{"id":15661,"date":"2019-04-24T20:32:44","date_gmt":"2019-04-25T00:32:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15661"},"modified":"2023-01-17T22:03:01","modified_gmt":"2023-01-18T03:03:01","slug":"smashburger-5449-sunset-boulevard-march-2019","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15661","title":{"rendered":"Smashburger, 5449 Sunset Boulevard: March 2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/16\/05\/p1320186.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/16\/05\/p1320186_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1320186_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1320186_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580227.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580227_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580227_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580227_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580217.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580217_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580217_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580217_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580218.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580218_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580218_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580218_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580219.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580219_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580219_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580219_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580220.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580220_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580220_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580220_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580221.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580221_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580221_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580221_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580222.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580222_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580222_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580222_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580223.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580223_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580223_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580223_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580224.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580224_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580224_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580224_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580225.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580225_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580225_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580225_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580226.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580226_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580226_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580226_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580228.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/19\/04\/p1580228_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1580228_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1580228_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like <i>Smashburger<\/i> burgers, and their choice of buns (espically the chipolte one), but the fries are so bad that it's not really a competitor to <i>Five Guys<\/i> in my mind.  Nonetheless, every few months I do eat at the Devine Street location.<\/p>\n<p>This particular location is in the new shopping center that was built after tearing down the old <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=4702\">Cherokee Trail Veterinary Hospital<\/a>.  I believe that <i>Smashburger<\/i> was the initial tenant in this suite, and the first tenant of the strip to exit.  (Even its <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=mattress-firm\">Mattress Firm<\/a> still survives).<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter ED)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 17 January 2023<\/b>: Update tags.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/5449+Sunset+Blvd,+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>I like Smashburger burgers, and their choice of buns (espically the chipolte one), but the fries are so bad that it's not really a competitor to Five Guys in my mind. Nonetheless, every few months I do eat at the Devine Street location. This particular location is in the new shopping center that was built [&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":[1965,152,389,3,3652,374,356],"class_list":["post-15661","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-5449-sunset-boulevard","tag-hamburgers","tag-lexington","tag-restaurants","tag-smashburger","tag-sunset-boulevard","tag-us-378"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15661","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=15661"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15661\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15661"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15661"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15661"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}