{"id":277805,"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.media\/index\/277805","title":{"rendered":"[UPDATED] Depeaux closes, but will reopen on weekends"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_2339\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\" style=\"width: 310px\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-2339\" title=\"2341245143_7676993af4-w650-h400\" src=\"http:\/\/blogs.ajc.com\/food-and-more\/files\/2010\/02\/2341245143_7676993af4-w650-h400-300x225.jpg\" 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":4063,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-277805","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277805","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4063"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=277805"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/277805\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=277805"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=277805"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=277805"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}