{"id":16773,"date":"2020-02-07T00:00:04","date_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:00:04","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16773"},"modified":"2020-02-07T00:00:04","modified_gmt":"2020-02-07T05:00:04","slug":"saffron-1607-fairlane-drive-early-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16773","title":{"rendered":"Saffron, 1607 Fairlane Drive: Early 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620077.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620077_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620077_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620077_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620078.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620078_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620078_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620078_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620079.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620079_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620079_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620079_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620081.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620081_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620081_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620081_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620082.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620082_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620082_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620082_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I never ate at <i>Saffron<\/i>, but their mix of cuisines (Indian, Chinese & Mexican) intrigued me.  I figure there was a family story in there somewhere.  <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/saffron-west-columbia-2?hrid=1Lipf6DGzkN0Rj3iFQyAAw&osq=saffron\">Yelp reviews<\/a> indicate that the place changed hands last year, and you can see on the marquee sign, that the <i>Mexican<\/i> aspect has been elided.<\/p>\n<p>Now the place has closed, and the follow-on will be a (fully) Mexican restaurant: <i>La Cienega<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1607+Fairlane+Dr,+West+Columbia,+SC+29169\/\" 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 never ate at Saffron, but their mix of cuisines (Indian, Chinese &#038; Mexican) intrigued me. I figure there was a family story in there somewhere. Yelp reviews indicate that the place changed hands last year, and you can see on the marquee sign, that the Mexican aspect has been elided. Now the place has [&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":[1884,47,1883,46,83,3,374,57],"class_list":["post-16773","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-1607-fairlane-drive","tag-chinese","tag-fairlane-drive","tag-indian","tag-mexican","tag-restaurants","tag-sunset-boulevard","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773","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=16773"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16773\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16773"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16773"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16773"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}