{"id":22716,"date":"2023-12-28T23:41:03","date_gmt":"2023-12-29T04:41:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22716"},"modified":"2023-12-28T23:46:21","modified_gmt":"2023-12-29T04:46:21","slug":"olde-country-buffet-1211-sunset-boulevard-september-2023","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=22716","title":{"rendered":"Olde Country Buffet, 1211 Sunset Boulevard: September 2023"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/12\/p1920723.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/12\/p1920723_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1920723_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1920723_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/12\/p1920724.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/12\/p1920724_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1920724_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1920724_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/23\/12\/p1920725.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/23\/12\/p1920725_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1920725_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1920725_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This restaurant storefront near <i>New Brookland Baptist<\/i> has been a number of home-cooking themed operations over the years, most recently previous to this I believe it was <a href=http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=14707\">JackSon's Southern Kitchen<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><i>Olde Country Buffet<\/i> moved here from <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=20246\">the former Happy China location<\/a> in the <i>Food Lion<\/i> plaza further down sunset.  That was written up <a href=\"https:\/\/westmetronews.com\/olde-country-buffet-moves-to-a-new-location-on-sunset-boulevard-in-west-columbia\/\">here<\/a>, as was the August 2022 <i>Grand Opening<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coladaily.com\/business\/olde-country-buffet-in-west-columbia-hosting-grand-opening-celebration\/article_f3bbaffa-2537-11ed-81d2-1ffdc4ccb224.html\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Then in October of 2023, the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchronicle.com\/stories\/months-after-relocation-west-columbia-buffet-appears-to-have-closed-again,75119\">Lexington Chronicle noted<\/a> that the restaurant appeared to have been closed for at least a month.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, it appears that the owner got into some legal trouble over taxes and was arrested as detailed <a href=\"https:\/\/www.lexingtonchronicle.com\/stories\/olde-country-buffet-owner-arrested-for-tax-evasion-operating-without-license,75877\">here<\/a>, though the restaurant was closed well before that happened.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Matt)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/1211+Sunset+Blvd,+West+Columbia,+SC+29169\/\" 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 restaurant storefront near New Brookland Baptist has been a number of home-cooking themed operations over the years, most recently previous to this I believe it was<\/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":[],"class_list":["post-22716","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22716","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=22716"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22716\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=22716"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=22716"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=22716"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}