jmcquown wrote:
>
> Are there any food places you particularly miss? Either because you moved
> or they closed? Like the 2nd Ave. Deli nearly disappeared.
>
> For me it's Buntyns in Memphis. The original Buntyns was on Southern
> Avenue. It was a real old-style diner, what with the round red vinyl and
> chrome twirly "barstools" at the counter and pies and cakes in the glass
> front cabinet. Homemade rolls that melted in your mouth and screamed
> BUTTER! The best fried chicken and they did those battered quarter-fries, I
> think. And the vegetables weren't out of a can, but this wasn't the place
> to go if you expected steamed broccoli. Squash casserole, perhaps. There
> was always a line out the door at lunch time. No parking to speak of. And
> a hardware/feed store next door with dusty windows.


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Dozens and dozens. Mostly because of my having moved around; others
because they changed ownership or closed.
Hardly even know the names of most of them...just the place on *that*
corner or down that street.

Two stand out though, both closed.

The 'Tea Rooms' Drury Lane, Bloomsbury in London:
http://www.flickr.com/photos/estherase/51248209/

This was taken (not by me) several years after it closed...used to look
much nicer. Could occasionally run into theatre types there while having
lunch.

Rogg's kosher deli in Cannon Street Road, just down the street from me:

http://www.oliviatemple.com/articles/simply_best.html

His children didn't want to take over the business and now the entire
building has been razed.