Empire Pizza & Bar

Horrible attitude of Waitress/​Bartender today. Attitude right off the bat ordering drinks. She wanted us to have adult drinks expecting bigger tips I could tell. I asked what soft drinks. She sighed … Pepsi products and blinked. I don’t work for Pepsi so I haven’t a clue.
Eventually she rattled them off. Ordered and when she returned and threw straws on the table … I knew. We are out!!‘
Left and didn’t look back.
All the reviews said hit or miss on service. It’s mostly miss. You’ve been warned.
(And PS… Less is more when it comes to make up.)

The best barbecue cheeseburger I have ever had and I’ve had many over the years. I get this for takeout often. My wife gets calzones, small pizzas etc and loves them too. Great food. Service is good as well. Patty melt was great too.

Service can be spotty at times, but the wings and the calzone are the best ones around. No argument. Highly recommend it!

Good food and service. Waitress we have had past two times we have been was exceptional.

Service was a little slow but good once our waitress arrived. Food was good and fresh and jukebox play was amazing!
KISS records on the wall!

Love the pizza! Live music nights are great! Central location in Fort Mill with a nice local gathering. Also a good spot to watch a game with a few friends.

This is a wonderful local restaurant and bar. The food, beer and service are very good at reasonable prices. There is a really good energy to the place which provides a pleasant atmosphere for singles and families. This is the sort of restaurant and bar where the staff gets to know you. Thus, you will see several regulars having fun visiting with each other and the staff. Plus, a lot of folks love watching sporting events on the TVs.
It is often crowded on Thursday through Saturday nights. Early Sunday evening is also busy. In addition, the restaurant does a huge takeout business. So depending on the day and time, you should be prepared for a usually short wait to get a table.
I hope you will enjoy Empire as much as I do.

This is the second time I have had lunch at Empire in Fort Mill. The first time was wonderful–
both the service and the pizza.
Unfortunately, NOT today. My salad was served and I had to wait for silver ware for 10 minutes. And that’s after I had to ask for it. When I ordered my drink I specifically asked for no ice. It was served with ice. I let my server know and got no polite apologies from her.
The pizza was COLD and so was my server.
Since I was on my lunch break and running out of time I had to eat it cold. Now dealing with indigestion.
Won’t be back for a while.

The Caesar salad and lobster ravioli is to die for! We will definitely be back! My husband had the chicken parm sub, kids had pizza and pasta. We loved everything! We are new to the area and loved this restaurant!

My husband and I had never been before but had heard good things about Empire. We decided to go last night with our 3 year old. It was after 7:00pm so I wasn’t sure about taking him but we thought we’d try it and if it wasn’t kid friendly we would try somewhere else. There were several kids there and the place was pretty packed!
We LOVED everything we ordered — lasagna and 5 Boroughs pizza. We also ordered cheesy garlic bread for our son and it was delicious! The staff was very friendly and service was quick!
We would definitely recommend it! :D

I and sick and I cant drive right now bc of the drugs the doctor gave me and I live alone. I wanted to order delivery and the lady was nice-​ish on the phone but was kinda snobby as well. anyway I gave them my address waited for about 3 minutes for them to even let me know if they can deliver or not and they said I was almost 6 miles away and they only deliver 5 miles away. well I was pissed and still hungry so hung up and checked how far away I really was…5.3 miles away… really… that .3 is probably the road I live on and the is no stop signs or traffic…

First time here. Lots of food, Pizza is very good. I am sure We will be back and I’ll add more to the review.

BRING BACK THE PEPPERONI ROLLS!!! Post the same if you miss the pepperoni rolls
Best pizza in Fort Mill, SC. The garlic knots and wings are good too. They have delivery and great service with a full bar if you eat in.

I tried Empire for the first time on 4−17−15. I expected it to be a lot like Fuel Pizza… customers walking to a counter, ordering a slice of pre-​baked pizza, etc., but I was pleasantly surprised to find that it’s an actual, normal restaurant.
I ordered two slices of pizza and added two toppings, which ended up being about $ 3.33 a slice. Normally, I’d say that’s a lot, but the slices are so big that it makes up for it. One slice filled me up, and I usually have a voracious appetite. My boyfriend and I got garlic knots as an appetizer and, I must admit… I was a little disappointed. They reminded me of store-​bought, bagged rolls with a little garlic slapped on them. Not bad, but not impressive either. Both the pizza and garlic knots were incredibly greasy, so I blotted them with a paper towel. Taste was great, though, and whatever cheese they use on the pizza is fantastic.
Our server was ok, she did her job, but she wasn’t very enthusiastic or friendly. Who knows? Maybe it was a rough night.
Would I go back? Definitely. Is it awesome? No, but it tastes good and gets the job done.
EDIT: Went back last night (4−22−15) and ordered a side garden salad and a slice of pizza. The waitress got my salad dressing wrong, the salad was mostly big chunks of iceberg lettuce, and had hardly any toppings in it. My slice of pizza and my boyfriend’s slices were cold. Seriously… it was like it had been sitting out for awhile. Our waitress had no personality… Not sure we will be back again.

We frequent all three empires regularly and are usually pleased with the food and the service.
Today, however, I ordered a Caesar salad with shrimp and was served chicken instead. When I sent it back to be fixed they took the chicken off, put the shrimp on and returned the same salad to me… newly adorned with shrimp. This is unacceptable. With the prevalence of allergies in the world today, you cannot just take an item off of a salad and reserve the same salad. No, I am not allergic to chicken, however, I do not eat chicken because it makes me sick. This may be a fluke, but I feel that it probably is not. We will not be back.

Saturday afternoon– great service when the bar is staffed properly :) the Balsamic glazed pizza is THE BOMB!

The pizza was good, but the service was beyond slow! It took 5 minutes to be greeted, 10 minutes for our 2 soft drinks (1 was wrong) & 2 kids waters, another 7 minutes until she returned to take our order. We were celebrating a birthday and never been here before today… I thought the gift bag would’ve sparked a question.
After 22 minutes of sitting there and finally placing our order we of course had to wait about 20 minutes longer for the pizza to cook. It was hard entertaining a 3 year old boy and 1 year old baby girl for 45 minutes until the food arrived.
Very slow service and no connection with the guests.

Being new to the Fort Mill area and not wanting to cook during the weeks of moving into our new home we decided to eat out. We came across Empire Pizza near Baxter Village and very happy we did. The wait staff is wonderful and attentive, the décor and ambiance is very appropriate for a pizza spot. There is a bar on the other side of the partition and the noise doesn’t really carry over to the dining area.
But you want to know about the pizza, right? Well, it’s truly an experience. The sauce, crust and ingredients all come together to make a great pie. They’ve really put time into their recipe for the pies. The buffalo wings are great also. Empire also serves Gyros, Pitas and other pizzeria items, although I haven’t tried them, I’ve had some friends tell me they’re very good. We been going to Empire often over the last 5 months and we’ve only had one experience where the pizza wasn’t cooked all the way through, we didn’t mention anything to the staff because it wasn’t that bad.
Great location, great wait staff and great food! Stop by.

update:
I would go here for the ranch dressing alone

Solid pizza place — bar seating on one side and restaurant seating on the other. TVs all around the place show sports, news, and trivia. The fella and I visited early on a Sunday evening for dinner, and service was spot on. Unfortunately, they couldn’t show us a draft or bottle beer list, so we sorta had to wing our choice.
We started with the pepperoni rolls, which were better than I expected. Then we moved onto spliting a 10″ Maui pizza (which was 6 slices) with bacon, ham, and pineapple. Somehow the marinara sauce that came with the pepperoni rolls tasted a lot better to me than the sauce on the pizza, which sorted tasted like tomato sauce out of a can, but even just okay pizza is pretty good.