Archive for October, 2013
Catch 22, 1085-D Lake Murray Boulevard: September 2013 12 comments
Here's another of the many restaurants I was completely unaware of. This Irmo spot offered more than the seafood the name would have you expect. Of course, some other reviews make it sound as though the literary meaning of the name may have been appropos from time to time as well.
The space is now open again as Bistro On The Boulevard.
(Hat tip to commenter Becky)
Mucho Margaritas / San Jose Mexican Restaurant, 819 Harden Street: Early October 2013 13 comments
To the best of my recollection, I've never eaten at any establishment in this Five Points storefront, to include San Jose, though I have certainly eaten at other local San Jose locations, and found them to be perfectly OK.
Commenter MB noted the closing, and pointed out that until fairly recently it was Mucho Margaritas, something I must have driven by many times without it registering at all. Already today the sign was down and folks were carting off the fixtures. With the recent closure of Dreams Of Bombay, there are now two adjacent restaurant vacancies in this building. (I don't know what, if anything, is in the upper storey).
(Hat tip to commenter MB)
UPDATE 1 July 2014 -- This will next be the bacon themed restaurant Sizzle. Mmm, Bacon!:
UPDATE 25 January 2023: Add tags and map icon.
Sammi's Deli, 7210 Broad River Road: September 2013 19 comments
This Sammi's location was way out on Broad River Road, just across Lykes Lane from the Publix plaza. I took these pictures when I originally thought it was closed, back in June of 2012.
As it turned out, they weren't closed, but just having some work done. They opened again and carried on (with an 'A') until last month.
Now it's Touchdown's Wings & Things.
And So It Begins.. 35 comments
Still In Style, 7971 North Woodrow Street Suites 2 & 3: 2000s 1 comment
Here's a two suite consignment shop in the little Irmo strip that has figured so often here over the past week or so. One more, and I think we're done..
UPDATE 6 October 2021: Adding "North" to "Woodrow Street" in the title & tags. Adding map icon.
Grace K. Salon Etc., 10005 Broad River Road: 2000s 2 comments
Here's a former beauty salon in an old ranch-style on Broad River Road in Irmo. The new, unused, phonebooks on the porch are closing signs I've seen time and again, though probably in the next few years that will stop.
Biscuit House, 9001 Garners Ferry Road: September 2013 23 comments
When the original Biscuit House on Bluff road closed, there was an announcement that someone had bought the brand rights so as to open new Biscuit House locations inside convenience stores, much as Subway and Blimpie do. I believe that this one, in a Corner Pantry at the corner of Garners Ferry Road and Lower Richland Boulevard was the first such, and it opened sometime after March 2012. Somewhere, I have a picture of this location in operation, but can't put my hands on it right now. At any rate, as far as I know, this just leaves one other, in Irmo, from this initial roll-out.
(Hat tip to commenter Midnight Rambler)
UPDDATE 8 October 2013: As promised, I have found and added the pix of the place in operation.
Fire, Front Street Georgetown: 25 September 2013 2 comments
This is about the only good news to come out of Georgetown in the last few days.
I have been in a number of these businesses, and they are right in the heart of the downtown boardwalk.
The State has the initial story and several followups, including the Governor's visit.