{"id":25080,"date":"2026-01-12T22:35:11","date_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:35:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25080"},"modified":"2026-01-12T22:35:11","modified_gmt":"2026-01-13T03:35:11","slug":"kairos-mediterranean-4600-devine-street-14-december-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25080","title":{"rendered":"Kairos Mediterranean, 4600 Devine Street: 14 December 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080283.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080283_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2080283_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2080283_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080284.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080284_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2080284_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2080284_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080285.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080285_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2080285_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2080285_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080286.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080286_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2080286_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2080286_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080287.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080287_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2080287_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2080287_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080288.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080288_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2080288_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2080288_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080289.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/01\/p2080289_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2080289_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2080289_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Kairos<\/i> was part of the first wave of tenants in this new building which was constructed after the razing of the old <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15118\">Ruby Tuesday<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>I ate here probably a dozen times or so over the several years it was open.  Originally they had a few tables on the sidewalk in front of the store which I liked to sit at in good weather, but at some point they lost those, and nobody working there seemed to know anything about it.<\/p>\n<p>I was rather ambivalent about the concept itself.  I believe someone here called it \"bowls of goo\" a few months ago, and that was kind of an issue.  I found that if I just treated it as a bespoke salad, it was good, but trying to go beyond that was just too much thrown together that should probably have been separate.<\/p>\n<p>The place closed without warning (as restaurants tend to do) in mid-December, and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/local\/kairos-on-devine-closes-suddenly-employees-shocked-by-abrupt-notice-south-carolina\/101-4b07f102-aa75-4051-b69b-a68440aaaa2d\">WLTX<\/a> story is here.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to Mr. Hat)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/4600+Devine+St,+Columbia,+SC+29205\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Kairos was part of the first wave of tenants in this new building which was constructed after the razing of the old Ruby Tuesday. I ate here probably a dozen times or so over the several years it was open. Originally they had a few tables on the sidewalk in front of the store which [&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":[2690,4336,111,4335,3],"class_list":["post-25080","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-4600-devine-street","tag-bowls","tag-devine-street","tag-kairos-mediterranean","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080","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=25080"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25083,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25080\/revisions\/25083"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25080"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25080"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25080"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}