{"id":178,"date":"2008-09-18T22:13:50","date_gmt":"2008-09-19T03:13:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=178"},"modified":"2008-10-13T02:03:45","modified_gmt":"2008-10-13T07:03:45","slug":"saffron-devine-street-september-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=178","title":{"rendered":"Saffron, Devine Street: September 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/saffron04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/saffron04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/saffron02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/saffron02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/saffron01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/saffron01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/saffron03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/09\/saffron03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Well, that lasted about, hmm, about two months and a bit given that I <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3\">posted <\/a> this shot on 3 July 2008:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/saffron02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/07\/saffron02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Saffron<\/i> was the new Moroccan restaurant which opened in the building vacated by the closure of Al-Amir across the plaza from <i>Za's Pizza<\/i> on Devine Street.  I thought it was a bit curious that one Middle-Eastern restaurant was followed by another.  The <i>Free Times<\/i> gave it a <a href=\"http:\/\/free-times.com\/index.php?cat=121304064644348&z_Issue_ID=11011806083108192&ShowArchiveArticle_ID=11011806083509107&Year=2008\">mixed review<\/a> when it launched, and I never got around to trying it.  I had thought that perhaps the fact that, unlike Al-Amir, it served alcohol might have given it a leg up in a location that (at least at Za's) seems to attract a party crowd, but apparently not.<\/p>\n<p>This still leaves the <i>The Mediterranean Tea Room<\/i> as an option for falaffel, tabouli and the like, but I find their hours a bit restrictive.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 13 Oct 2008<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p>Looks like <i>another<\/i> middle-eastern place is coming to this spot.  Get read for <i>Tabouli<\/i>!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/10\/tabouli01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/10\/tabouli01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Well, that lasted about, hmm, about two months and a bit given that I posted this shot on 3 July 2008: Saffron was the new Moroccan restaurant which opened in the building vacated by the closure of Al-Amir across the plaza from Za's Pizza on Devine Street. I thought it was a bit curious that [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-178","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178","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=178"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/178\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=178"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=178"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=178"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}