Fake plant walls and fake neon word lights: Name a more iconic duo.
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…are those cheap Ikea chandeliers spray painted black?
Fake plants and ivy plague Raleigh. It drives me up a wall. Nothing makes a place look more cheaper.
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Idk but that’s definitely a $350 Wayfair couch.
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Much like ivy [characters]
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The “fern bar” lives on: Fern bar - Wikipedia
Another long time restaurant is closing today. Armadillo Grill in Glenwood South. I remember when it opened 22 years ago, and while we have other Tex mex that has surpassed it in quality, I still enjoyed stopping in every once in a while.
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Aw, I liked it as a quick burrito stop. Nothing special, but did the job. Hope the replacement is fun.
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I went in there 10 years ago and the service was laughably poor, the food mediocre, and the bathrooms gross. I took a picture and put it with my negative review. Glad I finally got em.
Kidding, but I don’t feel like this is a great loss. Seems more like a nostalgia act from early 2000s Raleigh that didn’t do anything to update with the times.
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Hope we get another food concept here vs another bar.
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I actually went here often enough since I work pretty close by. Steak burrito was my go-to, and pretty much the only thing I got. That said, there are a lot of places close by that I’d imagine they kept losing business to. Every time I went in around lunch time, it was noticeably slow compared to a lot of other places.
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This kind of restaurant isn’t for your kind. Appreciate AG for what it is, and it’s a treasure, and a loss IMO. I’m sad from afar.
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You mean local residents? 
You know the closed because they didn’t have your business anymore. That’s what was keeping them afloat. Sad.
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I just went last weekend! The Chicken Taco Dillo deal was my go-to! Many young nights after bar hoping spent in there!
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Man what a surprise, I just ate there a couple days ago, and not one employee mentioned anything. It’s a shame I can’t even eat there again.
I’ve been eating here roughly once a month for the past 20 years, and several times a week when I lived on Glenwood south. At one point they were open until 3am on the weekends.
Not everything needs to be Ruth Chris, and Amaradillo was exactly what I wanted for the price. The soft taco shells were made fresh for each order in their little rotating machine.
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Is a “soft taco shell” just a tortilla?
I hope the replacement is a new 20+ story tower, tbh. Prime location wasted with a 1-story building, these days.
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Correct, its this machine they use.
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Nothing should be Ruth’s Chris…
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The Carrboro one still exists if people ever get nostalgic. The food was mid but it was fast and cheap (if you ordered the right things) so there was a niche.
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