{"id":25637,"date":"2026-07-09T22:40:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:40:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25637"},"modified":"2026-07-09T22:40:30","modified_gmt":"2026-07-10T02:40:30","slug":"il-focolare-pizzeria-2150-sumter-street-4-july-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25637","title":{"rendered":"Il Focolare Pizzeria, 2150 Sumter Street: 4 July 2026 (Temporary)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2120163.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2120163_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2120163_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2120163_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2120164.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/07\/p2120164_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2120164_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2120164_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Il Focolare Pizzeria<\/i> suffered some unwanted fireworks the night of the Fourth as a kitchen fire did enough damage to shut them down for an unknown period of time while repairs are made.  When I drove by, it looked like the damage did not extend to the exterior walls or roof of the building, but as you can see from the pictures in the various links below, the cooking area is rather frazzled.<\/p>\n<p><i>Il Focolare Pizzeria<\/i> started in 2019, and replaced another pizza spot <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=15915\">Citta del Cotone<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>You can read about the fire at the restaurant's <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/ilfocolarepizzeria\">Facebook<\/a>, in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/living\/food-drink\/article316397879.html\">The State<\/a> or on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/2026\/07\/06\/weekend-fire-shuts-down-columbia-pizza-restaurant\/\">WIS<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter James R)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/2150+Sumter+St,+Columbia,+SC+29201\/\" target=\"_blank\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Il Focolare Pizzeria suffered some unwanted fireworks the night of the Fourth as a kitchen fire did enough damage to shut them down for an unknown period of time while repairs are made. When I drove by, it looked like the damage did not extend to the exterior walls or roof of the building, but [&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":[2805,2806,27,3,102],"class_list":["post-25637","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-2150-sumter-street","tag-cotton-town","tag-pizza","tag-restaurants","tag-sumter-street"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637","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=25637"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25640,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25637\/revisions\/25640"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25637"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25637"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25637"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}