{"id":3326,"date":"2011-03-08T00:48:06","date_gmt":"2011-03-08T05:48:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3326"},"modified":"2018-06-17T01:31:35","modified_gmt":"2018-06-17T05:31:35","slug":"wata-wing-6164-saint-andrews-road-february-2011","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3326","title":{"rendered":"Wata Wing, 6164 Saint Andrews Road: February 2011"},"content":{"rendered":"

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I was a bit reluctant to do this post yet, hoping that the place was going to make it, but I've been by several times within the posted hours (including a Saturday evening) and found it dark (though the phone still rings..)<\/p>\n

At any rate, I first wrote of this building when I did a closing for longtime tenant Little Mexico and follow-on Cancun<\/a>.<\/p>\n

After Cancun<\/i> another Mexican operation Mi Tierra<\/a> set up shop in the building, and lasted about a year. (And you should visit both of those closing links because the previous comments and pictures for Wata Wing<\/i> are spread out between them).<\/p>\n

After Mi Tierra<\/i> closed, there were indications fairly early on that the place was to become a Wata Wing<\/i> chicken wing operation. The setup seemed quite protracted, and with the stall out of the Wata Wing<\/i> roll-out in the old Taco Bell on Knox Abbott<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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combined with reports of some legal difficulties the chain (which I should stress is probably totally different people in different areas) was facing in Maryland<\/a>, it seemed for a time that this location might not open.<\/p>\n

In the event it did open some time between 3 November 2010 and 1 December 2010<\/a> when commenter Badger stopped by.<\/p>\n

I had thought<\/a>, given this sign:<\/p>\n

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that the operation might be headed in a Hooters<\/i>, Wing House<\/a> direction with the \"Wata Girls\" front and center, but that seems not to have been the case<\/a>.<\/p>\n

If this location is closed (and it certainly seems to be), then that would throw into question the opening of a Wata Wing<\/i> in the old Shoney's<\/a>\/Santa Fe<\/a>\/Savannah's<\/a> location on Two Notch Road:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 23 May 2011<\/b> -- More bad news:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 18 June 2012<\/b> -- Another refit is underway. This time it is to be Luce Cucina Italiana<\/i>:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 12 September 2012<\/b> -- The Italian place is getting close to opening:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 27 October 2012<\/b> -- Luce Cucina Italiana<\/i> is now open:<\/p>\n

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I was a bit reluctant to do this post yet, hoping that the place was going to make it, but I've been by several times within the posted hours (including a Saturday evening) and found it dark (though the phone still rings..) At any rate, I first wrote of this building when I did a […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1491,198,3,177,454],"class_list":["post-3326","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-6164-saint-andrews-road","tag-irmo","tag-restaurants","tag-saint-andrews-road","tag-wings"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326","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=3326"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3326\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3326"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3326"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3326"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}