Charlie's Steak House*

User Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

The C and J couple are crazy.
My wife and i have been eating at Charlies Steak House for nearly 6 years now.
Everytime we go in we are completely satiated.
The staff treats us like family, possibly because it is very friendly family owned buisness.
The food is Amazing
I always eat either the T-Bone or Ribeye, and my wife always eats a Filet.
They make nearly everything there from scratch, which include the dressings,fries, and sauces.
If you are looking for more modern places to eat where you get food that comes in frozen and tasteless, and sauces and spices need to be added in order to make the food edible Then this is not the place for you.
If you like awesome food, and great service, go to
Charlies.

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User Rating: 5 out of 5 stars

Charlies is a terrific place to find the very best cuts of beef in Greenville.
If you try the Porterhouse T-Bone you will be amazed at the size of the steak they will bring you. The filet side is as tender as can be and the other side will surely fill you as well.
The Fries and Onion rings are cut and fried in the place and they are AWESOME.
If you are looking for a well decorated and shiney new restaurant than Charlies is NOT for you. However, in my oppinion, when i go out for food, i want GOOD food. I don't care to pay for atmosphere like so many places like to charge for.
If you order ANYTHING on the menu from the NY Strip and up in price you WILL leave feeling full and content..
Jeff

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User Rating: 2 out of 5 stars

I took my wife to Charlie's a few months ago on a tip from a guy at work. We had high hopes of visiting a quaint little steakhouse in downtown Greenville with a rich history and mouth-watering steaks. Those hopes were soon to be dashed.

It appears from some reading (including their website) that Charlie's must have had it's heyday, and they have been active in the Greenville community. But my wife and I weren't visiting for nostalgia - we wanted a great steak dinner in a wonderful atmosphere.

When you first walk in, you notice something is wrong. The place is still decorated from the 60's/70's all the way down to the burnt yellow naugahyde covered seating. The staff is certainly among the friendliest you'll meet, but you get a general impression of "old folks home" upon entering instead of "intimate steakhouse."

We were promptly and politely seated and were told how good the coleslaw was and that the steaks were hand selected and cut fresh - best in the area. We had come for steak, so that's what we ordered. The coleslaw ended up being nothing more than shredded cabbage with your choice of apply-yourself sauce (including homemade ranch and thousand island). Not bad, but nothing to sing praises about. Our biggest disappointment was certainly the steak. I guess the cuts are good (I'm no expert), but these steaks are not grilled at all - there's no flame involved. I didn't check or ask, but I suspect the steaks are simply cooked on a griddle - no sauce, no seasoning (not even salt/pepper). I can understand a purist approach, but this steak was tasteless. My wife and I both had to add all sorts of salt and pepper and steak sauce just to make it edible. And on top of that, the meat was not at all tender either. What a let-down.

All of this would've been a little easier to stomach had their prices not been on the upper-middle echelon. We ended up getting dessert, which was decent, and left about $70 lighter in the wallet. Frankly I can get a better tasting and more tender steak at the Waffle House for $7.

A few month's after this first experience with Charlie's, an out-of-state friend bought us a gift certificate as a thank you for some work I did for them. I guess they found Charlie's from an internet search, and their website is pretty convincing. Since we weren't paying this time, my wife and I decided to give at least the food another try. This time around was no different, except we did discover that the onion rings at Charlie's are pretty good (their fries are not bad either).

So if you're wanting to go back in time about 40 years, be cheerfully and enthusiastically waited on, eat a mediocre meal, and pay too much for it, go to Charlie's in downtown Greenville. If it's a great steak dinner and/or an intimate setting you want, look elsewhere.

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