{"id":7900,"date":"2013-06-21T01:38:38","date_gmt":"2013-06-21T06:38:38","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7900"},"modified":"2025-02-10T23:48:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-11T04:48:42","slug":"waffle-house-4505-broad-river-road-june-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=7900","title":{"rendered":"Waffle House, 4505 Broad River Road: June 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030431.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030431_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030432.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030432_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030433.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030433_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030434.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030434_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030435.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030435_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030436.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030436_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030437.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030437_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030438.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030438_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030439.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030439_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030441.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030441_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030442.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030442_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030443.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030443_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030444.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030444_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030445.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030445_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030464.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/06\/p1030464_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Are there any driving directions less useful than: \"Take the exit with the Waffle House\"?<\/p>\n<p>Anyway, you don't see <i>Waffle Houses<\/i> closing too often, though I do have <a href=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=5100\">the one from Bush River Road<\/a> here.  On the one hand, I would have thought the closeness of this <i>Waffle House<\/i> to <b>SLED<\/b> would have guaranteed it a steady late-night business.  On the other hand, the site is not like their usual Interstate exit locations.<\/p>\n<p>Personally I like the fact that <i>Waffle House<\/i> never went to \"Belgian\" waffles, which seem to be the rage elsewhere now.  I like a lot of litle holes for syrup rather than a smaller number of larger holes.  And yes, that is the kind of thing you think about in a <i>Waffle House<\/i> booth at 3am.<\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter Johnathan)<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 5 January 2022<\/b>: Adding map icon and updating tags.<\/p>\n<p><b>UPDATE 10 February 2025<\/b> -- Now <i>King Smoke & Vape<\/i>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030312.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/25\/02\/p2030312_tn.jpg\" title=\"p2030312_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p2030312_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/maps\/place\/4505+Broad+River+Rd,+Columbia,+SC+29210\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/pix\/misc\/world_map_icon.png\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Are there any driving directions less useful than: \"Take the exit with the Waffle House\"? Anyway, you don't see Waffle Houses closing too often, though I do have the one from Bush River Road here. On the one hand, I would have thought the closeness of this Waffle House to SLED would have guaranteed it [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1707],"tags":[1124,45,1126,1125,3,3419,780],"class_list":["post-7900","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-closing","tag-4505-broad-river-road","tag-broad-river-road","tag-newnham-drive","tag-pancakes","tag-restaurants","tag-waffle-house","tag-waffles"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900","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=7900"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7900\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=7900"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=7900"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=7900"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}