot on. As a southerner, any restaurant that doesn't have sweet tea is simply a place to grab a water and ask for directions to an actual restaurant.........with sweet tea. The sweet tea didn't dissapoint. The fried chicken was like home cooked, the baked potato was good size, and came with butter and sour cream without asking, as it should. The one thing, and it is very small, is that the salad came with thousand island dressing already on it. I have no problem with thousand island dressing, in fact I used to live on it as a kid, but given a choice I would have preferred ranch. For what it's worth, I'm not hard to please. Good food, decent prices, friendly atmosphere, and I'm happy. When I find such a place, I'll be back. I'll be back to Town House.
(5)
Sandra H.
Really good food at a reasonable price. You order your food at the counter then pick it up when ready. Salads were fresh and all the portions were generous. One in our party ordered the shrimp and wanted cocktail sauce instead of the tarter sauce provided. When asked the staff provided it asking how much and there was no additional charge. Will definitely be eating here again.
(5)
Reynolds W.
I never turn down a chance to eat at, or take from, the Town House. The Greek Chicken is memorable, the fried flounder as good as it gets. The real surprise here are the baked potatoes -- truly outstanding; George says that's because of his selection & I believe him. They overcome having been wrapped in tin foil and cannot be beat.
(4)
Mollie M.
If you dont mind a little wait for your hot food at the drive thru then its worth going. Ordering a large meal comes with like 2 burgers, large fries, and a salad for like $8. So its enough to share. Doesnt come with a drink though-thats like an extra $2.50 so thats where they get ya. But the burgers and hotdogs are classic diner style food and quite yummy. The fries are just normal frozen generic fries but you do get a lot of them. Worth a trip to for some quality fast food.
(4)
Kevin T.
Great food! Get the greek marinated chicken sandwich or salad. It is awesome! Anything on the menu is going to be a winner. Great sweet tea too. Much better than the 301 (The Drive In) tea that gets gets the ratings in the Morning News newspaper. Restaurant is clean but very small. Be prepared to change to takeout because the seats are usually full around lunch time. Counter service was good and very fast. Would have been a 5 star review but the prices are a little high. $10 for a chicken sandwich, fries and tea. I will pay it over and over again because it is so good but I think its a little high.
(4)
Chris L.
If you are traveling I95 and need a good place to stop, this is it. It is a little out of the way off of 95, but a nice place to have a sit down meal. Although this is touted as a "Greek" restaurant, it has more of a variety of "American" food ranging from chicken, hamburgers, salads, and sandwiches. It did have Gyros, which I had the Slovaki Gyro and my husband had the Slovaki dinner. It was excellent! We both thought the food was seasoned well and cooked to perfection. We both had Greek salad sides and thought the dressing was a little weird at first, but it turned out to be good as well. The $1.80 Baklava was a nice way to end our meal and well worth it. We will be stopping in again.
(5)
Tracy And Charlie S.
Passing through on the way to Myrtle Beach...this is a local spot with a nice "Greek-focused" menu. We ordered a Lamb Gyro with fries and one with a Greek salad. The meals were OK - not much flavor on the gyros. The grilled pita was good but the tzatziki sauce was very runny and the tomatoes were very white. The Gyro meat was grilled crisp. The Greek salad wasn't bad but the strawberry milkshake wasn't real ice cream blended into a shake. It was an icy dairy product with red-colored flavoring. Overall, it left me feeling like I ate fast food.
(2)
Charles S.
Wow, yelp finally let me down on this one... Driving back home up 95 this joint seemed to be the exact place I was looking for, but what a disappointment! I was expecting a drive-in/diner type environment, but instead what I got was a throw-back to the cheap, poorly-run local fast food joints of the 80s. Times have changed, but this place sure hasn't. If you prefer frozen french fries, frozen onion rings, and frozen hamburger patties, then by all means this should be your first stop. I feel really sorry for the locals and their lack of insisting on better food, since this place is obviously well liked by some people based on the high ratings here on yelp. I ordered a patty melt with "hand-cut" (based on the lettering on the menu board) onion rings - I have to call total BS on this though. The patty melt was served on a normal hamburger bun, not Texas Toast or some other kind of flat bread as is customary for about 99% of other places serving patty melts. The only thing distinguishing this from a normal cheeseburger was the grilled onions I guess. Regarding the onion rings, they were terrible! I cannot imagine how in the world they could have been hand cut and not from a freezer. They were uniform in size and had the same breaded coating you find in your local grocer's freezer isle if buying frozen onion rings there (not saying you should do that either). The wife had a turkey sandwich and (frozen) french fries. The fries were bland and there was very little turkey included on the sandwich. Seriously, even Subway gives you more meat on their 6-inch subs. The best thing we had was a side salad, which says a lot about what I thought of this place. The worst thing was the bill. All told, with two drinks added, this atrocity was over $20. If this came out to around $10 total, then maybe I wouldn't have been so critical, but at these prices, give me Burger King any day! Have no clue what place other yelpers are reviewing on here...
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Takes Reservations : No Delivery : No Take-out : Yes Accepts Credit Cards : Yes Good For : Lunch, Dinner Parking : Private Lot Bike Parking : Yes Good for Kids : Yes Good for Groups : Yes Attire : Casual Ambience : Casual Noise Level : Loud Alcohol : No Outdoor Seating : No Wi-Fi : No Has TV : Yes Waiter Service : No Caters : Yes
Jason L.
Town House has been a staple in Florence or many years. I have eaten at this place quite a few times over the years but have never got around to Yelping them. They cater quite often to the place I work and have found their food to always be pretty high quality. They pack really nice box lunches which include a choice of meats including hamburger steaks, grilled chicken, grilled shrimp, or fried pork chops. Baked potatoes, salad, and roll accompany each meat. They also have a wide selection of salads and even though I don't eat them most people rave about them that I work with. I have also been to the actual restaurant a few times for lunch. This place gets packed during the lunch time hours and finding a table can be a chore. I enjoy their cheeseburgers and was pleasantly surprised at how good their seafood dishes are. The fried shrimp and oysters were tasty even though I was a bit skeptical before ordering them. They also bill themselves as a Greek restaurant even though the menu isn't all that expansive in that area (they have gyros and souvlaki). Large selection of sandwiches which are usually all good. Never had a bad item from their pretty diverse menu. Service is always friendly and they really bend over backwards to keep their customers happy. Definitely worth a stop if you are in the Florence area.
(4)Jay H.
Throughout the different places that I've lived, I have noticed that the definition of "Greek Restaurant" is different in the South when compared to other parts of the country. It seems that in most places a Greek restaurant primarily consists of Greek food such as: Gyros, Greek salad, Dolmas, Pita Bread, etc. But it seems like in the South, the term Greek restaurant is a place that is owned and run by someone of that nationality, that still has some Greek dishes, but mostly has fried seafood, chicken, and other local staples on the menu. This is a real interesting phenomenon to me, and one that I only thought about when someone not from the southeast came to Town House and asked "Is this a Greek restaurant?" I have many theories on how this came to be, but I'll write that somewhere else. This review is about the Mecca of restaurants to me when I come visit SC. If this place ever drops in quality, it will crush my spirit! Town House is a definite stop if you are driving up or down I-95. I've gotten a lot of different meals here throughout the years, but recently I have stayed with the flounder/oyster combo box. I will say this first of all, the cup of salad can be left out. I always say that next time I will just tell them that in advance because I'm not touching it or the salad dressing, there is no room. All of the seafood is so fresh! The flounder is so tasty and cooked to perfection! The oysters are so big and juicy! My mouth is drooling right now as I type this! Even the fries are seasoned well, but don't start with the fries..there is no room for that either! They give you so much fish that this box is easily two meals, so if two of you are going and you want the same thing, just get one dinner and share. Their menu runs the spectrum of seafood, burgers, chicken, cake, etc. Shrimp, catfish, oysters, whiting, flounder...if it swims it's fried here! This is a staple in the Florence SC area, and there's a reason for it! Good food and good people too! The staff is just as good as the food that they serve! Oh yeah, one more tip. Since you are already indulging in thousands of fried calories, ask for cherry Pepsi. I don't think it's on the menu, but they put a lot of syrup and cherries in it. You might as well drink down a few more hundred calories. It doesn't matter at this point.
(5)Mark K.
Great place for lunch. Try the greek salad.
(4)Karen W.
Townhouse is the best! I love the Greek grilled chicken salad and gyros. Friendly service and a clean restaurant as well.
(5)Rachel M.
Best chef salad in town.
(5)Matt W.
Great local dive. You go for the people and the relationships rather than the decorum. Ribeye Steak Sandwich is off the charts. Fries are excellent.
(4)Bill W.
This started out as a four star review, but I changed it because while it is not upscale dining, it is great at what it is. My job has me in a different city nearly every night, so I eat out waaay too much, although the upside is that I get to try many different places. Tonight, I decided to try this one. The menu is homestyle, southern cooking, at least the part I looked at is. The prices are reasonable, portions generous, and taste......spot on. As a southerner, any restaurant that doesn't have sweet tea is simply a place to grab a water and ask for directions to an actual restaurant.........with sweet tea. The sweet tea didn't dissapoint. The fried chicken was like home cooked, the baked potato was good size, and came with butter and sour cream without asking, as it should. The one thing, and it is very small, is that the salad came with thousand island dressing already on it. I have no problem with thousand island dressing, in fact I used to live on it as a kid, but given a choice I would have preferred ranch. For what it's worth, I'm not hard to please. Good food, decent prices, friendly atmosphere, and I'm happy. When I find such a place, I'll be back. I'll be back to Town House.
(5)Sandra H.
Really good food at a reasonable price. You order your food at the counter then pick it up when ready. Salads were fresh and all the portions were generous. One in our party ordered the shrimp and wanted cocktail sauce instead of the tarter sauce provided. When asked the staff provided it asking how much and there was no additional charge. Will definitely be eating here again.
(5)Reynolds W.
I never turn down a chance to eat at, or take from, the Town House. The Greek Chicken is memorable, the fried flounder as good as it gets. The real surprise here are the baked potatoes -- truly outstanding; George says that's because of his selection & I believe him. They overcome having been wrapped in tin foil and cannot be beat.
(4)Mollie M.
If you dont mind a little wait for your hot food at the drive thru then its worth going. Ordering a large meal comes with like 2 burgers, large fries, and a salad for like $8. So its enough to share. Doesnt come with a drink though-thats like an extra $2.50 so thats where they get ya. But the burgers and hotdogs are classic diner style food and quite yummy. The fries are just normal frozen generic fries but you do get a lot of them. Worth a trip to for some quality fast food.
(4)Kevin T.
Great food! Get the greek marinated chicken sandwich or salad. It is awesome! Anything on the menu is going to be a winner. Great sweet tea too. Much better than the 301 (The Drive In) tea that gets gets the ratings in the Morning News newspaper. Restaurant is clean but very small. Be prepared to change to takeout because the seats are usually full around lunch time. Counter service was good and very fast. Would have been a 5 star review but the prices are a little high. $10 for a chicken sandwich, fries and tea. I will pay it over and over again because it is so good but I think its a little high.
(4)Chris L.
If you are traveling I95 and need a good place to stop, this is it. It is a little out of the way off of 95, but a nice place to have a sit down meal. Although this is touted as a "Greek" restaurant, it has more of a variety of "American" food ranging from chicken, hamburgers, salads, and sandwiches. It did have Gyros, which I had the Slovaki Gyro and my husband had the Slovaki dinner. It was excellent! We both thought the food was seasoned well and cooked to perfection. We both had Greek salad sides and thought the dressing was a little weird at first, but it turned out to be good as well. The $1.80 Baklava was a nice way to end our meal and well worth it. We will be stopping in again.
(5)Tracy And Charlie S.
Passing through on the way to Myrtle Beach...this is a local spot with a nice "Greek-focused" menu. We ordered a Lamb Gyro with fries and one with a Greek salad. The meals were OK - not much flavor on the gyros. The grilled pita was good but the tzatziki sauce was very runny and the tomatoes were very white. The Gyro meat was grilled crisp. The Greek salad wasn't bad but the strawberry milkshake wasn't real ice cream blended into a shake. It was an icy dairy product with red-colored flavoring. Overall, it left me feeling like I ate fast food.
(2)Charles S.
Wow, yelp finally let me down on this one... Driving back home up 95 this joint seemed to be the exact place I was looking for, but what a disappointment! I was expecting a drive-in/diner type environment, but instead what I got was a throw-back to the cheap, poorly-run local fast food joints of the 80s. Times have changed, but this place sure hasn't. If you prefer frozen french fries, frozen onion rings, and frozen hamburger patties, then by all means this should be your first stop. I feel really sorry for the locals and their lack of insisting on better food, since this place is obviously well liked by some people based on the high ratings here on yelp. I ordered a patty melt with "hand-cut" (based on the lettering on the menu board) onion rings - I have to call total BS on this though. The patty melt was served on a normal hamburger bun, not Texas Toast or some other kind of flat bread as is customary for about 99% of other places serving patty melts. The only thing distinguishing this from a normal cheeseburger was the grilled onions I guess. Regarding the onion rings, they were terrible! I cannot imagine how in the world they could have been hand cut and not from a freezer. They were uniform in size and had the same breaded coating you find in your local grocer's freezer isle if buying frozen onion rings there (not saying you should do that either). The wife had a turkey sandwich and (frozen) french fries. The fries were bland and there was very little turkey included on the sandwich. Seriously, even Subway gives you more meat on their 6-inch subs. The best thing we had was a side salad, which says a lot about what I thought of this place. The worst thing was the bill. All told, with two drinks added, this atrocity was over $20. If this came out to around $10 total, then maybe I wouldn't have been so critical, but at these prices, give me Burger King any day! Have no clue what place other yelpers are reviewing on here...
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