{"id":16878,"date":"2020-02-24T23:14:51","date_gmt":"2020-02-25T04:14:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16878"},"modified":"2020-02-24T23:14:51","modified_gmt":"2020-02-25T04:14:51","slug":"freesia-buffet-3071-longtown-commons-drive-january-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16878","title":{"rendered":"Freesia Buffet, 3071 Longtown Commons Drive: January 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620201.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620201_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620201_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620201_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620196.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620196_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620196_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620196_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620197.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620197_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620197_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620197_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620198.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620198_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620198_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620198_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620199.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620199_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620199_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620199_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620200_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620200_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620200_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620202.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620202_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620202_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620202_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620204.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/02\/p1620204_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620204_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620204_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There are a lot of Asian buffets in the DC area, and I used to end up there with the local staff whenever I was visiting the DC office.  Frankly, I never cared for it, so I have not tried any of the various Asian buffets in the Columbia area, and was not aware this one existed until commenter Sidney reported it closed.<\/p>\n<p>I will say it's a good looking building, though a bit hard to get to if you are heading toward Sandhill.  This area certainly has changed a lot in the past few years, and there's no sign of that stopping.<\/p>\n<p>I note that the door sign directs customers to the <i>Magnolia Buffet<\/i> in the old <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=11172\">Ryan's on Two Notch<\/a>, so I guess that has the same ownership.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Sidney)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3071+Longtown+Commons+Dr,+Columbia,+SC+29229\/\" 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>There are a lot of Asian buffets in the DC area, and I used to end up there with the local staff whenever I was visiting the DC office. Frankly, I never cared for it, so I have not tried any of the various Asian buffets in the Columbia area, and was not aware this [&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":[2972,165,1330,781,47,2974,2973,3],"class_list":["post-16878","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-3071-longtown-commons-drive","tag-asian","tag-blythewood","tag-buffet","tag-chinese","tag-killian-road","tag-longtown-commons-drive","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16878","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=16878"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16878\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16878"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16878"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16878"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}