A Columbia-area Lizard’s Thicket restaurant is temporarily closed. What to know
A restaurant that is well-known for country cooking has temporarily closed one of its locations for renovations.
Lizard’s Thicket, which has a number of restaurants across the Midlands, has temporarily closed its location at 3147 Forest Drive in Forest Acres near Columbia. The company said in a post on Facebook that the closure would begin on Monday, May 11, and advised customers to keep an eye on the Lizard’s Thicket social media for renovation updates.
A Lizard’s Thicket spokesperson told The State Monday that the construction could last for about two months, and that the Forest Drive location would be getting a full renovation much in the same way the company’s Main Street Lexington location was revitalized a year ago.
Lizard’s Thicket is a nearly 50-year tradition in the Midlands, with more than a dozen locations spread across the greater Columbia and Lexington areas. The restaurants offer breakfast, lunch and dinner and are particularly known for their “meat-and-three” country cooking plates with selections including fried chicken, pork chops, catfish, macaroni and cheese, collards, candied yams, black-eyed peas and much more.
The Forest Acres Lizard’s Thicket is in a bustling, high-traffic area just west of West Beltline Boulevard. About 20,000 cars per day travel down that section of Forest Drive, per SC Department of Transportation data.
This story was originally published May 11, 2026 at 11:04 AM.
