{"id":22144,"date":"2023-08-14T23:29:01","date_gmt":"2023-08-15T03:29:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22144"},"modified":"2023-08-14T23:29:01","modified_gmt":"2023-08-15T03:29:01","slug":"le-clos-20-south-2nd-street-fernandina-beach-10-april-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22144","title":{"rendered":"Le Clos, 20 South 2nd Street (Fernandina Beach): 10 April 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1890033.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1890033_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1890033_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1890033_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1890034.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1890034_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1890034_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1890034_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1890035.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1890035_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1890035_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1890035_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1890036.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/08\/p1890036_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1890036_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1890036_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Le Clos<\/i> was a little French restaurant in a 1906 cottage just across the street from the <i>Hampton Inn<\/i> in <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=fernandina-beach\">Fernandina Beach<\/a>'s historic waterfront district.  I'm not a big French cuisine fan (at least for main dishes), but the pasta looked very good, so I stopped by one night and can verify it was excellent, along with (as you would expect) great bread, and a fantastic <i>creme brulee<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>I was surprised then on my most recent visit to see the place with the sign down and stripped internally.  At first the story seemed rather clear-cut as described <a href=\"https:\/\/fernandinaobserver.com\/city-news\/beloved-le-clos-abruptly-closes\/\">here<\/a>: The owner decided to close the place, although she was able to place the staff at other local spots.  A <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tripadvisor.com\/ShowTopic-g34341-i684-k14351345-Le_Clos_ing-Amelia_Island_Florida.html\">thread on TripAdvisor<\/a> suggests a more confusing story, as does the cafe's <a href=\"https:\/\/leclos.com\/\">web site<\/a> which suggests it may re-open this fall.<\/p>\n<p>Whatever comes next, it appears the building will need some work.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/20+S+2nd+St,+Fernandina+Beach,+FL+32034\/\" 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>Le Clos was a little French restaurant in a 1906 cottage just across the street from the Hampton Inn in Fernandina Beach's historic waterfront district. I'm not a big French cuisine fan (at least for main dishes), but the pasta looked very good, so I stopped by one night and can verify it was excellent, [&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":[3803,3805,656,524,353,16,3,3804],"class_list":["post-22144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-20-south-2nd-street","tag-2nd-street","tag-fernandina-beach","tag-florida","tag-french","tag-out-of-area","tag-restaurants","tag-south-2nd-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22144","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=22144"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22144\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22144"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22144"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22144"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}