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Want to grab a table at USC’s rotating Top of Carolina restaurant? You’ll have to wait a few years.
COLUMBIA — Those looking to to dine with a bird's eye view of the University of South Carolina will have to wait a bit. The university's Top of Carolina restaurant is not currently being used for regular dining service, being utilized for special events through April 2028. Then in May, it will close for renovations that are anticipated to take about three years to complete, according to Associate Vice President for University Communications Jeff Stensland.
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A breakfast restaurant chain has closed a Columbia-area location. Here's where
A restaurant known for biscuits and breakfast has closed its doors at a location in a suburb near Columbia. Biscuitville, a regional restaurant chain with locations in nearby states, has shuttered its restaurant at 10605 Broad River Road in Irmo. The restaurant is listed as “permanently closed” on the Biscuitville website. All of the Biscuitville signage had been removed from the building and the roadside when a reporter went by on Thursday. The Irmo Biscuitville initially opened in March 2025 . The breakfast chain also closed a location at 7924 Garners Ferry Road in Columbia in July 2025 . The company’s location on Clemson Road in northeast Columbia remains open. The first Biscuitville store opened in 1975 in Danville, Virginia, per Biscuitville’s website . By the late 1970s there were eight locations open, including in North Carolina. The company now has more than 70 locations in Virginia, North Carolina and South Carolina. In 2022, it opened a 78,000-square-foot distribution center in Burlington, N.C. The menu at Biscuitville features, naturally, a number of breakfast biscuit sandwiches , as well as English muffin sandwiches, sides such as hash browns and more.
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Soda City Market regular closes brick-and-mortar, will return to its hometown. What we know.
COLUMBIA — A fixture at Columbia’s popular Saturday market on Main Street is closing its northeast Columbia brick-and-mortar. But it isn’t going anywhere, and the business plans to still make its weekly appearances at Soda City Market. The Donut Guy, owned by the husband-and-wife team of Shaun and Crystal Paulk, announced via social media that it has closed its storefront in the Village at Sandhill outdoor mall, and will be returning to its initial home in Winnsboro — which sits a county away up Interstate 77. The plan is to reopen the Donut Guy storefront they had there before opening in Sand...
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From chicken spots to corner stores, these Columbia places announced closures
Columbia-area business closures seem to be piling up this fall. Several longtime and well-known Columbia-area businesses have either closed or announced coming closures in recent weeks, from a national chicken chain to a decades-old dairy bar. This is a quick look at what’s bidding farewell. Here are key takeaways: A third Slim Chickens location in the Columbia area has shut down, this one at 7544 Garners Ferry Road , with the chain’s Beltline Boulevard and Killian Road spots having already closed earlier this year. Slim Chickens said in a statement that it remains “open to opportunities to bring Slim Chickens back to the market in the future,” leaving three South Carolina restaurants in Florence, Moncks Corner and Myrtle Beach. Express Mart, a convenience store at the southeast corner of Washington and Assembly streets, has permanently closed in downtown Columbia , with handwritten signs posted on the doors thanking customers. The building where the Express Mart was located, along with the adjoining 1136 Washington St., is slated to be redeveloped into a 4-star hotel by Orlando-based Kessler Enterprise, Inc . Rosewood Dairy Bar at 3003 Rosewood Drive, open since 1942, announced it plans to close by the end of November, citing
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You Can Eat Dinner Inside This 1904 Town Hall And Jail In South Carolina
Somewhere in South Carolina, there’s a building that used to lock people up, and now people can’t wait to get inside it. The Olde Town Hall Restaurant & Pub in Ridgeway, South Carolina is the kind of place that makes you wonder why you’ve been driving past small towns your whole life without stopping.
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DAY 9: State fair rides and french fries
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Bakery, cafe in downtown Aiken reaches the end of the line
AIKEN — Breakfast, lunch, coffee and pastries no longer are available at the Bottom Line Bakery & Café. The downtown eatery closed for good Oct. 17. It was located at 148 Laurens St. S.W. Owner Kelsey Lucius explained why she was planning to shut down Bottom Line in...