{"id":654915,"date":"2010-02-04T08:06:29","date_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:06:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/?p=2338"},"modified":"2010-02-04T08:06:29","modified_gmt":"2010-02-04T13:06:29","slug":"updated-depeaux-closes-but-will-reopen-on-weekends","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/654915","title":{"rendered":"[UPDATED] Depeaux closes, but will reopen on weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2339\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2339\" title=\"2341245143_7676993af4-w650-h400\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/2341245143_7676993af4-w650-h400-300x225.jpg?resize=300%2C225\" alt=\"Courtesy of the Shumacher Group\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" \/><\/p>\n<p class=\"wp-caption-text\">Courtesy of the Shumacher Group<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The Decatur Metro blog<a href=\"http:\/\/www.decaturmetro.com\/2010\/02\/03\/the-depeaux-closes\/\"> is reporting<\/a> that <strong>Depeaux<\/strong> in Decatur has closed. This Cajun restaurant reportedly spent around $1 million refurbishing the town&#8217;s historic train depot. The building had to be moved away from the tracks.<\/p>\n<p>I tried &#8212; really tried &#8212; to like this place, but I gave up after a third or fourth visit where the food or the service or both left a questionable taste. I remember one order of red beans and rice that was so beyond salty it was funny. Still, it was nice to see some care lavished on this iconic, long-empty building.<\/p>\n<p><strong>UPDATE: <\/strong>According to Decatur Metro, owner Bill Sharkey says he will keep the restaurant open on weekends only.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Courtesy of the Shumacher Group The Decatur Metro blog is reporting that Depeaux in Decatur has closed. This Cajun restaurant reportedly spent around $1 million refurbishing the town&#8217;s historic train depot. The building had to be moved away from the tracks. I tried &#8212; really tried &#8212; to like this place, but I gave up [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2574,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[4821],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-654915","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9NivD-2Kn9","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654915","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2574"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654915"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654915\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654915"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654915"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.com\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654915"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}