Restaurants in Peace

November 15, 2023 7:13 AM

Restaurants in Peace is a simple website for memorializing your favorite, departed eateries. Scroll through the submittals so far or add your own. [via mefi projects]
posted by curious nu (33 comments total)

Nice! Atlanta is now represented (once they process the entry I just submitted).
posted by intermod at 7:25 AM on November 15, 2023 [1 favorite]

A friend and I both enjoy trying more ambitious restaurants and usually do a particular splurge during our joint birthday month. At our most recent, we were reflecting that the list of those restaurants that we've eaten at that are now closed is probably now longer than the list of those that are still open. We're getting old. NYC is a tough town.

Shout-out to the guy who mentioned Red Lobster, though. Those biscuits are good.
posted by praemunire at 7:28 AM on November 15, 2023 [2 favorites]

Hey all! Creator here. Thanks a lot for posting it!! Questions / comments - please share. I’ll do my best to not threadsit :) but will 10000% read everything.

Thanks again!!
posted by vert canard at 7:28 AM on November 15, 2023 [26 favorites]

Neat, just submitted one. In loving memory...
posted by chavenet at 7:35 AM on November 15, 2023

Went on and immediately found the one restaurant that I've been mourning! Amazing. Left a little comment.
posted by heyitsgogi at 7:38 AM on November 15, 2023

I just submitted a Seattle one, but Seattle isn't in the list yet; hopefully soon!
posted by ChrisR at 7:45 AM on November 15, 2023 [2 favorites]

Just submitted the late lamented Mama's Food Shop from the East Village, which was a block from a theater company I worked with a lot (we probably made up about 15% of its income).
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 7:50 AM on November 15, 2023

Just put Toronto in the queue. Excellent work, vert canard!
posted by the one second advantage at 7:57 AM on November 15, 2023 [1 favorite]

I love the site's name! Will have to submit a few remembrances later.
posted by May Kasahara at 7:57 AM on November 15, 2023

What a great idea! I just made a submission for a beloved haunt that closed back in 2011, and I know I will be making more entries later. It’s nice to know I’m not the only one who grieves for dearly departed restaurants.
posted by la glaneuse at 8:05 AM on November 15, 2023

They want a credit card to submit an entry? That’s… unexpected.

(RIP Fringale.)
posted by phliar at 8:05 AM on November 15, 2023

Yay! I got in early enough to post the first memory of Gullifty's. I have to expect there will be more.
posted by meinvt at 8:11 AM on November 15, 2023

Thanks for this. Restaurant turnover in New York is so brutal that I can't keep up. I'm in the middle of watching most of my neighborhood get knocked down, and the kids and I have made a little game of trying to get a memorial brick from every building they push over that we're going to miss. Right now there's a fence around the old site of Pig Beach but I keep an eye out for an open gate because there's still a bunch of bricks on the lot.

(vert, since you're at Recurse: around 2008-9 developers bought up everything on Willoughby Street and kicking everything out to build the megadevelopments that stand there now. There were a ton of restaurants there, including a pizza shop on the corner of Willoughby and Bridge where you'd get a slice through a window. I don't have any idea what it was called because everyone just called it Pizza Window. It was pretty awful but it was open late.)
posted by phooky at 8:15 AM on November 15, 2023 [1 favorite]

Hey @phliar, I defffffinitely am not asking for a credit card to submit an entry! Are you talking about the form on https://restaurants.rip/submit ?
posted by vert canard at 8:16 AM on November 15, 2023 [1 favorite]

(Just submitted a restaurant that closed after about two years after opening on the site of another similar restaurant that lasted about two years and realized that I wasn't sure for a minute which restaurant I'd eaten at.)
posted by phooky at 8:22 AM on November 15, 2023

Just represented Portland with a fantastic, sorely-missed deli.
posted by Greg_Ace at 8:40 AM on November 15, 2023 [3 favorites]

I'm intensely curious who the hell posted eight different McDonald's spots to the NYC section.
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 8:54 AM on November 15, 2023 [2 favorites]

Deli Haus, Boston, forever!
posted by stinker at 9:51 AM on November 15, 2023

Just put Toronto in the queue.

I regret that the interval between my first time eating at The Groaning Board and its closure was only five or six years. That said, it does say something striking about building repurposing that a decade or so before I first set foot in 129 Jarvis, it was the site of the recording of an iconic live album and a decade later it was the Consulate General of Indonesia.
posted by ricochet biscuit at 9:53 AM on November 15, 2023

i love this. looking forward to contributing my many lost diners. could there be a better navigation than prev/next for 45 pages of NYC? a drop down page picker or alphabet picker? change the number of items displayed? an auto complete search?
posted by kokaku at 10:01 AM on November 15, 2023 [3 favorites]

ould there be a better navigation than prev/next for 45 pages of NYC? a drop down page picker or alphabet picker? change the number of items displayed? an auto complete search?

Ooh, Dad, can we pleeeeeeeeeeeeez have this pony, I promise I will feed it and everything?
posted by EmpressCallipygos at 10:28 AM on November 15, 2023

Just submitted Tsampa, formerly on E. 9th Street in the East Village, NYC. Wonderful Tibetan restaurant. The momo! The Tse Tofu! Gone but not forgotten.
posted by saladin at 10:28 AM on November 15, 2023 [1 favorite]

I could not even find a closure notice for the restaurant I wanted to memorialize (Wellspring), so I just pasted the link to a review, hoping it suffices as proof that the place existed. But anyway, thank you developer. That let me scratch an itch I've had for a while now. The review was already sitting in my head, I just had to type it out.
posted by jabah at 11:35 AM on November 15, 2023

ah FFS this is how I find out Funkenhausen is gone? Rats.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 12:07 PM on November 15, 2023

However, please be advised the Purple Pig, despite being listed here, is absolutely NOT permanently closed! I literally just ate there two days ago lol and they have an entire Thanksgiving takeout menu available.
posted by We put our faith in Blast Hardcheese at 12:29 PM on November 15, 2023 [1 favorite]

Neat! A bug(?) report though: I tried to put two different links in website field, along with a few words of context, but that returned a 500 internal server error result. I had to move some of that into the remembrance field in order to get it to submit.

If that's working as intended, fine, but a better error message would be good.
posted by vibratory manner of working at 12:45 PM on November 15, 2023

man, this made me realize how much i stopped going out to eat after all the diners in philadelphia closed...miss the days of 24 hour affordable and filling food. RIP Melrose, Broad Street, and City Diner.
posted by donuy at 1:18 PM on November 15, 2023 [1 favorite]

I'm intensely curious who the hell posted eight different McDonald's spots to the NYC section.

The W. 3d St. McDonald's...IYKYK.
posted by praemunire at 1:22 PM on November 15, 2023

>I defffffinitely am not asking for a credit card to submit an entry!

Good to know! I just hit the obvious buttons and followed instructions, maybe I ended up in some weird membership thing. Fringale still has not made it to the San Francisco list so that's a definite possibility :(

Fringale was amazing, how I miss it. It was going great in both the internet booms so I thought it would be here forever... but COVID killed it.
posted by phliar at 1:53 PM on November 15, 2023

ah FFS this is how I find out Funkenhausen is gone? Rats.

I had that same feeling numerous times scrolling through the San Diego list.
posted by LionIndex at 2:45 PM on November 15, 2023 [1 favorite]

Welp, I've submitted Kornblatt's Deli of Portland, OR. I miss their Reubens.
posted by The Great Big Mulp at 4:52 PM on November 15, 2023

Heh, so did I! And for the same reason!
posted by Greg_Ace at 4:56 PM on November 15, 2023 [1 favorite]

LionIndex, a few of the San Diego listings may be specific location closures? Bangkok Spices Thai Restaurant was on El Cajon Blvd., and is now on 30th St. Hennessey's Tavern closed on Mission Blvd. but exists in La Jolla (on Herschel Ave.) and elsewhere. Or, other alterations: Harar Ethiopian Restaurant, in North Park, changed its name to GIHON and re-opens next month. The original El Camino, first in South Park and then on India Street, was bought two years ago and renamed Camino Rivera, "with SDCM owner Matt Spencer collaborating with El Camino founder Mauricio Couturier."
posted by Iris Gambol at 8:18 PM on November 15, 2023