Plato's Grecian Cafe, 810 Dutch Square Boulevard: 1990s 10 comments
Plato's Grecian Cafe was tucked into a strip mall across the street from Dutch Square; today it's a Personnel company. I went there several times over the years, but it never really clicked for me. I always thought of it mainly as a pizza place, and though the pizza was fine, it was not in the running for Best Pizza in Columbia.
The last time I was there, they had some sort of live music. I can't recall if it were a pop band or some kind of Greek folk thing, but anyway that seemed to be where their focus was that night, and I found the table service really suffered for it. Since my inclination to stop was never strong, I never got around to going back after that, and didn't notice for a while that the place was gone.
UPDATE 2 March 2011: Add full street address and ad from the Feb 1990 Bellsouth Yellow Pages
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gary
2 Jul 08 at 6:40 am
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Well, my fault for going on the weekend then. I like live music, but not with my meal.
ted
2 Jul 08 at 12:13 pm
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They closed sometime in 2002 or 2003. I had a two-day temp job in that building in January '02, and the boss bought my lunch there the first day. I picked up take-out a few times after that but can't remember exactly when they closed.
sandy
31 Dec 08 at 12:39 am
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I used to get one Gyro and one Souvlaki sandwich delivered from there to the Park Apartments off Broad River Road. I had to order 2 of these massive (1980s definition of that word) just to get it over the $10 delivery limit.
JC
23 May 09 at 12:30 am
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massive "pita-bread sandwiches", that is.
JC
23 May 09 at 12:31 am
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I also remember the Cokesbury book store being in this mall, and it was a secular bookstore then. When they moved out to Broad River Road, as I recall, they converted to a religious bookstore.
59 Ford Wheelman
15 Oct 09 at 7:11 pm
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They had a GREAT hamburger! Many years ago, I worked off of Stoneridge, and Plato's was a regular lunch spot for us.
MPB
16 Dec 09 at 4:44 pm
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They had the BEST fried mushrooms! They were fresh, not frozen, coated in crispy cornmeal batter and served with tzsiki sauce, so good....
Ali
4 Jan 10 at 3:31 pm
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I use to work in the building and would go Plato's at least twice a week. I even dated a girl that worked part time and went to USC. One of the son's of the owner use to run it...very cool guy!
Keith
4 Mar 13 at 5:28 pm
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Wasn't Platos the primary host of the big annual Columbia Greek Festival?
JBL
4 Mar 13 at 10:09 pm
They had live music every weekend. My neighbor at the time was in a band and they played at Platos about once a week.