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Are you looking for restaurants in Travelers Rest, SC? TR, as the locals call it, has many delicious places to enjoy a meal. You’ll find everything from a super kid-friendly coffee shop to a smokehouse, fine dining, and amazing crepes in Travelers Rest. Check out our list and don’t miss our guide to Travelers Rest.

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Breakfast in Travelers Rest

Tandem Creperie: Delicious crepes and coffee. Read more about them in our review of the best places to get breakfast in the Upstate.

TREEhouse Cafe: Breakfast sandwiches, pastries, paninis and lots of coffee options

Upcountry Provisions: Breakfast options like breakfast sandwiches, frittatas, eggs, pastries, avocado toast, kids plates are available

Lunch in Travelers Rest

Monkey Wrench: BBQ brisket, pork, burgers, wings and more. Indoor and outdoor dining space, and take-out.

Sidewall Pizza: Traditional and unique pizzas, homemade ice cream, great breadsticks

TREEhouse Cafe: Lots of delicious sandwich and panini options, and coffee, in a kid-friendly art bar setting with lots of crafts and art you can make for a small fee.

Whistle Stop: train themed cafe

Upcountry Provisions: Unique sandwiches, salads, soups, sides and kids meals are on the menu.

Dinner in Travelers Rest

Monkey Wrench: BBQ pork, brisket, burgers, chicken wings, traditional bbq sides and lots more. The menu is available for take-out, or enjoy indoor and outdoor dining options.

Sidewall Pizza: Traditional and unique pizzas, homemade ice cream, great breadsticks, indoor and outdoor dining

Farmhouse Tacos: Super unique tacos with locally sourced ingredients. Try the fried chicken taco, you won’t be disappointed.

Topsoil Kitchen and Market: Farm-to-table restaurant and market with sandwiches, soups, salads, and several entrees to choose from. The menu varies based on what is fresh and available at local farms

Restaurant 17: Italian and Mediterranean-inspired menu with locally sourced ingredients, located at Hotel Domestique with a beautiful mountain view

Chicora Alley Firehouse Bar & Grill: wings, nachos, street tacos and quesadillas

Shortfields: Sandwiches, salads, burgers and entrees include steak, grilled salmon, pork chops, shrimp and grits, and lots more. This menu is very large with many options.

Dessert in Travelers Rest

Pink Mama’s Ice Cream: Cute ice cream shop with lots of options. There are even a few dairy-free options available. Enjoy your ice cream and frozen treats at tables outside along the Swamp Rabbit Trail.

Romantic Restaurants in TR

Restaurant 17: Italian and Mediterranean-inspired menu with locally sourced ingredients, located at Hotel Domestique with a beautiful mountain view

Restaurants on Main Street, Downtown TR

Best Restaurants For Young Kids in Travelers Rest

TREEhouse Cafe: Enjoy your coffee while your kids paint and make a mess somewhere that isn’t YOUR kitchen. Need we say more?

Monkey Wrench: The outdoor dining space at Monkey Wrench is perfect for giving kids some room to roam. They have a nice yard to explore, plus the restaurant backs up to the Swamp Rabbit Trail so you can watch the people go by as you eat, and even enjoy a walk when you’re done.

Whistle Stop: This restaurant is train-themed and offers kids’ meals.

Best for Business

Need a restaurant for a business meal or a social gathering of co-workers? Try these restaurants in Travelers Rest!

Shortfields: If you’re looking for a menu with lots of options and good variety, Shortfields is what you want in TR.

Farmhouse Taco: It’s a little loud, so this wouldn’t be the place if you needed to hammer out that business deal, but Farmhouse Taco has flexible seating and can accommodate a larger group (definitely recommend reservations), plus their a la carte menu style means everyone should be able to find something they’d like to eat.

Budget Friendly Places to Eat in TR

Sidewall Pizza: Traditional and unique pizzas, homemade ice cream, great breadsticks, indoor and outdoor dining. Their birthday club coupons and other promotions that benefit the community can make a meal at Sidewall very economical.

Take Out Restaurants in TR

While most restaurants offer their menus for take-out, some restaurants offer specials or other take-out friendly advantages.

Monkey Wrench: Full BBQ menu is available for take-out, plus they offer items in bulk so you can get a pound of meat, sauce and the sides you’d like to create a meal for the family.

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In recent years, there has been a growing trend toward multimodal communities – areas in which residents prioritize walkability, bikeability, and access to public transportation. Specifically, these communities are rapidly gaining attention in urban areas, where individuals gravitate toward spaces that promote healthy living and community connectivity.

In order for these new areas to seamlessly integrate into existing communities, development planning requires innovation, expertise, and local insight, all of which Caroline Donaldson possesses. A land planner at leading site design firm, SeamonWhiteside, Donaldson put her six years of multimodal expertise into practice most recently with the Pinestone community in Travelers Rest, South Carolina. Donaldson has found key takeaways from the challenges and creativity it took to design Pinestone.

Travelers Rest is rapidly gaining attention as one of the region’s most desirable areas to live, work, and play. The town’s infamous Swamp Rabbit Trail is a destination for locals and visitors alike, providing walking and biking trails through the beautiful South Carolina landscape. As lead planner for SeamonWhiteside on the Pinestone community project, Donaldson knew that the area needed to be designed for connectivity and rooted in collaboration.

Designed for Connectivity

Donaldson brought connectivity to a whole new level with this project, connecting the new greenway seamlessly with Travelers Rest’s Main Street, and the existing Swamp Rabbit Trail that winds its way to downtown Greenville, S.C. Thoughtfully planned to be walkable and bikeable for people of all ages, the community includes wide sidewalks and many shared greenspaces. A small outdoor amphitheater, several parks, a dog park, and multiple greenway connections to the surrounding area, bring connectivity and accessibility to the development.

As a large infill project in the heart of Travelers Rest, a very unique development approach was required for a community of this size. While many multimodal communities are built as stand-alone projects, Pinestone was built to integrate into the existing fabric of Travelers Rest and expand the pedestrian and bike-friendly network the town is known for. This required local insight, innovation, and drawing on area expertise for seamless integration.

Rooted In Collaboration

Born out of a desire to create a community that prioritized the needs of pedestrians and cyclists and de-emphasized the need for cars, it quickly became apparent that the existing development code of The City of Travelers Rest did not allow for the diverse, multimodal road typologies necessary to support such a vision. Through close collaboration with the City of Travelers Rest, the land planners, including Donaldson, at SeamonWhiteside, were able to create a series of road typologies that included dedicated bike lanes and wider sidewalks to support the larger vision for this pedestrian-friendly community.

One particularly important addition was the alley typology, which allowed for rear-facing garages and enabled houses to face directly onto a park instead of a busy road. While these road sections had been used in other municipalities, they were a first for Travelers Rest and required significant creativity and commitment to bring them to fruition, allowing for a more traditional neighborhood feel.

Through this collaborative effort, Pinestone became a prime example of what a community built with multimodal transportation in mind can look like. Moreover, it helped facilitate a broader shift in Travelers Rest, updating the municipal code to include a more diverse selection of road options that encourage active transportation.

Ultimately, the success in building integrated multimodal communities stems from collaboration and connectivity. SeamonWhiteside worked alongside the owner, PineStone Capital LLC., and the developer, The Randolph Group, to help turn this local development into a reality. As SW+’s lead Land Planner for Pinestone, Caroline Donaldson worked continuously with the project team from initial planning, through rezoning and permitting, and ultimately through construction. The extensive partnership throughout the entire project allowed SeamonWhiteside to keep the goals of the development in focus throughout the process.

The Pinestone community consists of residential spaces such as single-family homes, townhomes, apartments, and live/work units as well as commercial uses still under construction. Proposed commercial spaces include a food hall and various neighborhood-scale retail, restaurant, and office spaces that make it easy for residents to frequent. Throughout this process, SeamonWhiteside has provided Land Planning, Civil Engineering, and Landscape Architecture services for this project.

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On a once-blank wall off of Main Street in Travelers Rest, a story is beginning to take shape.

A rabbit peeking out from a flower patch, the wheels of a bike rolling up a mountain road, the hem of the rider’s dress — all outlined in black paint.

Adam Schrimmer, who started work on the mural on the side of Urban Hare Boutique this week, said it’s the first of three such paintings he will complete in the northern Greenville County town in the coming months. He will also be painting pieces on the side of Loftis Printing and on TR’s Oriental facing the entrance to Travelers Rest coming from US 276.

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Schrimmer, a local artist and owner of Blank Canvas Mural Company, is responsible for other prominent murals in Greenville County, including vibrant displays at Poe Mill and the painting depicting prominent Greenville landmarks and figures at Haywood Mall.

The local business owners in Travelers Rest hired him using a façade improvement grant from the city that covers half of the cost. Schrimmer said the project has been an opportunity to learn more about the bustling town, knowledge he is incorporating in the public art displays.

On the Loftis Printing mural, he will depict people and places from the area’s history, including Dean “Chico” Bolin, a World War II veteran and former coach of the Travelers Rest High School football team, and the Skyland Drive-In movie theater.

The TR’s Oriental mural at the entrance to Main Street will be a nod to Travelers Rest’s role as a gateway to the Blue Ridge Mountain foothills. The image will feature a couple with their feet propped up in the foreground, staring out over the mountainous country to the north of the town, the words “Where Travelers come to Rest” displayed overhead.

At Urban Hare, he said he’s creating a “love story,” inspired by the love residents and business owners have for their town. The piece, which will be painted in the style of a vintage French cycling poster, will include items from the shops connected to Urban Hare, including locally grown flowers from the Katelyn Pinner Studio and oil and vinegar from The Crescent Olive. The concept for the mural itself was inspired by the EE Cummings poem “I Carry Your Heart with Me,” a copy of which Schrimmer found in Urban Hare.

There’s a really fun indoor play space in Travelers Rest that you don’t want to miss. And it includes a relaxing coffee shop for parents. Kristina checked out Palmetto Proper and here’s what to expect.

This review was originally written in 2020 and has been updated in 2023.

“Mom, can we go back tomorrow?” both my kids asked in unison seconds after we left Palmetto Proper, the café/kids play area/retail space in Travelers Rest. My kids are 9 and 6 and I had to drag them out of there!

Palmetto Proper was designed for parents to have a place where they can maybe get a couple things done on their laptop while their kids play safely or catch up with a friend over a cup of delicious coffee and tempting snacks.

Palmetto Proper in downtown Travelers Rest checks all those boxes and more.

Huge Open Space + Cozy Cafe

Travelers Rest has a lot going for it and if I’m ever anywhere near there, I always visit. I just love Sidewall Pizza, TRee House Cafe & Art Studio, and TR Makers.

Yet there has been this gap of an indoor place for kids to get out their energy – but not anymore.

Palmetto Play offers year round, indoor play and a combination of a place where kids can get their energy out plus rest and relaxation for parents.

Palmetto Proper used to have a small retail location in Cherrydale but ended up expanding to the large space in Travelers Rest when it became available since the original owner had a vision of a place where kids could enjoy time to explore and play while parents had a chance to catch their breath, meet for coffee, or just chill out for a bit while their kids got out energy.

Imagination Reigns Supreme

The space is huge with tall ceilings, colorful paint, and a big, padded floor where kids can run around. There is a large play structure with a climbing apparatus and seesaw-like contraption in the middle of the space. There’s a small ball pit, an imitation garden, and farm market.

There is a big loft that will be used for birthday parties or private events that overlooks the play area. Under that are little rooms that are totally geared towards letting kids use their imaginations.

There’s a movie theater room with dress up outfits, little chairs with popcorn holders, and a curtain. This was my kids’ favorite room.

Next to the theater is an adorable grocery market with pasta boxes, plastic produce, and little shopping carts. And next to that room is an animal vet hospital, which has lots of cute medical toys and x-rays.

In the corner by the bathrooms is a construction zone, perfect for kids to build whatever they desire.

Enclosed Little Kids Area

When my kids were a bit smaller, I was always anxious about taking them to indoor places where bigger kids ruled the play structures. Palmetto Proper has a small space that is perfect for kids in that crawling and just-walking stage that is totally enclosed and right next to tables where their parents can easily keep an eye on them.

This is certainly a thoughtful touch.

Actually, the entire kids area is enclosed, which makes it a lot easier to really enjoy that cup of coffee or send those pressing emails and not worry about your kids escaping.

Retail + Coffee

The first thing I noticed when I walked in the door to Palmetto Proper was actually some really fluffy pullovers. I love fluffy pullovers. But there’s more: candles that smell so heavily of vanilla that it makes you want to buy every single one and light them all around your house, tons of Melissa & Doug toys for your kids, super cute dresses and t-shirts, and jewelry and hand towels.

The owners have done a nice job sourcing a good variety of products that will appeal to a wide audience. You could probably get all of your Christmas shopping done.

And the coffee menu also caught my eye with delicious-sounding frappes and spiced chai lattes. They even have juice boxes for kids and lots of snacks because, really, kids essentially run on snacks.

Play Passes + Age Restrictions

As of April 2023, only kids ages 0-6 will be able to use the play space during open play. Palmetto Proper will have board games that older kids can freely use.

Daily admission gets kids access to Palmetto Proper for the whole day. You can go in and out and play when you like. Daily admission is $10 per child.

Monthly, quarterly, and yearly memberships are also available.

Be sure you and your kids wear socks as they are needed to enjoy all the play structures.

Make it a Day Trip

If you don’t live in Travelers Rest and want to explore for the day, hanging out at Palmetto Proper is the ideal way to spend time there. It’s right across the street from the Swamp Rabbit Trail and within walking distance to tons of fabulous places in town like the Whistle Stop Cafe, Sidewall Pizza, TRee House Cafe & Art Studio, TR Makers, Tandem Creperie, and Sunrift Adventures.

There are also lots of cute shops to check out and Trailblazer Park isn’t far away. OH – and Sidewall Pastry and Farmhouse Tacos are literally right next door to Palmetto Proper. We love Travelers Rest so much we wrote a whole guide to it.

Will you check out Palmetto Proper?

Hours: Monday – Saturday – 10 am – 4 pm Sunday – 1 pm – 5 pm *There are occasional modified hours. Check Palmetto Proper for updates.

Palmetto Proper 164 S Main Street, Suite B, Travelers Rest 864.631.6769 Website