SUP DOGS-New Restaurant in Downtown Greenville

Sup Dogs, the newest restaurant at a popular downtown Greenville location, the corner of Fifth and Reade streets, specializes in chili dogs, as its name suggests.

The fast casual restaurant and bar with all ABC permits serves 100 percent beef hot dogs and burgers but also has some vegetarian options. Everything on the menu is under $6.

The Sup Dog ($4.99) is topped with 16-ingredient homemade chili that's simmered for four hours; add slaw or cheese for 50 cents more. The Sup Burg ($5.49) is a hamburger topped with lettuce, tomato, onion, dill pickle and special sauce. The Slaw Burg ($5.99) features slaw and chili. The menu also includes BLT on a hot dog bun ($5.49) and the Sup Melt with turkey and ham on a hot dog bun ($5.99). The Veggie Burg is made with a slightly spicy black bean burger ($5.99). All sandwiches are served with thin shoestring fries.

Appetizers include chili cheese fries ($5.99), beer-battered onion rings ($5.49) and Pigs in a Blanket (fried corn dog nuggets served with syrup for $4.99).

Old-fashioned milk shakes ($3.49) and Itty Bitz small ice cream balls ($3.49) are available, along with the Sup Ball ($4.49), a ball of ice cream rolled in toasted coconut and covered in caramel and whipped cream.

Specialty cocktails and Sup Tinis are served, along with draft beer, 14 bottled beers and Coca-Cola products. Drink specials are offered nightly.

Hot dogs are available for $1 on Sundays, and jumbo hot wings are 49 cents each on Sundays.

Owner Derek Oliverio said he searched the East Coast for the perfect spot for his first restaurant - and thinks he's found it, just steps from the East Carolina University campus beside The Stop Shop convenience store.

Extensive renovations to the location - which formerly has housed such restaurants as La Vista Pizza and The Back Porch - have included revamping the dining room with wood paneling and booths to seat 40. There are four small flat-screen televisions in the dining room. The popular outdoor deck, a prime people-watching spot which seats another 40 people, has been upgraded and adorned with tiki torches.

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