{"id":11511,"date":"2016-06-08T00:54:03","date_gmt":"2016-06-08T04:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=11511"},"modified":"2016-07-11T00:54:47","modified_gmt":"2016-07-11T04:54:47","slug":"stephanos-420-columbia-avenue-mid-may-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=11511","title":{"rendered":"Stephano's, 420 Columbia Avenue: Mid May 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/q1320167.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/q1320167_tn.jpg\" title=\"q1320167_tn.jpg\" alt=\"q1320167_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/q1320180.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/q1320180_tn.jpg\" title=\"q1320180_tn.jpg\" alt=\"q1320180_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320171.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320171_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1320171_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1320171_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320172.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320172_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1320172_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1320172_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320173.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320173_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1320173_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1320173_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320174.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320174_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1320174_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1320174_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320175.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320175_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1320175_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1320175_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320176.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320176_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1320176_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1320176_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320177.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320177_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1320177_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1320177_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320178.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320178_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1320178_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1320178_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320183.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/06\/p1320183_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1320183_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1320183_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/business\/article78766742.html\">The State<\/a> has the story of this Lexington closing for <i>Stephano's<\/i>.  The long and short of it is the owners are retiring, and the building will re-open as <i>The Root Cellar<\/i>, \"featur[ing] locally grown meats and produce\".<\/p>\n<p>It's still hard for me to believe that a restaurant opened in 1977 has been around almost 40 years -- 1977 seems like just yesterday.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 9 June 2016<\/b> -- Here is <a href=\"http:\/\/www.free-times.com\/blogs\/lexingtons-stephanos-becoming-farm-to-table-eatery052616\">The Free Times on 'The Root Cellar'<\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 11 July 2016<\/b> -- <i>The Root Cellar<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/07\/p1330699.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/07\/p1330699_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1330699_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1330699_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/07\/p1330700.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/07\/p1330700_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1330700_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1330700_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The State has the story of this Lexington closing for Stephano's. The long and short of it is the owners are retiring, and the building will re-open as The Root Cellar, \"featur[ing] locally grown meats and produce\". It's still hard for me to believe that a restaurant opened in 1977 has been around almost 40 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1974,798,101,389,3],"class_list":["post-11511","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-420-columbia-avenue","tag-columbia-avenue","tag-italian","tag-lexington","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=11511"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11511\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=11511"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=11511"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=11511"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}