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Wade’s Restaurant in Spartanburg is a James Beard America’s Classics Award winner

February | Upstate institution Wade’s Restaurant was named a 2024 James Beard America’s Classics Winner.
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Wade’s Restaurant, which first opened in 1947, is one of just six restaurants named a 2024 James Beard America’s Classics Winner.

The Spartanburg institution joins restaurants from New York, Las Vegas, San Francisco, and Philadelphia on the prestigious list.

“When you think of a James Beard award, you think of restaurants that are really high-profile,” owner Wade “Hamp” Lindsey Jr. says. “I guess you just don’t expect it’s going to happen to a small hometown restaurant. I just always pictured it as being someone else other than us.”

Why Wade's won

Asked

Design your perfect meat-and-three

A. Fried chicken, mac and cheese, green beans + sweet potato souflee

B. Meat loaf, creamed potatoes and gravy, lima beans + cornbread dressing

C. Turkey and dressing, cole slaw + broccoli and cheese

D. Homemade chicken pie, turnip greens, rice with gravy + English peas

Plus, pecan pie for dessert

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