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Show HN: Restaurants in Peace – leave a remembrance for a closed restaurant

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Re: Show HN: Restaurants in Peace – leave a remembrance for a closed restaurant

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Forbes Island is on there. I miss that place so much. https://restaurants.rip/r/forbes-island-restaurant-pier-san-...

Bug report: I tried to submit a remembrance there but this page it sent me to returned a 404:

https://restaurants.rip/r/forbes-island-restaurant-pier-san-...

Update: I force refreshed the original page and submitted again and it worked.

Re: Show HN: Restaurants in Peace – leave a remembrance for a closed restaurant

#23

RIP East Coast Grill & Border Cafe.

Suburban versions of restaurants in town are never really the same, but you might enjoy the Border Cafe in Burlington more than you expect.

I haven't found anything like the East Coast Grill, though.

Re: Show HN: Restaurants in Peace – leave a remembrance for a closed restaurant

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post #21

Forbes Island is on there. I miss that place so much. https://restaurants.rip/r/forbes-island-restaurant-pier-san-... Bug report: I tried to submit a remembrance there but this page it sent me to returned a 404: https://restaurants.rip/r/forbes-island-restaurant-pier-san-... Update: I force refreshed the original page and submitted again and it worked.

Thanks, Simon! And apologies re: 404, I just switched around the POST url route (in the Django project) :-) probably just as you were submitting.

Re: Show HN: Restaurants in Peace – leave a remembrance for a closed restaurant

#25

Would be nice to list college campuses. At NJIT there were a few food trucks. The best one in my opinion was a blueish truck with an old lady on the side. Had amazing food and great prices. The guy who ran the truck also loved to talk to people. He was going through a rough patch and mentioned that he was loosing money. Didn't want to raise prices but it was becoming too expensive to run. Closed after my freshman yea…

NJIT had some cool grease trucks. I remember going there for a gaming minicon once and the lunch was much better than anything I could have expected. I went to MSU, so I wasn't as close to it as some; but I remember the food.

Re: Show HN: Restaurants in Peace – leave a remembrance for a closed restaurant

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post #6

When a restaurant closes that is functionally identical to every other franchisee, like an Applebees, Olive Garden, Burger King, etc., it doesn't need a remembrance because you can just go to a different one. Like, if there are twelve identical clones of you when die, is it really an occasion for mourning?

I know of a small single-state chain of pizza restaurants with unique whole wheat crust unlike any other I’ve had, and I’ve looked. I’ve tried to recreate it at home, haven’t gotten terribly close. The chain only lasted about 15 years. I don’t know of any place that makes a substitute for what they made.

I do know a place that makes pizza pretty close to an early 90s Pizza Hut pie. It’s like $20+ a pizza, because that’s what early 90s Pizza Hut would cost if they hadn’t been cutting quality to keep the the price relatively stable, for the last two-plus decades. So that’s nice.

Re: Show HN: Restaurants in Peace – leave a remembrance for a closed restaurant

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post #2

We need an internet archive but for Google Maps.

It would be cool to have a feature like that, similar to how you could see previous years in Street View. Closed restaurants are preserved on Yelp, maybe there might be a way to extract that somehow and put it on OpenStreetMaps…
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