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Tucked inside the Grand Bohemian Lodge at the edge of Falls Park, Spirit & Bower is the kind of perch most of us around Greenville save for when we want to slow a night down. The room opens onto a stone bar and a verandah that looks straight out over the Reedy River and Liberty Bridge, so the setting does half the work before a drink ever lands. The heart of it is bourbon, a list that runs deep into rare and hard-to-find bottles, backed by seasonally shifting cocktails and a short, Southern-leaning menu of small plates built for sharing. Regulars reach for the Old Fashioned, and the Whiskey Business puts a house spin on that classic. The plates change with the calendar rather than staying fixed, running from smoky trout dip to Virginia ham and spicy pork sausage. The weekday Bower Hour, 4:30 to 6:30, is the easy way in for shareable bites and a drink before the evening fills out. What visitors tend to mention first is almost never the pour or the plate. It's the setting: the fireside room when it turns cool, the terrace at golden hour, the sound of the falls running under the conversation. Which seat becomes your seat, and whether you turn out to be a bourbon-at-dusk or a nightcap-by-the-fire kind of regular, is the part you sort out a visit at a time.