{"id":3468,"date":"2011-03-29T23:45:38","date_gmt":"2011-03-30T04:45:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3468"},"modified":"2011-03-29T23:51:30","modified_gmt":"2011-03-30T04:51:30","slug":"don-pedro-mexican-restaurant-2200-a-airport-boulevard-2006","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=3468","title":{"rendered":"Don Pedro Mexican Restaurant, 2200-A Airport Boulevard: 2006"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200710.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200710_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200711.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200711_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200712.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200712_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200713.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/11\/03\/p1200713_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>As is the case with most non-national Mexican restaurants, <i>Don Pedro<\/i> was not the first restaurant operation in this building.  To me it has sort of a <i>Howard Johnson<\/i> look to it, but I could be wrong.  At any rate, the building is sited at, though not affiliated with, the <i>Travellers Inn<\/i> motel at the intersection of Airport Boulevard and I-26.  I never made it to <i>Don Pedro<\/i> since I figured it would be about the same as a number of closer  Mexican establishments.  (Though the <i>Free Times<\/i> link below associates it with the <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=2231\">Don Pedro on Two Notch<\/a> which was supposed to be quite good).<\/p>\n<p>I give 2006 as the closing date since it showed up in the <i>Free Times<\/i> <a href=\"http:\/\/archives.free-times.com\/Guides\/Bites_Sights_2006\/bites_mexican.html\">Bites & Sights<\/a> guide for 2006, but apparently no other year, and was not in the Feb 2007 phonebook.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As is the case with most non-national Mexican restaurants, Don Pedro was not the first restaurant operation in this building. To me it has sort of a Howard Johnson look to it, but I could be wrong. At any rate, the building is sited at, though not affiliated with, the Travellers Inn motel at the [&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":[159,174,83,3,540,57],"class_list":["post-3468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-airport-boulevard","tag-i-26","tag-mexican","tag-restaurants","tag-springdale","tag-west-columbia"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468","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=3468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3468\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=3468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=3468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=3468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}