Tomorrow night, Friday, Nov. 6, galleries across Greenville open their doors from 6 to 9 p.m. for the Metropolitan Arts Council's First Friday gallery crawl. In the Village of West Greenville, the crawl follows the same addresses it has for years. The galleries and studios lining Pendleton Street and its side streets set the route. The restaurant spaces between them are where the street keeps changing.
You can see it in the last two changes. A bar on Lois Avenue closed and became a kitchen that rotates food startups. A storefront at 1233 Pendleton St. that once housed LashBar and Red@28th is being finished as a 77-seat Italian restaurant from the chef behind Scoundrel. This is the last First Friday before that restaurant opens, so tomorrow's walk passes the Village one more time as it looks now.
The galleries are the fixed points
The Village of West Greenville's business directory lists more than a dozen galleries and working studios within a few blocks. These are the stops to know before Friday.
| Stop | Address | Worth knowing for Nov. 6 |
|---|---|---|
| Spoonbill Gallery | 1292 Pendleton St. | Showing "Forest for the Trees," a solo exhibition by Asheville painter Moni Hill, on MAC's Nov. 6 calendar |
| Art & Light Gallery | 16 Aiken St. | Celebrated its 20th anniversary this year with its annual small works exhibition in August |
| Flatiron Gallery | 1211 Pendleton St. | The first gallery on the Pendleton stretch when you walk in from downtown |
| Greenville Center for Creative Arts | 101 Abney St. | Houses individual artist studios at the same address |
| 906 Art Gallery and Shelley Cade Studio | 46 Lois Ave. | Off Pendleton, on the same block as Hone |
| Bone and Ink Studios | 8 Lois Ave. | Next door to Hone |
| Artistry Workshops and Gallery | 12 Andrews St. | A short detour north of Pendleton |
Pendleton Street also has a row of working studios. The directory places Common Studios at 1256, Darin R. Gehrke Ceramics at 1266, Ellis Gallery and Studio at 1284, Joseph Bradley Studio at 1290 and Artbomb Studios at 1320. These are artists' workspaces as much as showrooms, and the directory doesn't list crawl-night hours for each one. Look for lit windows and open doors as you walk.
The gallery influence reaches the dining rooms too. Earlier this year, The Anchorage on Perry Avenue hung an exhibition in partnership with Art & Light from Jan. 6 to April 7, 2026.
The food spaces are where the street turns over
12 Lois Ave. shows how fast those spaces change. Driftwood, a bar at that address, scheduled its last service for Aug. 9, 2025, after a little over a year, as the Upstate Business Journal reported. The next tenant was built around turnover from the start. Hone, a nonprofit restaurant incubator, opened there in December 2025 and held its grand opening on Jan. 8, 2026, according to the Greenville Journal.
At its opening, Hone's lineup was Coffee Coffee, Daylight Burrito, The Tasti Plate, Muni Muni and LolaCeli. WYFF reported that the startups rotate weekly and pointed customers to Hone's weekly schedule and social media to see who is cooking. In practice, the kitchen at 12 Lois Ave. on Friday may not serve the same food it served a month ago. Check the schedule before you count on a particular concept for dinner.
The second change is a few doors up Pendleton. The space at 1233 Pendleton St. has been renovated for Dootsie's, which the Greenville Journal reported on Oct. 26 will open in early December.
What is going into 1233 Pendleton St.
Dootsie's is the second restaurant from chef Joe Cash, a 2026 James Beard Award finalist whose downtown restaurant, Scoundrel, kept its Michelin star for 2026. It is named for his grandmother, whose nickname was Dootsie. The menu centers on her bell-pepper-heavy spaghetti bolognese from the Sunday dinners Cash grew up eating at her house in Greenville. According to the Greenville Journal, he has been developing the restaurant for two years.
The Journal's report covers the details that will shape a weeknight dinner there:
- The menu: mostly pasta entrees, with fresh pasta rolled daily by chef Tony Keely. Robert Yates is chef de cuisine.
- Dishes named so far: Cash's version of the family spaghetti with sirloin and bell peppers, fried house-pulled fontina, and ravioli tre volte with beef cheek, celery root and bordelaise.
- The room: 77 seats around a glass-enclosed pasta room, with multicolor tile floors, terracotta countertops, cream stucco walls and handmade wood tables from Greenville. Watercolors by Cash's great-aunt, Dootsie's sister, will hang on the walls. Katie Skoloff of In Site Designs worked with Cash on the design.
- Hours and booking: starting in December, dinner Tuesday through Saturday, with online reservations through Resy.
Cash described the goal to the Greenville Journal in one line:
"Dootsie's represents the next chapter of my life, and I want it to feel like a place that's always been part of yours."
The paper also reported that he wants it to be a place for a casual weeknight dinner as much as a special celebration. That puts a regular dinner spot at the downtown end of the same block as the studio row, where until now the address mostly meant a renovation in progress.
A route for Friday, in address order
Pendleton Street numbers rise as you head west from 1211, so you can walk the crawl in one direction and branch onto the side streets. All names and addresses come from the Village directory.
- 1211 Pendleton St. Start at Flatiron Gallery.
- 1225 to 1233 Pendleton St. Pass Phase II Express and Empanadas Y Pastries, both at 1225, then the future Dootsie's at 1233.
- 1254 to 1269 Pendleton St. This is the densest block. Coastal Crust Greenville is at 1254, Common Studios at 1256 and The Village Grind at 1258. Rise Bakery is at 1264, Darin R. Gehrke Ceramics at 1266 and The Rabbit Hole at 1268. Bar Margaret sits across at 1269.
- 1284 to 1296A Pendleton St. Ellis Gallery and Studio is at 1284, Naked Pasta at 1286 and Joseph Bradley Studio at 1290. Spoonbill Gallery at 1292 has the Moni Hill show, and Revival Butchery is at 1296A.
- 1320 Pendleton St. Artbomb Studios is the last stop on the main stretch.
- Lois Avenue. Bone and Ink Studios is at 8, Hone at 12, and 906 Art Gallery and Shelley Cade Studio at 46.
- Perry Avenue. The building at 556 Perry Ave. holds Unlocked Coffee Roasters, Six + Twenty Distillery, Carolina Bauernhaus Brewery & Winery and 80/20 Cafe. Kuka Juice is at 580, and The Anchorage and Taxihouse Wines share 586.
- Aiken and Abney streets. Finish at Art & Light, 16 Aiken St., or the Greenville Center for Creative Arts, 101 Abney St.
The directory doesn't list Friday evening hours for each business, so call ahead or check each shop's own page before you plan dinner. The crawl's 6 to 9 p.m. window covers the galleries taking part, and some restaurants keep their own hours.
Dec. 4 is the next one
First Friday falls on Dec. 4 next month, and the same 6 to 9 p.m. window applies. Dootsie's has said only "early December," so it may or may not be serving by that crawl. Reservations will go through Resy once it opens. The Hone schedule will likely have changed again by then too. The galleries will be at the same addresses on Pendleton, Lois, Aiken and Abney.
If you want to know what a new restaurant or a changing block means for the homes nearby, Atherley & Pearson Real Estate is glad to talk it through over coffee in the Village. Contact Us.
