{"id":16981,"date":"2020-03-14T00:44:57","date_gmt":"2020-03-14T04:44:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16981"},"modified":"2020-11-21T01:09:58","modified_gmt":"2020-11-21T06:09:58","slug":"aladdin-mediterranean-groceries-restaurant-655-saint-andrews-road-late-2018","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=16981","title":{"rendered":"Aladdin Mediterranean Groceries &#038; Restaurant, 655 Saint Andrews Road: Late 2018"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/sa_newsstand01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/01\/sa_newsstand01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620336.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/20\/03\/p1620336_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1620336_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1620336_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Aladdin<\/i> occupied the spot formerly allocated to the Saint Andrews branch of <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=302\">Capitol Newsstand<\/a>, and was apparently more of a grocery than a restaurant, at least according to both their name and their <a href=\"https:\/\/www.yelp.com\/biz\/aladdin-mediterranean-cuisine-columbia\">Yelp reviews<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I had thought they had closed several years ago, but I see they listed in the 2018 phonebook, so I will say \"2018\" for the closing date.  They have been replaced by one of the inexplicable raft of new crab restaurants in town.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 21 November 2020<\/b>: Updated tags<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/655+Saint+Andrews+Rd,+Columbia,+SC+29210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Aladdin occupied the spot formerly allocated to the Saint Andrews branch of Capitol Newsstand, and was apparently more of a grocery than a restaurant, at least according to both their name and their Yelp reviews. I had thought they had closed several years ago, but I see they listed in the 2018 phonebook, so I [&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":[2306,143,688,347,177,937],"class_list":["post-16981","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-655-saint-andrews-road","tag-groceries","tag-mediterranean","tag-middle-eastern","tag-saint-andrews-road","tag-st-andrews-square"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981","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=16981"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16981\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=16981"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=16981"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=16981"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}