{"id":22546,"date":"2023-11-01T23:07:22","date_gmt":"2023-11-02T03:07:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22546"},"modified":"2024-09-18T22:34:45","modified_gmt":"2024-09-19T02:34:45","slug":"mccarys-bar-grill-851-bush-river-road-fall-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22546","title":{"rendered":"Kentucky Fried Chicken \/ McCary's Bar &#038; Grill, 851 Bush River Road: Fall 2023 (Open Again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910749.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910749_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910749_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910749_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910750.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910750_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910750_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910750_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910751.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910751_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910751_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910751_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910752.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910752_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910752_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910752_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910753.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910753_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910753_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910753_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910754.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910754_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910754_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910754_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910755.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910755_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910755_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910755_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910756.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910756_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910756_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910756_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910757.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910757_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910757_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910757_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910758.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/11\/p1910758_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1910758_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1910758_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>McCary's Bar & Grill<\/i> (the sign suggests <i>McCary's Sports Bar & Grille<\/i>, but the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/McCarysBar\/\">Facebook page<\/a> doesn't support that) shares a parking lot with <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22508\">the phone & loan building<\/a> that featured here last week.<\/p>\n<p>Judging from the Google reviews, this place probably closed around September of 2023, though given their last <i>Facebook<\/I> post was 22 June 2023, and there was <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/local\/shooting-sends-one-to-the-hospital-say-deputies-south-carolina\/101-aff8df30-ab02-46d1-afab-33ae0006fa8d\">a shooting there on 28 June 2023<\/a>, it's possible they did not re-open after that.<\/p>\n<p>I'm not sure how long ago this incarnation started, but the building has been a bar as long as I can recall.  The reviews suggest there was not much Irish about it beyond the logo and name at this point, so possibly the ownership changed sometime in the past.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 6 December 2023<\/b>: Adding <i>Kentucky Fried Chicken<\/i> to the post title based on comments from KC & Brandon.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 18 September 2024<\/b> -- Open again as <i>The New McCary's Bar & Grill<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/24\/09\/p1990253.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/24\/09\/p1990253_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1990253_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1990253_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/851+Bush+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>McCary's Bar &#038; Grill (the sign suggests McCary's Sports Bar &#038; Grille, but the Facebook page doesn't support that) shares a parking lot with the phone &#038; loan building that featured here last week. Judging from the Google reviews, this place probably closed around September of 2023, though given their last Facebook post was 22 [&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":[3882,2076,210,2133],"class_list":["post-22546","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-851-bush-river-road","tag-bars","tag-bush-river-road","tag-nightclubs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22546","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=22546"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22546\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22546"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22546"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22546"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}