{"id":12312,"date":"2016-12-23T02:25:06","date_gmt":"2016-12-23T07:25:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12312"},"modified":"2016-12-23T02:25:06","modified_gmt":"2016-12-23T07:25:06","slug":"don-pablos-mexican-kitchen-8717-international-drive-orlando-october-2016","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12312","title":{"rendered":"Don Pablo's Mexican Kitchen, 8717 International Drive (Orlando): October 2016"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/12\/p1380075.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/12\/p1380075_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1380075_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1380075_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, <i>Don Pablo's<\/i> continues to dwindle away to nothing.  As I <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=57\">wrote here<\/a>, I used to like to go to the Columbia Mall location.  Then when that closed, I was working in Augusta and used to like to go to that location.  Then that closed, and I would hit the Charleston location from time to time, then that closed and I would stop by the Charlotte location once or twice a year, then that closed, and I would try to go to the Arlington location when I was in DC on business (hard if I had no car..), then that job evaporated and I would stop by the Atlanta location once a year or so, then that closed and I would hit the Greenville location when I had a leisurely weekend, then that closed, but I figured I could still hit the Orlando location on one of my periodic runs through Florida..<\/p>\n<p>Well, no more.  Orlando closed in October after the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.wsj.com\/articles\/owner-of-don-pablos-restaurants-files-for-bankruptcy-1475587437\">chain filed for Chapter 11 on 4 October 2016<\/a>, as I found well after the fact.<\/p>\n<p>It wasn't a total loss, driving down International, I had seen another Mexican place, <i>Chuy's<\/i>, so I backed up to there and had an excellent chile relleno, probably the best one I've had since I was in San Antonio.<\/p>\n<p>Oh, and I don't think I know of a good way to be fired<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/12\/p1380076.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/12\/p1380076_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1380076_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1380076_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>but this *definitely* is not it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, Don Pablo's continues to dwindle away to nothing. As I wrote here, I used to like to go to the Columbia Mall location. Then when that closed, I was working in Augusta and used to like to go to that location. Then that closed, and I would hit the Charleston location from time to [&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":[2140,524,2139,83,990,16,3],"class_list":["post-12312","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-8717-international-drive","tag-florida","tag-international-drive","tag-mexican","tag-orlando","tag-out-of-area","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312","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=12312"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12312\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12312"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12312"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12312"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}