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Neal S. Blaisdell Center is a event venue located in Honolulu. They offer community center, performing arts theater, concert hall and auditorium services. Rated 4.3 stars from 2693 Google reviews.

Hawaii Convention Center is a convention center located in Honolulu. They offer service and event venue services. Rated 4.4 stars from 2334 Google reviews.

Suga Pie Honeybun started as a dessert menu, which is where the name comes from, and grew into a full service catering and personal chef company led by Greenville native Ebony Sullivan. She learned to cook in her grandmother's kitchen and built the business around one promise: letting you be a guest at your own event. In practice that means she and her team handle everything, from the menu to florals, linens, lighting, tableware, and service staff, with a bartender on request. Each event starts with a consultation on concept, budget, and menu, then gets built to order, whether it is a wedding, a gala, a church function, a holiday party, or the corporate work she has been growing into. The food carries an unmistakable Southern spin. Customer favorites run to fried lobster, brisket, and smoked mac and cheese, alongside the desserts that started it all, including a signature strawberry lemonade layer cake. She is comfortable at scale, having once turned out 1,500 desserts for a single corporate event. True to the company motto, "here to serve," she partners with Greenville's Ronald McDonald House, donating food to families whose children are in treatment. Regulars tend to describe her the same way: organized, professional, and easy to work with. Because every menu is curated to the occasion, the samples posted online are only a starting point, and what she would build for your event is a conversation, not a set list.

Smoky Dreams is the little red building at the corner of Woodruff Road and Highway 14, the kind of spot most of us have driven past a hundred times on a shopping run before finally pulling in. A family started it back in 2014 on a simple idea: rubs and sauces made from scratch, and meat smoked over wood every day. They have run it under the motto "where everyone is family" ever since. The heart of the menu is the smoke. Brisket, pulled pork, smoked chicken, ribs, and wings, all cooked low with their own seasoning blends until they pull apart clean. The sides are half the reason people keep coming back, from mac and cheese and potato salad to Carolina hash, a sharp vinegar slaw, and the sweet potato crunch that regulars single out by name. Soups rotate with the season, and there is creamy lemon pie and peanut butter pie waiting if you save room. The catering arm is real, not an afterthought, which is where the rest of the name earns its keep. The brisket in particular has built a following among Upstate folks who take their barbecue seriously. Ask ten regulars for their order and you'll get ten answers. Finding yours is the whole point.

If you've been to a Greenville wedding or a company event over the last twenty years, there's a fair chance you've eaten their food without realizing it. Table 301 Catering is the events arm of the Table 301 restaurant family, and that lineage is the point. Rather than a standalone kitchen, it draws on a group of established local restaurants, which is how a caterer ends up with two decades of chef-driven cooking behind a rehearsal dinner or a corporate lunch. The work covers the full range of events: weddings and receptions, corporate and social gatherings, showers, and private dinners. Menus are built to the occasion, from passed hors d'oeuvres and stations to buffets and full plated service, and the team handles the logistics too, from planning and staffing to setup, bar, and cleanup. What comes up again and again is the attention to detail. Custom menus get shaped around the client, dietary needs like gluten-free and dairy-free are worked in without fuss, and the technique-forward cooking is part of the group's standing across the Upstate. Guests tend to describe the tastings as closer to a full multi-course dinner than a sample plate. The menu you'd actually serve gets designed in conversation, and by most accounts that first tasting is where people make up their minds.

Cakes n' Conversations builds one custom cake at a time, each designed around whatever you bring to owner Rhonda rather than pulled from a set catalog. This is a by-request shop rather than a walk-in display case: the order starts as a description of what you have in mind, and the cake gets built to match it. Themed occasion cakes are the heart of it, and the range is wide. Past orders have gone from a "13 Going on 30" movie theme to a full cheetah print, so a child's birthday, a wedding tier, or an offbeat one-off request all land in the same wheelhouse. Ordering runs through the shop's Square site or by phone, and delivery can be arranged, which keeps the whole thing doable without a trip across town. It is also one of the Upstate's Black-owned bakeries. Across a run of five-star reviews, the same notes keep surfacing: Rhonda listens closely, stays in touch through the whole build, takes last-minute asks in stride, and hands back something that matches the picture the customer had in their head. The part people mention being surprised by is that it tastes as good as it looks. The design that fits your occasion is really the one that doesn't exist yet, and inventing it is the conversation the name promises.