{"id":1792,"date":"2010-04-12T01:30:27","date_gmt":"2010-04-12T06:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1792"},"modified":"2010-09-01T23:52:59","modified_gmt":"2010-09-02T04:52:59","slug":"cicis-pizza-2732-decker-boulevard-april-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1792","title":{"rendered":"Cici&apos;s Pizza, 2732 Decker Boulevard: April 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici01.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici01_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As I was coming out of <i>Staples<\/i> the other day, I noticed that <i>Cici's Pizza Buffet<\/i> in Fashion Place, the hard-luck plaza at the corner of Decker & Trenholm Extension was closed.  Frankly, I had only been vaguely aware that it was there.  I kind of took <i>Cici's<\/i> off my list of places to try when a soldier in Augusta told me that the one on Washington Road was the worst pizza he'd ever had and he'd had a lot of bad pizza.  Now, it could have been a purely local issue, or he could have just been wrong (after all, could it really be worse than <i>Chuck E Cheese<\/i>?), but I figured <i>Why risk it?<\/i> and have yet to darken a <i>Cici's<\/i> door.<\/p>\n<p><i>Cici's<\/i> is not the first pizza restaurant to close in <i>Fashion Place<\/i> as <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=68\">The Italian Oven<\/a> blazed that trail years ago.  The first day I noticed it, there were still some guys inside doing inventory-looking stuff, and as of today there is still a lot of equipment and pizza boxes in there.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici05.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici05_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici06.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici06_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici07.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici07_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici08.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/04\/cici08_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 2 Sept 2010<\/b> -- This Cici's has now been replaced with another pizza buffet \"Gabby's\":<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/10\/08\/p1150569.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/10\/08\/p1150569_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As I was coming out of Staples the other day, I noticed that Cici's Pizza Buffet in Fashion Place, the hard-luck plaza at the corner of Decker &#038; Trenholm Extension was closed. Frankly, I had only been vaguely aware that it was there. I kind of took Cici's off my list of places to try [&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":[92,27,3,98],"class_list":["post-1792","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-decker-boulevard","tag-pizza","tag-restaurants","tag-trenholm-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792","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=1792"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1792\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1792"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1792"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1792"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}