{"id":469,"date":"2009-07-16T23:12:53","date_gmt":"2009-07-17T04:12:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=469"},"modified":"2011-12-21T02:21:57","modified_gmt":"2011-12-21T07:21:57","slug":"brixx-wood-fired-pizza-486-town-center-place-village-at-sandhill-14-july-2009-temporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=469","title":{"rendered":"Brixx Wood Fired Pizza, 486 Town Center Place (Village at Sandhill): 14 July 2009 (temporary) \/ 16 December 2011 (final)"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Well, this<\/a> is unpleasant news:<\/p>\n

\nColumbia Fire Department firefighters were dispatched at 11:09 p.m. to 486 Town Center Place, the location of Brixx Wood Fire Pizza, where a fire had spread up a flue from a pizza oven, Assistant Chief Aubrey Jenkins said.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Brixx<\/i> is one of my regular after 10pm Tuesday night pizza hangouts (Pizzeria Uno<\/i> on US-378 is the other), and it's pretty much a roll of the dice that put me at Uno<\/i> on the 14th rather than enjoying the fun here. Luckily, nobody was hurt. I'm a bit surprised that the news story states that the fire was post closing -- Usually they don't close until midnight or 1am.<\/p>\n

I think Brixx<\/i> is a bit of a frustrating place in that they have a good concept and very attentive staff, but the food execution could be better. They have lots of different combos and some more unusual ingredients, but often when I get a custom pizza, the extra stuff on top is not hot, and the crust and sauce are acceptable, but not great. (Landolfi's<\/i> at Pawleys Island is the best brick-oven pizza in SC, arguably the best pizza in SC period). Anyway, the sign on the door says closed until further notice, but I hope they come back soon and better than ever.<\/p>\n

While I was in there once, one of the wait staff mentioned that the people living upstairs had been complaining about the noise at night -- I suppose that's the good old days now!<\/p>\n

These pictures are not very good because at first there was a group of men standing under the front awning with clipboards making some sort of assesment of the situation and I didn't want to just walk up and stick my camera under their noses, snapping away. After that, it started to rain, and I had to stand under an awning at Which Wich<\/i>. There were some sort of hoses running to the upstairs apartments, but given my angle you can't see them.<\/p>\n

UPDATE 20 July 2009<\/b>: OK, some more pictures, a bit closer:<\/p>\n

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UPDATE 21 December 2011<\/b>:<\/p>\n

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Well, Brixx<\/i> is closed again, this time for good. I had not been there too much lately because my situation had changed, and I could get to some closer places that closed earlier. However, I did make it there several times after they re-opened, with the last time being on Sunday 11 December 2011. It still wasn't my favorite pizza in town, but a perfectly acceptable one, and my toppings were all nice and hot the times I got back there recently. The waitresses were always good about keeping the tea refills coming too.<\/p>\n

I don't know what this says about the Village at Sandhill<\/i> except that it can't be good news for them as they have taken several hits in 2011 including Talbots<\/a>, Corked<\/a>, AAA<\/a> and La Fogata<\/a>.<\/p>\n

(Hat tip to commenter Sidney)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Well, this is unpleasant news: Columbia Fire Department firefighters were dispatched at 11:09 p.m. to 486 Town Center Place, the location of Brixx Wood Fire Pizza, where a fire had spread up a flue from a pizza oven, Assistant Chief Aubrey Jenkins said. Brixx is one of my regular after 10pm Tuesday night pizza hangouts […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[136,27,3,167,36],"class_list":["post-469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-clemson-road","tag-pizza","tag-restaurants","tag-town-center-place","tag-village-at-sandhill"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469","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=469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/469\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}