{"id":25020,"date":"2025-12-01T22:30:43","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:30:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25020"},"modified":"2025-12-01T22:33:04","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T03:33:04","slug":"cafe-strudel-309-south-lake-drive-mid-october-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25020","title":{"rendered":"Cafe Strudel, 309 South Lake Drive: Mid October 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/12\/p2070508.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/12\/p2070508_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070508_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070508_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/12\/p2070509.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/12\/p2070509_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070509_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070509_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/12\/p2070510.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/12\/p2070510_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070510_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070510_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/12\/p2070511.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/12\/p2070511_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070511_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070511_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/12\/p2070512.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/12\/p2070512_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2070512_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2070512_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/cafestrudel.com\/\">Cafe Strudel<\/a> opened in this <a href=\"\">Lexington<\/a> restaurant space in May of 2018, replacing (after a hiatus) <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=9671\">Kovachi's<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>The <i>Cafe Strudel<\/i> brand, which included this store and the original <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=state-street\">State Street<\/a> location in <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=west-columbia\">West Columbia<\/a>, was recently purchased from its founders by the <i>Foundry Hospitality Group<\/i> which will be retaining the original flagship and bringing a yet to be specified new concept to this spot.<\/p>\n<p>Considering the the original location has been up since 1997, you might think I could have managed to stop by sometime in the last nigh unto 30 years, but in the event not yet.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about the closing on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.coladaily.com\/communities\/cafe-strudel-closes-in-lexington\/article_7cf33fe2-8f6a-4fef-9268-9a4b05af889d.html\">ColaDaily<\/a> or in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article312680480.html\">The State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter James R)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/309+S+Lake+Dr,+Lexington,+SC+29072\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cafe Strudel opened in this Lexington restaurant space in May of 2018, replacing (after a hiatus) Kovachi's. The Cafe Strudel brand, which included this store and the original State Street location in West Columbia, was recently purchased from its founders by the Foundry Hospitality Group which will be retaining the original flagship and bringing a [&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":[1499,394,4327,389,3,1498],"class_list":["post-25020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-309-south-lake-drive","tag-breakfast","tag-cafe-strudel","tag-lexington","tag-restaurants","tag-south-lake-drive"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25020","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=25020"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25020\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25025,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25020\/revisions\/25025"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}