Brick Street Cafe

We stopped by for dessert. The band was wonderful. Everyone was dancing. Our waiter was attentive and helpful. The sweet potato cake and German chocolate cake were superb. Just trust me word on the sweet potato cake. Sounds weird but is the best thing you will ever put in your mouth. I will be back, after a few trips to they gym.

I’m bummed to hear about others’ bad experiences at Brick Street Café. I’ve been here twice for business lunches and had very good experiences both times.
I had the lunch special on my first visit, which was phenomenal. There was a ton of good food for an unbeatable price. The second time I had shrimp and grits — a southern staple. It was good but not great. Certainly not on par with Larkin’s shrimp and grits quality, but still darn good for the price. Wait staff has always been very nice and attentive.
The place is big and open and does have a very «busy» atmosphere. As others have mentioned, the décor is very kitschy. Those might be turn-​offs for some and selling points for others. In my humble opinion they give Brick Street unique energy and character. I’ll keep going back.

Parking is available in the front and in the back. I love this restaurant. Their food is awesome and their desserts are even better!
Came here for a bridal shower. We were sat at a long table. Service was a little slow. No matter what time you go in there, the restaurant is always packed! I got the spaghetti and salad. Spaghetti was a good portion for lunch. I love the meat sauce but I wasn’t a fan of the large tomatoes in it.
The salad was good. Nice mix of greens. My favorite dressing there is the house dressing (vidalia onion). You can also buy it too! My sister bought it for $ 8 and it was in a large wine bottle.
I’m not a fan of sweet potato in general but you have to try their sweet potato cake. It is so moist and it literally melts in your mouth. The icing is amazing too! I also got the chocolate cake. It’s served warm with whip cream. It was really sweet. A lot of people at our table liked it. Icing on it was very rich.
Overall, I will come back here. It’s a staple in Greenville!

I came here with a big party for a holiday dinner last month. The food took an hour to be made. There was no free bread so we were definitely getting hungry, the salad was small and mediocre, the waitress was gone most of time time and people in my party were getting aggravated that they weren’t getting refills or any service.
Best of all we realized we had been charged $ 11 more for our special group package price than it would have cost us if we just ordered a la carte (the meal came with a salad, entrée, soft drink, and desert for $ 33). I called the restaurant to inquire a few days later and the daughter of the owner answered the phone, I brought it to her attention and she said, you guys agreed on that price, «I don’t make the rules, I just follow them». I was not refunded for the difference and I nor anyone I know will ever be at this restaurant again.

The lunch was OK, but please, please, do not miss out on the Sweet Potato Cake! Yum!

I was just passing by, and wasn’t hungry at all, but this place was recommended to me by multiple people, so I needed to give it a shot. The interior is bright and fun and crazy and looks so cozy. It’s a theory of mine that the more eccentric a restaurant’s interior, the better the food. .. and I am happy to say my theory continues to hold true!
The tomato dill soup was lovely, and I had a special halibut entrée that came with risotto and a asparagus with a cream sauce that was to die for. I ordered a piece of that sweet potato cake to take home, and It was so huge and so heavy and so delicious that I might now be a supporter of obesity.
And, I think I saw a review that said the sweet potato cake was their wedding cake? That’s going to be a successful marriage.

I just stopped for the first time for lunch. I’m a new citizen of Greenville. I was very disappointed. I had a shrimp salad and it was skimpy, 4 shrimp, 2 baby tomatoes, 3 slices of cucumber, 1 strawberry, about 2.5 oz of mixed greens for a grand price of $ 10. My friend had a sandwich and a cup of soup for $ 10. The cup of soup was an additional $ 1.50.
5 $ for two classes of tea (unsweetened). The place is loud, we asked for a quiet table and they placed us facing a order station with 5 other tables filled and lots of empty tables all around. The décor is just thrown together junk. The lights are nice though.
Just disappointed with a place I thought would be good. Save your money.

We went to this place because a friend suggested it would be a good place for a quiet, relaxing, and personal environment. This was anything but. The general atmosphere of this place is busy. They have several nooks that are supposed to be a more private space, but every wall of this place is painted and decorated differently. It comes off as very eclectic, and makes it hard to focus on what is going on at your table. There was also a live band, which would have been nice except it was so loud we had to shout at each other to have conversation.
Our dinner guest arrived, and ordered the $ 27 buffet. I have paid this much for buffets before, but all the food was cold. Our food order was taken in segments, which to me was just odd and uncomfortable. It really made it hard to focus on enjoying the evening when it didn’t feel like we were a priority. They did bring me potato chips, and the wine was good. There is definitely no complaining about the dessert menu, but it is hard to see past cold food.

This place is truly awful. The ham and swiss looks like something you would pack a 2^nd grader for lunch in a lunchbox. I ordered the ultimate grilled cheese on wheat over the kaiser. When it arrived it was basically cheese on bread. I sent it back to be grilled and 15 minutes later it came back as grilled but just with American cheese – not as described on the menu. I sent it back yet again and it was returned correctly, but burnt. It had maybe 4 teeny tiny pieces of bacon on it. It was pathetic. Really – not good at all. The place was busy and the service was slow. Waiter was running all over the place. Failed to bring napkins or silverware. Brought the wrong drinks. Still charged us for the sandwich. I don’t know how they have good reviews. The table next to us just said this is the worst service they have ever experienced. Don’t waste your time – plenty of good restaurants downtown to eat at this place.

Excellent food and customer service. We’ve been back a few times and continue to be impressed! The Ruben is delicious and I would strongly suggest it! The peanut butter cake is also yummy!

We had our wedding reception here back in 2008 and have since moved from the area… but I can’t wait to drive back down for our anniversary this fall! The food, the atmosphere, the people… Brick Street is a rarity these days. And of course, the sweet potato cake is amazing!

This is based solely on the sweet potato cake, as I’ve not eaten there. Its legit and worth indulging in, especially with out of town guests. But split a piece, they are huge and incredibly rich.. .you can practically taste the butter!

Best. Desserts. In. Greenville.
The desserts at this place are so ridiculously good. Their Sweet Potato Cake is legendary. Their Peanut Butter Chocolate cake is amazing. In fact, it’s pretty much impossible to choose wrong. I don’t write a lot of reviews, but when I did a search on Greenville desserts and didn’t find Brick Street Café at the forefront of the list, I decided it was time to take action. If you have a sweet tooth, try this place out. Seriously.

I’ve eaten here about 6 or 7 times. It is definitely not my favorite. As a male, I am usually outnumbered about 200 – 1. I know, that would usually be great, but I’m married and its typically an older crowd. The food is good, its just not the style I usually pick if I’m by myself. The quiche is great as well as the tomato soup. The deserts are the high point! It is very loud in here, which kind of defeats the purpose of a business lunch, unless you are used to yelling at your clients:)

5 star deserts! 3 star entrees. The sweet potato cake was as advertised — awesome. Chocolate cake and peanut butter pie equally as good. Two, of us did the buffet… good pork tenderloin & chicken… poor effort on shrimp & grits (pasty — thick)… Crab cakes were bland.
Spaghetti with meat sauce entrée was good as was grilled chicken salad. Waitress was very nice and attentive once they sorted out whose table we were. Would not go out of my way for the food, but would for the deserts.

Normally we really like eating here. Plus they have the best cakes and pies anywhere!
However, today, at lunch I ordered something I’ve never had there before, their ultimate grilled cheese sandwich. On a Sat. afternoon, the place was packed but it didn’t take long to get our food. Whaaat?! My sandwich, instead of being on a kaiser roll, was on an open faced plain hamburger bun. And not even a decent hamburger bun, at that. By the time I realized it, the waiter was long gone. Since they were so busy, I shrugged and tried to eat it, since they were so slammed. Ugh, it tasted even worse than it looked, which was awful. When the young waiter came back around to check on us, and asked the obligatory, «How is everything», I asked him when they started using cheap hamburger buns on this particular sandwich. He looked puzzled and said it’s always been on a kaiser roll. Yes, but this is on a cheap bun as you can see. Then he asks me if I liked it anyway. Whaaat? I said, no, it’s terrible. He said sorry and left. I assumed someone would come by to «make it right.» Didn’t happen. The same young waiter came back later with the check. For the full amount. I’m upset both with myself, for not demanding they take it back and at the young man waiting on us, perhaps for not being trained in proper customer service. True, this was the only bad experience we’ve had here, but it’s worth noting for the management’s awareness.

This was the worst dining experience in over a decade. Rusty, our server, was unbelievably rude and inattentive. If I could, I would have fired him on the spot. We asked for coffee and it took so long we almost went to get it ourselves. Finally, when he served it, he overflowed the cups and spilled on the table and just wakked away without a word. The only time he tried to be polite was at tip time, which he did not get. Food is way overpriced for what you get and the horrible server negated anything that might have been positive. This once great place has fallen mightily and we will tell our friends as well. We will never return.

This place is SO cute! I love how they have mismatched plates & dining tables. The décor & ambiance is very appealing.
Now on to the food.
We went on a Friday night while in town for a race. We were greeted and seated immediately. We started off with a crab cake appetizer, which was amazing! Definitely order the crab cake when you go!
I got the Rhu Chicken for my entrée and the husband got Shrimp & Grits. My chicken tasted really good. It was stuffed with a cream cheese mix, which was heavily. The cream cheese stuffing was better than the chicken! It also came with rice pilaf which was a bit tasteless & asparagus.
The husband’s entrée was actually very good. If you don’t like cheese, then don’t get this entrée. It was loaded with cheese, which I happen to LOVE! The grits tasted great and he said the shrimp was really good too (I didn’t get to try them sadly.)
Each entrée also came with a house or Cesar salad. We both chose the house salad with their house vidalia onion vinaigrette dressing. The dressing was VERY oniony. I would just get ranch if I were you.
We did chose a dessert. We got the Paddy Cake I wish we would have went with the coconut cake… don’t get me wrong the paddy cake was good, but there was a lot going on there. And the drizzle was very rich.
All in all I loved this place, and it has it’s own parking lot, so you don’t have to search far for parking.

I went a year ago with my husband and wasn’t impressed and decided to go today with my girlfriend and I’m still not impressed. First of all the food is over rated and over priced. There is nothing special about the flavors if the sandwiches. Nothing that sets them apart from any other deli. Their sandwiches can’t even compare to Jason’s deli. Their deserts is the only thing they got going for them. For five dollars you get a very large slice of cake. I have had the coconut and paddy cake and both were delicious. But the service was terrible. I had to ask the waitress to wait on us and she made us feel we were the least important table in the room.

Wow — a great lunch well worth the detour from I-​85. The steak salad, Ultimate Grilled Cheese, and cakes were all fantastic. Save room for dessert.
Tips for interstate travelers: stop in Greenville for a couple hours. Check out the city park (complete with waterfall), walk around town a bit, and eat at the Brick Street Café.