Nico Abello’s Enlō Gives Greenville an Ambitious Tasting Menu

By Eric Barton
9:48 a.m. ET, June 18, 2026

AUTHOR BIO: Eric Barton is editor of The Adventurist and a freelance journalist who has reviewed restaurants for more than two decades. Email him here.

Before Enlō had a name, Nico Abello had already been testing the idea in Greenville one dinner at a time.

There was a 29-course dinner for 29 guests. There were chef-curated tasting menus and guest-chef collaborations. There were enough sold-out seats to suggest that Greenville diners were ready to follow Abello somewhere more permanent.

Enlō is that place. The 50-seat tasting-menu restaurant from Abello and Table 301 Hospitality is expected to open in summer 2026 above The Lazy Goat, overlooking the Reedy River in downtown Greenville. The idea is a chef-led, French-rooted tasting menu from someone who has already done this at a very high level.

Abello

Born outside Paris, Abello went off to culinary school at 15 and by 17 apprenticed at the two-star Michelin restaurant Les Trois Marches in Versailles. In New York, he opened L’Appart in 2016. He built the restaurant around the idea of a private dinner party; nine months later, it earned a Michelin star and held it for five more years. GQ once described his cooking there as rooted in tradition but unconventional in method, with Abello thinking about ingredients first and rarely relying on recipes.

In an interview with the Greenville Journal, Abello said he treated L’Appart like it was his own, even though he was an employee, adding: “I think I have some unfinished business with that.”

In Greenville, Abello joined Table 301 in 2022, which runs nine concepts in Greenville, including Soby's, CAMP, and The Jones Oyster Co. Abello began building a following through intimate dinners. The name Enlō arrived later, after months of teasing the project.

For Table 301, the restaurant is another step for a group that helped define downtown Greenville dining through Soby’s, The Lazy Goat, and a growing collection of restaurants. For Abello, Enlō looks more personal: a small restaurant, above the river, built around the kind of dinner that asks people to slow down and pay attention.