{"id":25830,"date":"2026-09-18T22:38:30","date_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:38:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25830"},"modified":"2026-09-18T22:39:12","modified_gmt":"2026-09-19T02:39:12","slug":"hickory-tavern-907-senate-street-23-august-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25830","title":{"rendered":"Hickory Tavern, 907 Senate Street: 23 August 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130700.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130700_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2130700_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2130700_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130701.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130701_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2130701_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2130701_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130702.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/26\/09\/p2130702_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2130702_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2130702_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I don't believe I have yet successfully eaten at a <i>Hickory Tavern<\/i>.  The first time I tried, at <i>Woodhill<\/i>, they had just closed the regular dining room and were serving at hightops only.  Since the last time I enjoyed sitting in a high-chair, my mother was feeding me, I declined.  The second time, also at <i>Woodhill<\/i> was during the tail-end of the pandemic when nobody had any staff.  I sat on the patio, and after an hour nobody had taken my order, so I just left.<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, they were apparently bought-out in 2025, and the new owners are evaluating all the locations going forward.  Apparently this location in <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?tag=congaree-vista\">The Vista<\/a> did not make the cut, though with the demolition of the <a href=\"https:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=25780\">Five Guys<\/a> building it does now have a nice view of the Capitol dome.<\/p>\n<p>You can see the story <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wistv.com\/2026\/08\/24\/hickory-tavern-closes-downtown-columbia-location\/\">at WIS<\/a> or read about it in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.thestate.com\/living\/food-drink\/article316991894.html\">The State<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Gypsie, et al)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/907+Senate+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>I don't believe I have yet successfully eaten at a Hickory Tavern. The first time I tried, at Woodhill, they had just closed the regular dining room and were serving at hightops only. Since the last time I enjoyed sitting in a high-chair, my mother was feeding me, I declined. The second time, also at [&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":[4467,2076,256,4468,3,261,195],"class_list":["post-25830","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-907-senate-street","tag-bars","tag-congaree-vista","tag-hickory-tavern","tag-restaurants","tag-senate-street","tag-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830","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=25830"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":25834,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25830\/revisions\/25834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=25830"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=25830"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=25830"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}