Columbia Closings   What's not in Columbia anymore

This Kitty's Corner storefront was the second local location for Sully's Steamers, which was under the same ownership as the Devine location and converted to a Stacked at the same time.

As a Columbia guy, I was not really aware that Lexington's Old Cherokee Road went back this far -- I had always thought of it as a short strip between North Lake and Sunset, but it goes on the other way, takes an odd turn and continues through a number of different types of areas, from school to medical to residential to retail. Jessamine Quilt Shop was a bit of the last two, being a retail business in an old (well, not that old) house.

Looking at their archived pages, I can say that they sold Pfaff sewing machines as well as other quilting supplies, and on 14 June 2025, their goodbye message said:

Closing Our Doors

"Established in November, 2018, our purpose is to encourage, equip, and inspire fiber artists who are beginners or experienced hands."

Those words once greeted visitors to our website and for the past 6 and a half years we have had the joy and privilege of watching and helping thousands of makers create and express themselves in our shop and online through our Facebook and Instagram pages.

It is with a saddened but hopeful heart that we must announce the closing of our store and our website as of today. We have enjoyed laughing and learning and teaching and making with each and every one our the visitors - no, friends - to our shop. Friends that we will miss immensely. We are sad that we must go but hopeful in that we hope you will still continue to create wonderful stories and memories at each and every opportunity!

One of those opportunities will be a new fabric shop opening soon:

Feed Dog Fabrics

Watch your favorite search engine for more news later this summer!

Take care of yourselves and, as always:

Keep Stitching!!

Jann and the Makers @ Jessamine Quilt Shop

(Hat tip to commenter Brian)

Friends House (no apostrophe apparently) was the follow-on in this Publix plaza suite to Chen's.

Commenter James R notes that the rent on this place went up and the owners opted not to renew. Currently the storefront is empty.

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As reported by The State, the Clutch Coffee chain has been bought out by Dutch Bros coffee (which is apparently quite large, though I had never heard of them), and the local Clutch outlets will be closed to remodel & retool before coming back as Dutch Bros locations.

This one, in Lexington is by the former Sonic location, which itself is apparently retooling to become an ice-cream shop.

(Hat tip to commenter James R)

Clean Eatz is more than a restaurant that offers healthy food. We are heart-driven to change livez through clean, balanced food, thought-provoking education.

That certainly sounds ambitious, even if I'm not quite sure what it means, but this location of the chain, next to the former Brueggers, has now closed.

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Cafe Strudel opened in this Lexington restaurant space in May of 2018, replacing (after a hiatus) Kovachi's.

The Cafe Strudel brand, which included this store and the original State Street location in West Columbia, was recently purchased from its founders by the Foundry Hospitality Group which will be retaining the original flagship and bringing a yet to be specified new concept to this spot.

Considering the the original location has been up since 1997, you might think I could have managed to stop by sometime in the last nigh unto 30 years, but in the event not yet.

You can read about the closing on ColaDaily or in The State.

(Hat tip to commenter James R)

I don't know much about Clean Juice. Judging from the Google reviews, it seems like they did smoothies & avocado toast, but I see the one on Forest Drive also has sandwiches and acai bowls. They were located just a few doors down from Wayback Burgers.

The closing note is a bit confusing, opening with We have sold!, but apparently that does not mean they have sold the operation as an ongoing concern.

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This place is now called Veneziano's. Looking at the Google reviews, it's hard to say exactly when this happened, but apparently the ownership changed about a year ago, and the name probably changed around October of 2024. I had eaten several times at Papa Gio's, and it was not my favorite place. I found that consistently the garlic knots had very little or no garlic on them, and since they did not have 10 inch pizza, I would order a calzone, which would generally have cold ricotta in the filling.

I decided to try Veneziano's, and found the interior much the same with the exception of some tables being removed in the area directly behind the hostess stand. Service was good and friendly, but I still found that the garlic knots had no garlic, and the calzone was filled with chilled ricotta...

Discount Beer & Tobacco in the Luce strip mall on US-1 in Lexington is moving 1o 1600 West Main Street. This is several blocks East of the current location, and looks like it would be replacing perhaps Boost Mobile or Eagle Express at the corner of West Main (US-1) and Westside Drive.

I thought every now and then that I might stop in here, but I was never in the area at the right time, or at least when I hadn't already decided where to go.

The business has been up for sale for a while, and apparently they have not found a buyer, shutting down about 13 August, judging by comments on their Facebook and this State story.

(Hat tip to commenter JamesR)