Abanico Tapas Bar, Restaurant & Music Info
Amenities
From the business
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Identifies as Latino-owned
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Identifies as women-owned
Service options
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Curbside pickup
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Delivery
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Drive-through
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Takeout
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Dine-in
Highlights
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Fast service
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Live music
Popular for
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Dinner
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Solo dining
Accessibility
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Wheelchair accessible entrance
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Wheelchair accessible parking lot
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Wheelchair accessible restroom
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Wheelchair accessible seating
Offerings
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Alcohol
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Beer
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Cocktails
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Coffee
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Comfort food
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Happy hour drinks
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Happy hour food
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Hard liquor
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Healthy options
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Late-night food
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Small plates
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Vegetarian options
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Wine
Dining options
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Dinner
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Catering
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Dessert
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Seating
Amenities
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Bar onsite
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Gender-neutral restroom
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Restroom
Atmosphere
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Casual
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Cozy
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Trendy
Crowd
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Family-friendly
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Groups
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LGBTQ+ friendly
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Tourists
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Transgender safespace
Planning
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Accepts reservations
Payments
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Credit cards
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Debit cards
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NFC mobile payments
Children
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High chairs
Parking
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Free street parking
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Paid parking garage
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Paid parking lot
Pets
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Dogs allowed outside
Other
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LGBTQ+ friendly
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Identifies as women-owned
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Identifies as Latino-owned
Best WLM Reviews
We have had several meals at this location and have been pleased in the past with food quality. Tonight, however, our food did not meet the same standard. Several of our dishes came out charred. As seen in the picture, the empanada was inedible. We had an eggplant dish that was burned to the extent you could not put a fork in it. The waitress initially offered a refund for the uneaten dishes and a discount which we were happy to accept. When we questioned the lack of a discount on the receipt she rudely claimed she was trusting our food was burned yet she had no way to touch or test it. This was not true, as the picture again proved, the burning was apparent even from a distance. We have always enjoyed our meals here and were extremely disappointed by our experience tonight.
Came by tonight to try the new food menu - great food & great service from Cam! Ordered the arepa de queso, yucas fritas, and pinchos de sirlon. I subbed rice & beans for the potatoes with the pinchos (would recommend). Yuca fritas were my favorite - loved the homemade mustard sauce. Also enjoyed the drinks & the bartender (Cam) mentioned they’re putting out a new cocktail menu soon.
We ordered the paella it was a very small portion, 1 clam,1mini shrimp, 1 calamari ring and 1 small mussel! This rice was like risotto. Just bad. we also ordered a pitcher of red Sangria … it was missing the brandy and tasted like a bad bottle of wine with fruit in it! Though it looked good. Sorry it’s a never again for us !
Love the music and look of the restaurant. The bartender who took care of us was really nice! The food wasn't the best though. The fried fish nuggets were really good and my favorite bite of food, the fried shrimp had a reallllyyyy thick corn dog like batter, so the inside of the batter was kinda undercooked....i couldnt finish them . The garlic shrimp had no flavor, and the crab salad was oddly sweet. The potatoes were really good...I tried the Spanish style ones and it was a smokey kind of spicy sauce on it. They do have a really good sangria!
We showed up, with only one other couple inside at the time.
We ordered the fried calamari, marinated olives, and the bread.
The calamari was over battered and tasteless. It was very chewy. And came with a mayonnaise sauce that tasted like it and garlic powder added.
The bread was toasted plain and came with some sort of mayonnaise sauce that tasted like it had garlic powder added to it. I think this was the same stuff that the calamari came with.
The “marinated olives” were simply pimento stuffed olives of the variety you might have in your own refrigerator right now.
Our server was friendly, but that did not change the fact that the food was so that we just asked for our check. We paid the discounted $10 check and left a tip for our server, who did a great job.
I should have known it wasn’t going to be a good experience when after sitting 15-20 minutes no one greeted us. I went up to one of the servers and told her we had a show to get to and asked if our waitress could take our order. She said our waitress was downstairs doing something, and she offered to grab our order. Food and atmosphere was ok at best, nothing fancy at all. Cheap silverware and plates. The waitress said she put our food in right away and we thanked her. The table who ordered right before us got their food rather quickly, so I was excited it wouldn’t take forever for our food to come out. The tapas came out separately, which was not ideal, but not a big deal. Everything came out besides the croquettes and the paella, and after waiting about 30 mins she said that they should be out shortly and offered to pack it up to go if we needed it since we had a show to get to. (Why I would want to pay all this money to just take food to go beats me), but I said we still had 15 mins before we had to leave and expected it would be ready shortly. After 5 more minutes the manager apologized and said they “lost part of our ticket” and he would discount our check. I said ok and continued to wait. We got the croquettes a couple minutes later. 10 more minutes went by and I walked up asked for the check and asked them to just take the paella off and give us the discount so we could leave. They only took off $7 for the paella and $5 “discount” for the wait and horrible service. The Paella normal goes for $11 and for restaurant week they had 3 tapas for $26 which comes out to $8.66 per tapa, and we waited about an hour for two of the tapas (croquettes and paella) so really we should have gotten at least a $17 off for the food that took so long (or never came). They only gave us $12 which barely covers the paella they said they would take off. I talked to the one female manager and mentioned the “discount” the male manager offered and she said the discount was the $5 empanada they took off plus the $7 (which didn’t even cover the actual price) for the paella that I told them to take off cause we had to leave and couldn’t take food togo into the Theater. I will never ever go to or eat here again, food was sub par at best and the service and ambiance in general was horrible. Super disappointed.
Dined in on a Wednesday night. We had not been to Greenville before and were on a stopover on our way to Chattanooga. There was only one other couple in the restaurant. We ordered the sangria which was nothing special. Tasted like the Costco sangria out of the bottle. Then tried the bread and calamari. Both came with the same mayonnaise-like sauce. Bread was not great and uniform fried calamari circles, though crisp, were salty. Then we ordered the octopus. Salty and chewy balls of octopus on bland potato circles. We finished with the seafood paella which was so salty I could feel my blood pressure rising when I ate it. Not worth our 130 dollar tab. That being said, our hostess and server (same young lady) was very nice and our food came out quickly.
Great place for Tapas and cocktails. Food is very good and the staff is very friendly!
Quick Facts About Abanico Tapas Bar, Restaurant & Music
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Opening Hours
| Sunday | Closed |
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| Monday | 02:00 AM - 09:00 PM |
| Tuesday | Closed |
| Wednesday | 02:00 AM - 10:00 PM |
| Thursday | 04:00 PM - 02:00 AM |
| Friday | 04:00 PM - 02:00 AM |
| Saturday | 04:00 PM - 02:00 AM |
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