{"id":1685,"date":"2010-03-23T00:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-23T05:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1685"},"modified":"2010-03-30T01:05:36","modified_gmt":"2010-03-30T06:05:36","slug":"pappas-pizza-to-go-290-graces-way-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1685","title":{"rendered":"Pappa's Pizza To Go, 290 Graces Way: 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was having lunch at Carrabba's<\/i> on Sparkleberry last Sunday, and as I was leaving, noticed an almost empty signboard for the surrounding retail area. One item on the almost vacant space was Pizza Buffet<\/i>, which struck me as a bit curious since it was so generic.<\/p>\n

As it turns out, there is a road behind Sparkleberry Square (parallel to Two Notch) that I had never noticed before called Graces Way<\/i>. There seems to be very little on it, but that's where Pappa's Pizza To Go<\/i> was. I had never heard of it, but googling around finds enough other hits that I conclude it is a chain.<\/p>\n

I don't generally do pizza buffets anymore since I want my pizza how I like it without having to wait for something that's even partially how I like it, so I have no idea how the pizza was there, but it seems to me they could hardly have chosen a worse location. There is no visibility from Two Notch or Sparkleberry, and the Sparkleberry signage is so small and generic as to be almost useless. Further, while the hope may have been that Graces Way would become a fairly busy road, there is almost nothing on it, and while I was driving down it, and parked taking these pictures, no other cars went by. Granted it was a Sunday, but Carrabba's<\/i> was doing a very good business.<\/p>\n

It appears they are doing interior work so perhaps something else will go in there though the location still seems chancy.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 29 March 2010<\/b>: Added picture of the Sparkleberry sign.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was having lunch at Carrabba's on Sparkleberry last Sunday, and as I was leaving, noticed an almost empty signboard for the surrounding retail area. One item on the almost vacant space was Pizza Buffet, which struck me as a bit curious since it was so generic. As it turns out, there is a road […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[27,3,75,54],"class_list":["post-1685","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-pizza","tag-restaurants","tag-sparkleberry-square","tag-two-notch-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685","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=1685"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1685\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1685"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1685"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1685"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}