Spice Diner — Restaurant in Five Forks

I moved to Greenville about a year ago and have been looking for that special local restaurant that becomes my go too and ladies and gentlemen I have found it!

The Spice Diner is by far the best restaurant I have eaten at since moving here. Let's start with the menu. It's a larger menu with quite a few amazing dishes to choose from but it's not overwhelming large. The price point for this restaurant is excellent, I paid 19.05 for a lot of food. Honestly I feel they may be a bit underpriced.

I order lunch for me and my mother via a phone pickup order. The staff member that answered the phone was polite and extremely helpful. She made sure everything was correct and insured I had everything I needed before hanging up. When picking up the gentleman at the drive thru was incredibly courteous and friendly. I order the chicken sandwich and chili cheese fries, my mom ordered the steak finger meal and substituted a baked potato for the fries. The food was nicely packaged and hot when I got home with no errors or issues.

Let's talk about the food......... freaking amazing! The chicken sandwich was crispy and well seasoned with lettuce, mayo and tomato. The Chili cheese fries were salty pieces of heaven covered in gooey cheese and chili. The steak fingers were well seasoned and tender but the stand out was that baked potato! My gosh that was the best baked potato me or my mom had ever had! Well seasoned, soft and just perfect!

Now as much as I loved the food I was not a huge fan of the chili, I am just use to a more wet chili, this felt more like chili flavored ground beef, but still delicious. The other thing was the steak fingers, back in Tucson, Arizona there was a place called Lucky Wishbone that did steak fingers that were more crunchy and we are just missing that. However these are amazing just not our style.

Overall The Spice Diner is a amazing local restaurant that definitely deserve your business. Take the family and partake in some of the best food I have in Greenville. We will definitely be back to try everything...

Second time I’ve been to this place. First time my bf and I noticed that I was the only person of color in the restaurant and our waitress definitely treated us differently than the rest of the customers. We didn’t think much of it, food was okay. Nothing special. Decided to give it another shot because we were both hungry and didn’t want to wait at other restaurants. Again noticed that I was the only person of color in the restaurant. We got a different waitress our second time around, but again she was short with us. She came by took our drink order and asked us if we were ready, let her know we needed a few mins and she left rather annoyed. After a few mins she came back to take our order and a different person brought it out for us. After that she didn’t stop by at all. Not even to make sure our order was right or if we needed anything else. We see her helping other groups of people and being very friendly to them but hasn’t even glanced over at our table. I’m not sure if this is just their regular service or if it is due to the fact that I’m a person of color. Regardless if this is how they treat all their customers equally I honestly don’t understand how these customers keep coming back. If you want good food and good customer service do not come here. Whoever is running this pace needs to seriously re-evaluate their business. The ceiling tiles are stained, air vents are dirty from all the dust that’s in the place, the window sills are grimy and dusty. If I could give this place 0 stars I totally could. I’ve managed million dollar restaurants before and whenever a guest/customer gave us feedback good or bad I applied it to better my business. I hope the owner or manager reads this review and takes a close look at the reputation they...

This was our second visit in 2 years. The reason we didn't go back for so long was because we had a server that just had a very poor attitude, it was like we were interupting her day. Not very attentive and it wasn't busy. But the food was good that we ordered was good (mostly burger and hotdog type food) Fast forward 2 years to today and same exact thing except this time, the same server same attitude and this time burger and hotdogs and fries were good, but everything else seemed very out of the can and not much flavor. There server was nice to us when we paid the check and were leaving. (Note, my wife and myself asworked as servers for many years, out two oldest work in restaurant business and all of agreed that the food and the service was not what we expected at all. ) I guess we will hit up the drive-thru next time if we make it here again for burgers and hotdogs and fries.) Sorry for the negative review, but they really need to work on the customer service and flavor for things other than burgers and hotdogs and fries. The burgers and fries and hotdogs are really...