{"id":21597,"date":"2023-03-07T19:18:43","date_gmt":"2023-03-08T00:18:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21597"},"modified":"2023-05-09T22:38:53","modified_gmt":"2023-05-10T02:38:53","slug":"pon-di-river-caribbean-bar-and-bistro-2344-broad-river-road-early-2023-temporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=21597","title":{"rendered":"Pon Di River Caribbean Bar and Bistro, 2344 Broad River Road: Early 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870153.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870153_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870153_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870153_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870154.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870154_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870154_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870154_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870155.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870155_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870155_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870155_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870156.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870156_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870156_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870156_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870157.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/03\/p1870157_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1870157_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1870157_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This Island restaurant replaced <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14633\">Applebee's<\/a> in 2020, not a great year to start a restaurant.<\/p>\n<p>As far as I can tell, they were open up until a month or so ago, at which time they closed for renovations.  As there is an actual construction dumpster on the property, I trust that is actually happening, in which hope I'm bolstered by the \"Now Hiring\" sign.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 9 May 2023<\/b>: As it turns out they re-opened as a new business, so I am taking the temporary tag off the post title.  The new name is <i>Tha River Sports Bar & Grill<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/05\/p1880253.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/05\/p1880253_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880253_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880253_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/05\/p1880254.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/05\/p1880254_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1880254_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1880254_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2344+Broad+River+Rd,+Columbia,+SC+29210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Island restaurant replaced Applebee's in 2020, not a great year to start a restaurant. As far as I can tell, they were open up until a month or so ago, at which time they closed for renovations. As there is an actual construction dumpster on the property, I trust that is actually happening, in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[2598,45,179,3691,3],"class_list":["post-21597","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2344-broad-river-road","tag-broad-river-road","tag-caribbean","tag-island","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21597","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=21597"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21597\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=21597"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=21597"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=21597"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}