{"id":121,"date":"2008-06-30T16:19:08","date_gmt":"2008-06-30T21:19:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=121"},"modified":"2011-03-02T23:40:07","modified_gmt":"2011-03-03T04:40:07","slug":"platos-grecian-cafe-dutch-square-boulevard-1990s","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=121","title":{"rendered":"Plato's Grecian Cafe, 810 Dutch Square Boulevard: 1990s"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/platos.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/platos_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/platos02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/06\/platos02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Plato's Grecian Cafe<\/i> 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 <i>clicked<\/i> 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 <i>Best Pizza in Columbia<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 2 March 2011<\/b>:  Add full street address and ad from the Feb 1990 Bellsouth Yellow Pages<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[45,210,22,502,93,5,3],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-broad-river-road","tag-bush-river-road","tag-dutch-square","tag-dutch-square-boulevard","tag-greek","tag-historic","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","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=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}