Favorite closed restaurant/eatery?

[TrevorGruen]

Thought of this after making my favorite discontinued food/snack thread. Anyone ever had a restaraunt, whether it was a part of a chain or a single location, have you ever had a restaraunt you really liked just close? personally the only Arby's within 30 miles of me closed and it really sucked. No mor au jus dip!

 

[smearyllama]

Anita's Mexican Diner.
It had really good food, and since the one in Manassass closed, we have to go way out of our way to get delicious Mexican food.

 

[TheYellowCellPhone]

Mr. Hero.

Well, the restaurant chain itself isn't closed, but the local one was closed.

 

[eatenbyagrue]

There was this really awesome pancake place near my house I used to eat breakfast at all the time. I can't quite remember what their name was, but I remember they had a signature dish called the "Jackson 5"

It was 4 chocolate pancakes and 1 vanilla pancake.

And now I feel like a terrible human being.

 

[Phlakes]

There was this really awesome pancake place near my house I used to eat breakfast at all the time. I can't quite remember what their name was, but I remember they had a signature dish called the "Jackson 5"

It was 4 chocolate pancakes and 1 vanilla pancake.

And now I feel like a terrible human being.

That is amazing. It's a wonder they went out of business.

 

[eatenbyagrue]

There was this really awesome pancake place near my house I used to eat breakfast at all the time. I can't quite remember what their name was, but I remember they had a signature dish called the "Jackson 5"

It was 4 chocolate pancakes and 1 vanilla pancake.

And now I feel like a terrible human being.

That is amazing. It's a wonder they went out of business.

I can't tell if that was sarcastic or not. D:

 

[Phlakes]

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I can't tell if that was sarcastic or not. D:

It wasn't, but I had a feeling it would sound like it.

 

[ilspooner]

There was a great gelato store at the nearby shopping mall, but it closed down. It had such great gelato! D:

 

[Mekado]

Ponderosa was pretty awesome when i was a kid, shame they closed everything up here

 

[AvsJoe]

Tough call. Do I choose Quick Byte (formerly Fair Village Market) with their awesome dollar burgers? Do I choose Como's Pizza with their super greasy but super tasty pizza pies? Do I choose Brother's Pizza, a favourite of mine growing up? Do I choose King Cone with the best ice cream in my home town? Do I choose Casey's which had the greatest birthday deal ever?

...

I have no idea. I'm going to go with Como's Pizza because I miss Como. I have no idea what his real name was; we all just called him Como. I wonder what he's doing now.

 

[Semudara]

Asahi Kaiten. Best Japanese restaurant ever; it not only had a conveyor belt with little plates that you could just grab at will, but some really creative and brilliant dishes on the menu. I couldn't believe when it closed; I hate when a place's future has nothing to do with how good the food and service are.

A close runner-up would be Daruma. It was a delightful little Japanese market in Bethesda (Pocky and Ramune, anyone?), that also functioned as a surprisingly great restaurant. It was kind of tucked away though, and I think it just ran out of money. The world misses it, I think.

 

[New Troll]

Local, the Fuddrucker's here closed which sucked big time. It was so much better than any other one I've been to also.

Of all time, there was a little hole-in-the-wall oriental buffet called China Doll which had the absolute best egg rolls and the rest of thier food was really, really good. I even absolutely loved thier Egg Drop Soup which I usually don't go for. Even though this place wasn't local, my family would still make the trip there at least every other week. So good; so worth it!

 

[Nedoras]

Only one comes to mind but it didn't really close down for long. There was a pizza place called "Freddie's" near my house when I used to live in Chicago. My family knew the owner and I would always get discounts and stuff like that. The pizza was the best I have ever eaten and there were a few arcade machines in the place too (Galaga and one of the Samurai Showdown games). Sadly enough it closed down. A year later I moved to where I'm currently living. A few years after, a pizza place opened up a few blocks away called "Freddie's". I went there and found out it was the same place, it had the same owner. I couldn't believe it. I got to eat that kick ass pizza again, hell I just did the other day. True story ^_^

 

[voetballeeuw]

The local Cheeburger Cheeburger closed down. Manly tears were wept that day.