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Kitchen Sync opened on Laurens Road back in 2016 and spent most of the decade since as the top independently owned green-certified restaurant in the country, a distinction it held year after year through 2025. That is not just a plaque by the door. It shows up in how the kitchen sources its ingredients and cooks nearly everything from scratch. The menu wanders on purpose. A single page might carry a banh mi salad, a Thai pot pie, and low-country shrimp over grits, and it holds together because it all comes out of the same farm-fresh, made-in-house kitchen. There is a full bar and a real cocktail list to go with it. A few plates have become fixtures worth knowing about: the roasted and flash-fried beets under a smoky aioli, the chop-grilled Meyer natural burger, double-fried wings in a honey-sriracha glaze. Vegetarians and vegans get genuine options here, not an afterthought, which is rarer than it should be. The rest of the menu shifts with the season. Locals have kept it near the top of Greenville's dining lists for years, and it stays small enough that a table is worth planning for. Which globe-hopping plate becomes your regular is the kind of thing you sort out a visit at a time.