{"id":1875,"date":"2010-04-24T01:59:21","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T06:59:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1875"},"modified":"2010-04-24T01:59:21","modified_gmt":"2010-04-24T06:59:21","slug":"la-pizza-cucina-110-columbia-northeast-drive-2007","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=1875","title":{"rendered":"La Pizza Cucina, 110 Columbia Northeast Drive: 2007"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Columbia Northeast Drive is the official name of the easternmost little access road from Two Notch back into the Big Lots<\/i> \/ Dunkin' Donuts<\/i> plaza on Two Notch Road just west of Spring Valley. Both the main plaza and this little side strip-mall have been down at the heels for years though they have generally avoided vacancies. Aside from having the only Peurto Rican restaurant in Columbia (that I know of anyway), the strip also has the only Indian Restaurant in the Northeast.<\/p>\n

La Pizza Cucina<\/i> was, I think in the storefront now occupied by San Juan<\/i> (which itself used to be at the bottom of the strip parallel to Two Notch at one time). A, personal web calendar (apparently not updated since 2004) describes La Pizza Cucina<\/i> thus:
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\nLa Pizza Cucina<\/p>\n

Serving gourmet pizza pies and over 100 beers and wines to choose from, this quaint little pizza parlor offers you the infectious hospitality of a \"Cheers\" styled pub. Come eat here once, and you're a friend for life. \"There's edible and there's Incredible\" - La Pizza Cucina<\/blockquote<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I suspect the restaurant supplied the text to the performers as I think it is pretty close to how they used to advertise. I'm saying the place closed in 2007 because it is not in the 2008 phonebook but it was still in a newspaper restaurant listing (which are notoriously slow to fix closures) in February of 2008<\/a>.<\/p>\n

I had only two problems with La Pizza Cucina<\/i>:<\/p>\n

1) I expected \"gourmet\" pizza to be, you know, good, and instead found it pretty mediocre.<\/p>\n

2) The staff, at least on shift the one time I went, was rude. In particular, there was a table of teenage boys -- being<\/i> teenage boys. They weren't thugs, they weren't trying to create a disturbance, they were just having a good time. One of them rocked his chair onto the back legs, and the manager came down on him like a ton of bricks. I thought it was totally inappropriate. No, it's not good for the chairs, but your restaurant chair is not going to be handed down to your grandkids. If something absolutely had to be said, it could have been said politely.<\/p>\n

Anyway, I never went back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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