{"id":13014,"date":"2017-06-28T00:25:17","date_gmt":"2017-06-28T04:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=13014"},"modified":"2025-06-17T22:05:30","modified_gmt":"2025-06-18T02:05:30","slug":"lizards-thicket-818-elmwood-avenue-5-june-2017-temporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=13014","title":{"rendered":"Lizard's Thicket, 818 Elmwood Avenue: 5 June 2017 (open again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420768.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420768_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420768_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420768_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Wow, there's \"remodeling\", and there's \"tear out everything down to the bare walls, and some of those too\".  This is the latter.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>State<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/business\/biz-columns-blogs\/shop-around\/article154381569.html\">says<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>\nOnce renovations are complete [in fall 2017], the location will include increased parking, new exterior siding, state-of-the-art kitchen equipment and a remodeled dining room with new booths, Wi-Fi access and USB chargers.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Somehow <i>Lizard's Thicket<\/i> has never seemed like a USB charger kind of place to me..<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420769.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420769_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420769_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420769_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420771.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420771_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420771_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420771_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420772.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420772_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420772_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420772_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420774.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420774_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420774_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420774_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420776.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420776_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420776_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420776_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420777.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420777_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420777_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420777_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420778.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420778_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420778_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420778_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420779.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420779_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420779_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420779_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420780.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420780_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420780_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420780_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420781.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420781_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420781_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420781_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420782.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420782_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420782_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420782_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420783.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420783_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420783_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420783_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420784.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420784_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420784_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420784_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420787.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420787_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420787_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420787_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420790.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420790_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420790_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420790_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420791.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420791_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420791_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420791_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420793.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420793_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420793_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420793_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420795.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420795_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420795_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420795_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420796.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420796_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420796_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420796_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420797.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420797_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420797_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420797_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420798.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/17\/06\/p1420798_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1420798_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1420798_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter James R)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 7 February 2018<\/b> -- as mentioned in the comments, this location is now open again:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/02\/p1490097.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/02\/p1490097_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1490097_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1490097_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/18\/02\/p1490098.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/18\/02\/p1490098_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1490098_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1490098_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 17 June 2025<\/b>: Update tags, add map icon.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/818+Elmwood+Ave,+Columbia,+SC+29201\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Wow, there's \"remodeling\", and there's \"tear out everything down to the bare walls, and some of those too\". This is the latter. The State says: Once renovations are complete [in fall 2017], the location will include increased parking, new exterior siding, state-of-the-art kitchen equipment and a remodeled dining room with new booths, Wi-Fi access and [&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":[2280,479,1976,485,2592,3],"class_list":["post-13014","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-818-elmwood-avenue","tag-elmwood-avenue","tag-home-cooking","tag-lincoln-street","tag-lizards-thicket","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014","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=13014"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13014\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13014"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13014"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13014"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}