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| - This is mostly a bar/restaurant that caters to WNY transplants. I myself lived in WNY for a while, and one of its few redeeming qualities is the food. Towne Tavern matches 2 of the food staples there: the wings and the haddock fish fry. In WNY, you get 4 choices of wings: hot, medium, mild, and char-b-q. Hot is straight up Frank's hot sauce, medium is half hot sauce and half melted butter, and mild is about 2/3 melted butter and one third hot sauce. Char-b-q wings are partially deep fried, and then placed over an open flame with sauce. Towne Tavern doesn't serve those, but they serve the hot, medium, and mild to WNY specifications. Yes, they have things like terriyaki flavored wings, but those would be a sin in WNY.That would be like serving iced tea from a fountain in the Carolinas. The wings are made fresh and are very good.
The haddock fish fry is actually better than a lot I have had in WNY. It's two large pieces of haddock beer battered served with slaw and your choice of side.
Another favorite menu item is tavern terriyaki which is grilled steak or chicken with terriyaki sauce served with a salad and cold spinach fettuccine noodles. The combination works very well together.
The rest of the menu items such as burgers and sandwiches are slightly better than what you would find at most bars. The WNY beef on weck sandwich is okay but it's far from what you would get in Buffalo.
They have a good selection of bottle beers, but could probably use some more on tap. They usually only have Old Meck Copper and one other one. The service is usually pretty good here too, though the wait staff is noticeably younger than a lot of other taverns/bars/restaurants in the area.I also give them props for being the first bar/restaurant in Fort Mill to ban smoking, and oce they had the cojones to do it, most other places stopped it before the ban even went into effect.
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