Quarrier Diner

Great place to grab a drink and food.

Good basic diner breakfast and some really great ideas for an expanded menu when they originally reopened a few years ago. Wait staff is always very friendly.

Visiting from Miami… Good home style diner cooking. Nothing fancy, but reasonably priced with friendly service.

Timothy’s (downstairs diner/​bar) had great service, food and hosts. Would definitely recommend!

Had the special at lunch, meat loaf sandwich, absolutely loved it. It was meatloaf crumbled with provolone cheese on a hamburger bun. I had a hamburger last wwek at it was also very good. They opened with new owners sometime in 2013. I would recommend the restaurant for anyone looking for a great lunch in downtown Charleston.

I ate and tried the Mac and cheese. It was ok at best though the service was good. Don’t see myself coming back any time soon.

So the food was really good. I didn’t care for the service though. Went downstairs as well and had a drink and the lady bartender was really rude and horrible.

The QSD makes me a little sad. I continue to go because I love the history of the restaurant and the building. I’m worried, however, if they don’t get their act together, they may close once again. The food is often hit and miss. You’re safe with the corn chowder and the macaroni and cheese; they’re both delicious. The salads are bland and lacking ingredients, and the entrees are so-​so. Last time I dined there, my rolls arrived looking rather petrified and my server seemed a little too tweaky for comfort. There’s an all encompassing aloofness to the place that isn’t excusable. Wait times can be ridiculous & you can easily be forgotten… even when the place is dead.

Went in for lunch on 8÷16÷12. Had the «Quarrier» and a cup of corn chowder. Both were great and the service was great as well. I will definitely go back.

Positive experience in Timothy’s, the downstairs bar, when meeting friends one weeknight. Nice space, though the light up bar was disconcerting even before my first drink. Friendly folks and decent beer selection.

Great food and service. In town for business but will come back to eat.

Avoid. Have to wait a horribly long time for food.
Not kid friendly. Heck, not friendly at all.
Over-​priced.

This review is for Timothy’s, the downstairs bar, under Quarrier Diner. I’ve never eaten in the upstairs dining room, but you can order off it’s menu in the bar area. Both are owned by the same family, and actually the husband and wife were there while we were eating making sure everything as a-​ok. And, it was.
The atmosphere at the place is amazing. There are at least a dozen televisions for watching a game, it has that cozy basement feel, and the bartenders know more than you’d expect about bartending. The bartender went into great detail explaining the differences in scotches when someone down the bar from us ordered a scotch and asked which was best. Another couple asked about gluten free beers, and he quipped up more info for them.
The times that I’ve eaten there, I’ve had the prime rib (the king cut is a seriously big portion), which was amazing, wings (again, also huge) which were very good, too, and the last time, I had the mac and cheese. I think it was the best thing I’ve ordered so far. Prices are very reasonsable. An order of wings is «5» wings, but it’s the whole wing, so it’s really like getting 10. The sauce I had was a sweet sauce, which was okay, but my husband had buffalo, and he really liked it. Since they are a whole wing, they are a bit messy and unwieldy to eat.
They have about 40 beers by the bottle and about 6 or 8 on tap. I’m impressed that they had Rogue Yellow Snow IPA on tap, since you don’t see that much around Charleston. The bar has a shelf devoted to WV spirits, with about 5 offerings from Smooth Ambler in Lewisburg (I didn’t even know they had that many types), which impresses me also.

Six of us had dinner there on a snowy, cold Friday night. The upstairs diner was pretty much empty, so we chose to be served in Timothy’s, the cozy bar downstairs. I had the Porterhouse Pork Chop with herbed butter, and it was the best prepared pork chop I’ve ever had anywhere. Sides of delicious and well-​prepared and seasoned mashed potatoes and peas. (Snow peas were advertized, but it looked like plain old peas to us.). Others in our group like the dishes served to them as well. The drinks were generous, and the staff was friendly and accomodating. Our waitress was excellent, but I was so turned off by the automatically added gratuity of 18% that I didn’t give more. Left to our own voluntary discretion, we would have tipped her more than 20%.