{"id":16687,"date":"2020-01-23T23:03:46","date_gmt":"2020-01-24T04:03:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16687"},"modified":"2021-06-22T22:59:18","modified_gmt":"2021-06-23T02:59:18","slug":"seafood-connection-1072-lake-murray-boulevard-early-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16687","title":{"rendered":"Seafood Connection, 1072 Lake Murray Boulevard: Early January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610831.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610831_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610831_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610831_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610832.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610832_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610832_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610832_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610833.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610833_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610833_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610833_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610834.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610834_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610834_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610834_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610835.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610835_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610835_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610835_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610836.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610836_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610836_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610836_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610837.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610837_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610837_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610837_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610838.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610838_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610838_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610838_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610839.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610839_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610839_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610839_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610840.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610840_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610840_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610840_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610841.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610841_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610841_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610841_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610842.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610842_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610842_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610842_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610843.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/01\/p1610843_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1610843_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1610843_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This attractive stone-accented building up the hill from Columbiana Drive on <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=lake-murray-boulevard\">Lake Murray Boulevard<\/a> has featured here several times.  First it was <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2695\">Atlanta Bread<\/a>, which closed in May 2008, and then re-opened around September 2011, finally closing again in May of 2014.  Next it was <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15006\">Urban Cookhouse<\/a>, which closed in October 2018.<\/p>\n<p><i>Seafood Connection<\/i>, which was a second location for a Charlotte restaurant, opened here in August 2019.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/living\/food-drink\/article234463537.html\">The State<\/a> had the story celebrating the \"Lowcountry boil\", and \"secret spice\".  They also had <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/living\/food-drink\/article239319913.html\">the story on the closing<\/a>, putting in in context with a number of seafood openings, but with no details on the reasons.<\/p>\n<p>I don't see any obvious reason why this spot is not a good one for a restaurant, but history seems to suggest it is not.  We'll see what goes in next.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Mr. Hat)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 22 June 2021<\/b> -- To become an <i>El Jimador<\/i> Mexican restaurant:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710144.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710144_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1710144_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1710144_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710145.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710145_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1710145_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1710145_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710146.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/21\/06\/p1710146_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1710146_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1710146_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1072+Lake+Murray+Blvd,+Irmo,+SC+29063\/\" 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>This attractive stone-accented building up the hill from Columbiana Drive on Lake Murray Boulevard has featured here several times. First it was Atlanta Bread, which closed in May 2008, and then re-opened around September 2011, finally closing again in May of 2014. Next it was Urban Cookhouse, which closed in October 2018. Seafood Connection, which [&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":[2224,198,334,3,94],"class_list":["post-16687","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1072-lake-murray-boulevard","tag-irmo","tag-lake-murray-boulevard","tag-restaurants","tag-seafood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687","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=16687"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16687\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16687"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16687"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16687"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}