{"id":12376,"date":"2017-01-20T00:24:35","date_gmt":"2017-01-20T05:24:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12376"},"modified":"2020-03-12T00:02:56","modified_gmt":"2020-03-12T04:02:56","slug":"mr-ds-steaks-and-seafood-938-north-lake-drive-mid-january-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12376","title":{"rendered":"Mr. D's Steaks and Seafood, 938 North Lake Drive: Mid January 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/08\/p1340715.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/08\/p1340715_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1340715_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1340715_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/08\/p1340716.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/08\/p1340716_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1340716_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1340716_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390402.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390402_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1390402_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1390402_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390403.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390403_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1390403_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1390403_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390404.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390404_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1390404_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1390404_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390405.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390405_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1390405_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1390405_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390406.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390406_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1390406_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1390406_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390407.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390407_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1390407_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1390407_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390408.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/01\/p1390408_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1390408_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1390408_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Mr. D's<\/i> was the followup operation in this location to <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=10678\">Gilligan's<\/a> and as of Mid August 2016 was <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/business\/biz-columns-blogs\/shop-around\/article93902162.html\">bought by Steve MacDougall, the mayor of Lexington who had already been general manager<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/MrDssteaksandseafood\/?_fb_noscript=1\">Facebook page<\/a> indicates that it was in operation as late as 17 December 2016, but commenter Brian noticed it closed on 16 January 2016.  As you can see, a note on the front door indicates that they planned to re-open on 1 February 2017, but the real-estate sign outside suggests that plan has been overtaken by events.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Brian)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 11 May 2019<\/b> -- Something is going on here, but there is no sign that says exactly what:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580826.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580826_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580826_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580826_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580827.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/05\/p1580827_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580827_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580827_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 12 March 2020<\/b> -- Now <i>Singh Leite Pediatric Dentistry<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620317.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620317_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620317_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620317_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620312.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620312_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620312_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620312_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620313.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620313_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620313_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620313_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620314.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620314_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620314_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620314_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620316.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620316_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620316_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620316_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/983+N+Lake+Dr,+Lexington,+SC+29072\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Mr. D's was the followup operation in this location to Gilligan's and as of Mid August 2016 was bought by Steve MacDougall, the mayor of Lexington who had already been general manager. The restaurant's Facebook page indicates that it was in operation as late as 17 December 2016, but commenter Brian noticed it closed on [&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":[1756,389,792,3,94,86],"class_list":["post-12376","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-938-north-lake-drive","tag-lexington","tag-north-lake-drive","tag-restaurants","tag-seafood","tag-steak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376","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=12376"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12376\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12376"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12376"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12376"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}