{"id":258,"date":"2008-12-06T01:02:01","date_gmt":"2008-12-06T06:02:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=258"},"modified":"2008-12-06T01:02:01","modified_gmt":"2008-12-06T06:02:01","slug":"el-patio-mexican-japanese-habachi-us-17-bypass-2008","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=258","title":{"rendered":"El Patio Mexican &#038; Japanese Habachi, US 17 Bypass: 2008"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/el_patio_mexican_hibachi.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/12\/el_patio_mexican_hibachi_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Honestly, how could a restaurant with such a strong concept possibly fail?<\/p>\n<p>I first became aware of this restaurant building on the US 17 Bypass just below the old Myrtle Beach Airforce Base back gate, when it was painted to resemble a <i>Waffle House<\/i>.  It was <i>not<\/i> a Waffle House, mind you -- it had some non-actionable name like \"Waffle Hut\", but you have to pity a place that is a Waffle House <i>wannabee<\/i>.  After that incarnation went south (probably about the time be base closed and the bowling alley behind the restaurant went under as well), it became, I believe <i>The Bean Pot<\/i>.  To me that suggests a vegatarian restaurant, but I never looked any closer to see if that were true.  The next owners were the ones who hit on the fool-proof plan of combining Mexican and Japanese and the rest is history.  Re-fried, fried rice, yum!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Honestly, how could a restaurant with such a strong concept possibly fail? I first became aware of this restaurant building on the US 17 Bypass just below the old Myrtle Beach Airforce Base back gate, when it was painted to resemble a Waffle House. It was not a Waffle House, mind you -- it had [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[6,3],"class_list":["post-258","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-grand-strand","tag-restaurants"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258","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=258"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/258\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=258"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=258"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=258"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}