Archive for the ‘fish’ tag
Fresh Poke, 252 Harbison Boulevard: 25 November 2023 no comments
This Harbison Court storefront has been a number of things over the years. Most recently previous to Fresh Poke, I believe it was Yoghut.
Judging from their Facebook, this location packed it in around last Thanksgiving, though there are other locations int the Midlands. I don't believe she's tried the poke, but my niece likes the bubble-tea at the Forest Acres location.
(Hat tip to commenter Gypsie)
UPDATE 21 May 2024: The State says this is to become the second Midlands location for Handel's ice cream.
St. Andrews Seafood Market, 4470 Saint Andrews Road: Early 2023 (For Sale) no comments
Longtime Seven Oaks stalwart, St Andrews Seafood Market is currently closed. Unfortunately the owner has been having some health issues, but, judging by the posted signs, is thankfully doing better now. Nonetheless, she is taking the opportunity to retire, and the business is up for sale.
So, if you're feeling pescatory, you might want to reel in this catch.
(Hat tip to commenter Gypsie)
Mista Brown's Seafood & Etc, 5001 Monticello Road: 2011 3 comments
I have a picture of this place with the signage still up.. somewhere. At any rate, this Monticello Road fried fish takeout is no more, listing in the Feb 2011 phonebook, but not the Feb 2012 one. I'm not a big seafood fan, but the place had its devotees.
The building was obviously some other type of fast food joint originally, but I can't quite place it.
UPDATE 12 September 2017 -- OK, I found the pictures I took on 4 November 2011. I probably didn't post them back then because it was such a gray day and they turned out so blah, but a sunny day won't bring the signage back:
Fish & More Seafood Market, 2500 Forest Drive: August 2015 1 comment
Fish & More opened in the old Blue Ocean Seafood Market location sometime in mid 2014. I thought I had some pictures of it in full operation, but so far have only found the "coming soon" pictures at the Blue Ocean closing.
At any rate, I noticed as I was driving down Forest Drive last weekend that the place is now Forest Island Bar & Grill.
Fins Aquatic Livestock and Supplies, 7971 North Woodrow Street Suite 4: 2000s 2 comments
Nothing fishy here... anymore.
UPDATE 6 October 2021: Adding "North" to "Woodrow Street" in the tital and tags. Adding map icon.
Chappy's Authentic English Fish & Chips, 2911 Two Notch Road / 1306 Charleston Highway / 1936 Broad River Road / 7007 Parklane Road: 1990s 62 comments
1306 Charleston Highway:
7007 Parklane Road:
Chappy's Fish & Chips was a constant media presence on the radio (and in The State as in the coupon from 10 November 1987 above), though I think the most common image I had of the whole "fish & chips" concept came from that English N'er-do-well Andy Capp.
The 2911 Two Notch location referred to in this ad is now the McDonald's at the intersection of Beltline and Two Notch, though I believe the original Chappy's building was demolished. I never ate at Chappy's because I don't like fish (or the smell of fish), and have never been to England, so I can comment neither on how good nor on how authentic the fish and chips were.
Though it's not mentioned in this ad, Chappy's was connected with a very similar (identical except for the name perhaps?) operation called Cedric's. At this remove, it seems like an odd strategy to dilute your concept into two brands, especially since as far as I can recall, the restaurants were a purely Columbia phenomenon. The Chappy's radio commercials used to end with an exhortation to Be sure and visit my friend Cedric too!. I think the stores had at least one English "double decker" bus that they used for promotions. Wonder what happened to that?
At any rate, I'm pretty sure the stores didn't make it through the 90s. I don't think "fish & chips" was ever going to be "big" (though the coupon suggests they were moving in a more Southern direction as well -- "hushpuppies"), perhaps it wasn't big enough to support that many stores, perhaps the owners wanted to retire -- whatever the reason I don't think you can get fish & chips at all in Columbia now. And "Andy Capp" has long since left The State as well.
UPDATE 18 November 2009: Added pix of the Charleston Highway location, made minor edits to the text and added the Charleston Highway and Broad River locations to the post title.
UPDATE 27 May 2010: Added newspaper ad from The State 19 Feb 1979
UPDATE 27 June 2010: Added pictures of the Parklane location.
UPDATE 18 August 2017 -- The Charleston Highway location is now a Cricket phone store:
