{"id":25500,"date":"2026-05-18T22:23:29","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:23:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25500"},"modified":"2026-05-18T22:23:29","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T02:23:29","slug":"lizards-thicket-3147-forest-drive-11-may-2026-temporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25500","title":{"rendered":"Lizard's Thicket, 3147 Forest Drive: 11 May 2026 (Temporary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100906.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100906_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2100906_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2100906_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100907.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100907_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2100907_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2100907_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100908.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100908_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2100908_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2100908_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100909.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100909_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2100909_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2100909_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100910.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100910_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2100910_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2100910_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100911.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100911_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2100911_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2100911_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100912.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100912_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2100912_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2100912_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100913.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/05\/p2100913_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2100913_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2100913_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>This <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=lizards-thicket\">Lizard's Thicket<\/a>, in a <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2942\">former Shoney's building<\/a> on <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=forest-drive\">Forest Drive<\/a> is closed for renovations.  The chain just redid <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=24538\">one in Lexington<\/a> as well, so perhaps they are looking to freshen up several sites.  Of course, to my memory, <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=9921\">the one on Beltline<\/a> was updated and nonetheless closed.<\/p>\n<p>I last at at this one on my niece's birthday last December, and it was fine: Your typical <i>Lizard's<\/i> experience.  I don't recall noticing anything particularly wrong with the physical plant, but who knows what kind of issues there might be behind the counters.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/3147+Forest+Dr,+Columbia,+SC+29204\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This Lizard's Thicket, in a former Shoney's building on Forest Drive is closed for renovations. The chain just redid one in Lexington as well, so perhaps they are looking to freshen up several sites. Of course, to my memory, the one on Beltline was updated and nonetheless closed. I last at at this one on [&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":[3092,1322,269,96,2592,3,886],"class_list":["post-25500","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-3147-forest-drive","tag-country-cooking","tag-forest-acres","tag-forest-drive","tag-lizards-thicket","tag-restaurants","tag-southern"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500","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=25500"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25504,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25500\/revisions\/25504"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25500"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25500"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25500"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}