{"id":7256,"date":"2013-01-23T00:28:41","date_gmt":"2013-01-23T05:28:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7256"},"modified":"2013-10-16T21:16:09","modified_gmt":"2013-10-17T02:16:09","slug":"mezza-lebanese-bistro-hookah-lounge-110-gervais-street-24-december-2012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7256","title":{"rendered":"Mezza Lebanese Bistro &amp; Hookah Lounge, 110 Gervais Street: 24 December 2012"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160138.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160138_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160138_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160138_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160136.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160136_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160136_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160136_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160137.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160137_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160137_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160137_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160139.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160139_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160139_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160139_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160141.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160141_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160141_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160141_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160142.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160142_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160142_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160142_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160144.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160144_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160144_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160144_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160145.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160145_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160145_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160145_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160147.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160147_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160147_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160147_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160149.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/01\/p1160149_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1160149_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1160149_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I like some Lebanese food quite well, but I never got around to trying <i>Mezza<\/i> perhaps partly because of the location and partly because of the <i>Hookah Lounge<\/i> aspect, which I was afraid might put me in a smoking section, something I have less and less tolerance for as the years go on.<\/p>\n<p>At any rate, that's not an option anymore as they closed up shop on Christmas Eve and the place's <a href=\"http:\/\/mezzavista.com\/\">site<\/a> proclaims that the space has already been sold.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Justin)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 16 October 2013<\/b> -- It's now open as <i>Le Peep<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1070455.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/10\/p1070455_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1070455_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1070455_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I like some Lebanese food quite well, but I never got around to trying Mezza perhaps partly because of the location and partly because of the Hookah Lounge aspect, which I was afraid might put me in a smoking section, something I have less and less tolerance for as the years go on. At any [&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":[256,67,348,3,195],"class_list":["post-7256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-congaree-vista","tag-gervais-street","tag-lebanese","tag-restaurants","tag-vista"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256","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=7256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7256\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}