{"id":25150,"date":"2026-02-02T21:52:42","date_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:52:42","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25150"},"modified":"2026-02-02T21:54:26","modified_gmt":"2026-02-03T02:54:26","slug":"hibachi-express-2313-north-beltline-boulevard-31-january-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25150","title":{"rendered":"Hibachi Express, 2313 North Beltline Boulevard Suite A: 31 January 2026 (Temporary?)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I believe the first tenant in this spot after it was built was <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=34\">Bruster's Real Ice Cream<\/a>, but <i>Hibachi Express<\/i> has been there quite a while now.  I hope it will be there in the future, but the place appears pretty well gutted by the Saturday morning two-alarm fire.<\/p>\n<p>The restaurant was open at the time, but luckily all the crew and customers are safe.  So far the cause of the fire is unknown.  You can read about it at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.postandcourier.com\/columbia\/news\/forest-acres-hibachi-express-fire\/article_819a1967-e4bc-4351-aa1d-f24d5222a20d.html\">The Post & Courier<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/news\/local\/article314543923.html\">The State<\/a> or see video at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wltx.com\/article\/news\/local\/hibachi-express-forest-acres-fire-damage-saturday\/101-8937671c-6685-4195-a065-0eed2dc34f74\">WLTX<\/a> or <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/2026\/01\/31\/no-injuries-reported-after-two-alarm-fire-forest-acres-restaurant\/\">WIS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170024.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170024_tn.jpg\" title=\"img_20260202_170024_tn.jpg\" alt=\"img_20260202_170024_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170148.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170148_tn.jpg\" title=\"img_20260202_170148_tn.jpg\" alt=\"img_20260202_170148_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170200.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170200_tn.jpg\" title=\"img_20260202_170200_tn.jpg\" alt=\"img_20260202_170200_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170211.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170211_tn.jpg\" title=\"img_20260202_170211_tn.jpg\" alt=\"img_20260202_170211_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170220.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170220_tn.jpg\" title=\"img_20260202_170220_tn.jpg\" alt=\"img_20260202_170220_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170227.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/02\/img_20260202_170227_tn.jpg\" title=\"img_20260202_170227_tn.jpg\" alt=\"img_20260202_170227_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2313+N+Beltline+Blvd+unit+a,+Columbia,+SC,+United+States,+29204\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to Mr. Guy)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I believe the first tenant in this spot after it was built was Bruster's Real Ice Cream, but Hibachi Express has been there quite a while now. I hope it will be there in the future, but the place appears pretty well gutted by the Saturday morning two-alarm fire. The restaurant was open at the [&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":[2982,127,269,310,1387,3],"class_list":["post-25150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2313-north-beltline-boulevard","tag-beltline-boulevard","tag-forest-acres","tag-hibachi","tag-north-beltline-boulevard","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150","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=25150"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25156,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25150\/revisions\/25156"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}