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To piggy back on the Raleigh Restaurant Closings thread...I've been in Raleigh since 1982. Here are a few that are no longer around that I miss the most. Some of them, it's the owners I miss. Sometimes it's the food. Sometimes a mix of both. Here are the ones, though, that I truly wish were still around:
Su Casa...Crabtree Valley Mall. Great people. Good food at a reasonable price. Joe Crow Margarita. Done
Darryl's - Awesome menu.
Fat Daddy's. Good place for a very good burger. The way I want it.
18 Seaboard...I know they haven't technically closed yet, but I like Jason a lot, and I am/was crazy about his food. I know he's still gonna be around, but still.....
Clyde Cooper's Barbecue (The old location)
Allen & Son Barbecue on Hwy. 86. Nobody ever worked harder than Keith Allen at getting it right. Every. Day.
Crowley's - A hidden gem.
Su Casa - Never went so I can't comment
Darryl's - Great decor, loved it
Fat Daddy's - meh, As time went on, they seemed to make burgers with more and more bread and smaller meat portions
18 Seaboard - I will certainly miss it. Have eaten there for a number of years and always had good food and service
Allen and Son - another meh. I wasn't all that impressed
Crowley's - Boy do I miss that place. Loved the "Not So Cajun Chicken."
Other places I miss:
Solomon's - all three locations
Villa Capri - was in Ridgewood Shopping Center, then morphed into Casa Carbonne at Oak Park. I just don't care for it.
Mandarin House - in Cameron Village
The Upstairs - a deli in DT Raleigh for many years
Finch's - on Peace Street, gone but not forgotten.
Bonne Soiree. Chip Smith and Tina Vaughn are absolutely firing on all cylinders at their Upper East Side restaurant The Simone in NYC, and imo Bonne Soiree was the best restaurant to ever grace the Triangle, along with . . .
The two Tripps locations (Garner and Raleigh) franchised by Battleground Restaurants (related to Kickback Jack's, which is too noisy for me), and the Bellini Italian restaurant in Fuquay Varina ...
There was an italian restaurant I went to as a kid but I don't remember exactly what its name was. I want to say it was called Giluigi's or G Luigi's... it was in North Raleigh and I ride by it from time to time and miss it.
I also miss Wildflour's SO much!!!!
And also the old Pizza Inn in north raleigh that is now a Sherwin-Williams.
O. T.'s BBQ on NC55 in Apex. Unpretentious, inexpensive, genuine. Pig smoked on site. The building is now home to Daniel's Restaurant.
That reminds me of another great lunch place we would hit, from RTP. Can't remember the name, but it was one of the few seafood places near RTP, down Hwy 54, a mile or two (or three) past intersection with Hwy 55. They would bring a basket of wonderful, hot hush puppies as soon as you sat down.
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