{"id":478,"date":"2009-07-23T23:57:03","date_gmt":"2009-07-24T04:57:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=478"},"modified":"2014-05-28T00:32:24","modified_gmt":"2014-05-28T05:32:24","slug":"momos-bistro-2930-devine-street-july-2009-temporary","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=478","title":{"rendered":"Momo's Bistro, 2930 Devine Street: Late May 2014 (closed again)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/momo04.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/momo04_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/momo03.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/07\/momo03_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I was at <i>Za's<\/i> and noticed that <i>Momo's Bistro<\/i> in the same strip was dark, so I went over to take a look and snap a few pictures (the flash worked better than I expected).  After that, and a bit of googling around, I'm not entirely sure of the status of this place.<\/p>\n<p>The sign on the door suggests that they will \"hopefully\" be back at the start of August while the message on their answering machine says the <i>end<\/i> of August while their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Columbia-SC\/MoMos-Bistro\/82778526654\">facebook page<\/a>doesn't commit them to anything specific.  On the other hand, <a href=\"http:\/\/franklinjonesrealteam.blogspot.com\/2009\/07\/momos-bistro-on-devine-closing-doors.html\">this site (which I would expect to be pretty careful about what goes out under their logo)<\/a> seems to imply that they are gone for good.<\/p>\n<p>I would say that the phone still being connected and the <a href=\" http:\/\/momosondevine.com\/\">website<\/a> still being up are good signs, but it sounds very iffy at best.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 16 November 2009<\/b>:  Open again!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/09\/11\/momo02.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/09\/11\/momo02_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 27 May 2014<\/b> -- <i>Momo's<\/i> is closed again, this time for good.  According to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.thestate.com\/2014\/05\/22\/3462131\/breakfast-is-devine-as-new-eggs.html\">The State<\/a>, an <i>Eggs Up Grill<\/i> will be opening there soon.  <i>Eggs Up<\/i> started in Litchfield Beach in the same building as <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8938\">Latte Litchfield<\/a> (and they originally shared ownership).  Currently their flagship store has moved to the old <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8604\">Piggly Wiggly<\/a> shopping center a bit north on US-17 and they have several other coastal locations for the breakfast and lunch concept.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140272.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140272_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140272_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140272_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140273.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140273_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140273_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140273_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140274.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140274_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140274_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140274_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140275.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140275_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140275_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140275_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140276.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140276_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140276_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140276_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140277.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140277_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140277_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140277_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140278.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140278_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140278_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140278_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140280.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140280_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140280_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140280_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140281.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140281_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140281_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140281_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140282.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/14\/05\/p1140282_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1140282_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1140282_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was at Za's and noticed that Momo's Bistro in the same strip was dark, so I went over to take a look and snap a few pictures (the flash worked better than I expected). After that, and a bit of googling around, I'm not entirely sure of the status of this place. The sign [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1482,111,861,3,184,1483],"class_list":["post-478","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-2930-devine-street","tag-devine-street","tag-on-devine","tag-restaurants","tag-shandon","tag-simms-avenue"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478","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=478"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/478\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=478"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=478"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=478"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}