{"id":8107,"date":"2013-09-04T22:30:05","date_gmt":"2013-09-05T03:30:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8107"},"modified":"2013-09-08T22:38:42","modified_gmt":"2013-09-09T03:38:42","slug":"hullers-black-forest-german-american-restaurant-7713-saint-andrews-road-14-july-2013","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/?p=8107","title":{"rendered":"Huller\u2019s Black Forest German \u2013 American Restaurant, 7713 Saint  Andrews Road: 14 July 2013"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050440.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050440_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050440_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050440_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050442.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050442_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050442_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050442_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050445.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050445_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050445_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050445_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050446.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050446_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050446_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050446_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050447.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050447_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050447_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050447_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050448.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050448_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050448_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050448_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050449.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050449_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050449_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050449_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050450.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050450_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050450_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050450_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050452.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050452_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050452_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050452_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050453.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050453_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050453_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050453_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050454.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050454_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050454_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050454_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050455.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050455_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050455_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050455_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050456.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050456_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050456_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050456_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050459.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/13\/09\/p1050459_tn.jpg\" title=\"p1050459_tn.jpg\" alt=\"p1050459_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>I had no idea this little sunken plaza was there on Saint Andrews Road until I went looking for <i>Huller's<\/i> a few weeks ago.  It's quite a ways out, North of Lake Murray Boulevard, and I don't think I had ever been in the area before.<\/p>\n<p>Although <i>Huller's<\/i> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/pages\/Hullers-Black-Forest-German-Restaurant\/140859112616582?ref=ts\">announced their closing on Facebook back on 14 July 2013<\/a>, the place still looks like someone could fling the doors open any minute.  All the signs and menuboards are still up with the weekly specials still posted.  For that matter, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hullersonline.com\/\">main web site<\/a> is still available as well.<\/p>\n<p>I've been to Germany, but about all I recall about the food is the hotel breakfast had limp bacon and the one time we tried to break away from work and go to a real restaurant, the hostess stalked off in front of us leaving us to weave between tables until she had totally lost us.  We never saw her again, and ended up at a <i>Chi-Chis<\/i>, as I recall it..  So anyway, I was never moved to check out <i>Huller's<\/i> though I did like their I-26 billboard which was very much in the spirit of our old State Fair friend:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"..\/pix\/08\/10\/fair_night_141.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"..\/pix\/08\/10\/fair_night_141_tn.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>(Hat tip to commenter jason)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had no idea this little sunken plaza was there on Saint Andrews Road until I went looking for Huller's a few weeks ago. It's quite a ways out, North of Lake Murray Boulevard, and I don't think I had ever been in the area before. Although Huller's announced their closing on Facebook back on [&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":[1166,1083,198,3,177],"class_list":["post-8107","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","tag-7713-saint-andrews-road","tag-german","tag-irmo","tag-restaurants","tag-saint-andrews-road"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107","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=8107"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8107\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=8107"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=8107"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/columbiaclosings.com\/wordpress\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=8107"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}