{"id":12518,"date":"2017-02-18T23:56:35","date_gmt":"2017-02-19T04:56:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12518"},"modified":"2017-02-18T23:56:35","modified_gmt":"2017-02-19T04:56:35","slug":"carrabbas-italian-grill-200-graces-way-16-february-2017","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=12518","title":{"rendered":"Carrabba's Italian Grill, 200 Graces Way: 16 February 2017"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400172.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400172_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400172_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400172_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400173.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400173_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400173_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400173_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400174.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400174_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400174_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400174_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400175.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400175_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400175_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400175_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400177.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400177_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400177_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400177_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400178.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400178_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400178_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400178_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400179.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400179_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400179_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400179_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400180.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400180_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400180_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400180_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400181.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400181_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400181_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400181_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400182.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/02\/p1400182_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1400182_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1400182_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, I have to say I am not too surprised about this.  I ate at this <i>Carabba's<\/i> with some regularity, and twice in recent months I arrived well before the posted closing time to find the place with the doors locked.  During one period, they even changed the Friday\/Saturday closing hours back from 11:00 to 10:00 or maybe 10:30, I forget, but the point is that changing the hours either officialy or by fiat is <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?page_id=106\">Sign #1<\/a>.  The last few times I was there, they had started an annoying laser light show in the parking lot as if to say <i>We are still here, and we are fun!<\/i><\/p>\n<p>I can't put it on this store, but the chain as a whole has done some things I don't like in recent years, such as doing away with the olive oil bottles at the tables, and eliminating my favorite goto dish, the <i>Tagliarini Picchi Pacchiu<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>Still, I liked it well enough that it continued to be on my list.  I agree with commenter Sidney about <i>Location, Location, Location!<\/i>.  The last time I ate here (probably only about a week ago) I had actually been heading for the <i>Olive Garden<\/i> around the corner fronting Two Notch, but it was too packed to deal with, so I drove around and found that.. not to be the case here.<\/p>\n<p>If anyone is curious about the <i>Pizza Buffet<\/i> called out on the big sign, that has nothing to do with <i>Carrabba's<\/i>, but was for <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1685\">this operation<\/a>.  In fact, I think that sign is mostly for a Graces Way development that never developed.  The places that *<i>are<\/i>* down there don't bother to list on the sign.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Steve)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, I have to say I am not too surprised about this. I ate at this Carabba's with some regularity, and twice in recent months I arrived well before the posted closing time to find the place with the doors locked. During one period, they even changed the Friday\/Saturday closing hours back from 11:00 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":[2177,1508,101,3,349],"class_list":["post-12518","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-200-graces-way","tag-graces-way","tag-italian","tag-restaurants","tag-sparkleberry-lane"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518","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=12518"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12518\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12518"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12518"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12518"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}