Chucks would change but Beasley’s never has from what I can tell.
The Royal India buffet is the best damn food anywhere I tell you and a core of us loyalists (a few hundred regulars I’d guess) know it and make sure they never rethink it.
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Golden Corral is a local company and earlier this year announced plans to move their HQ to a new building in west Raleigh.
They are going to have to make major adjustments to their restaurant setup. Maybe some type of cafeteria setup, bc i don’t see how a buffet is going to work.
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Linus and Pepper’s and Virgil’s Original Taqueria will also close permanently.
I will miss the potato salad from Linus and Pepper’s, it was one of the best.
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Ugh. My top taco spot. That’s too bad. 
https://www.instagram.com/p/CAGwzylHFMu/?igshid=1u5aoaxb78ful
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Someone’s gonna have that white Lamborghini repossessed…
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Very sorry to hear this. I think Linus and Peppers has (had) some of the best sandwiches in town.
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Agreed. And reasonably priced for being that good too.
That’s not Jon’s. That’s the owner of Alchemy, Dan.
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Last few times I had virgil’s, my tacos were cold, so I stopped going. That said, it was damn good the other times I had it prior, and was one of the few late-night dining options for a while. What I miss most is Level Up - that was my go-to arcade spot, they had GREAT pinball options, the ability to order food from downstairs, and was never busy - especially when compared to Boxcar. The “never busy” part was obviously not such a positive on their end.
Yeah too bad that spot of cool stuff is now gone. I blame it on the lack of housing nearby. That area is a dead zone until all the new construction gets built.
Obviously as a Mexican-American I have my opinions about tacos but seems like most people like them. I’m so scared to take out a business loan but Raleigh needs tacos more than ever.
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Jon was working on a new speakeasy concept going into the LevelUp space that I am very excited for. Not sure if that’s on the back burner now, but he was mid-construction on it last I talked to him about it (3 months ago). I’ll check back with him and see if that’s a property he’s keeping in this whole mess.
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I can’t be as excited if it’s just a bar. The Level Up concept had something to do while you were enjoying a drink. Plain-old bars are a dime a dozen here. Is there more to his concept besides “drinks, but expensive!” ? 
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Looks like the Pour House will be the first music venue to open and hold a concert on June 12th. The owner says there will be a limit to the number of people inside and that guests will have to wear face masks.
This has clearly been thought out in great detail.
I couldn’t image a better way to make contact with my face a couple dozen times each time I have to remove my mask just to drink a beer. Especially after exchanging cash at the door, touching any of the railings or door knobs, and handling your card back and forth at the bar.
In other words, hold concerts but forget the mask rule.
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Really good read on how the virus spreads and why Pour House opening up is probably one of the worst ideas possible.
Hold the concert in Moore Square, or Dix Park or anywhere outside. This is almost guaranteed to be a disaster and we’ll hear about tracing back to the June 12th concert at Pour House.
Bur seriously, read this article. It takes a minute but really well thought out and articulated.
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You couldn’t pay me enough to go stand in a crowded music venue in a few weeks, masks or not.
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Fair, but I’ve felt that exact same way for at least 30 years! Crowded, loud, drunks . . . unless they are all there to see me, I am not going, masks or no.
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I have a scheduled show June 28th at PoHo. IMO no one knows enough about COVID and the information us plebians are receiving is too politicized to trust. Again IMO, I think holding a reduced capacity concert is OK at this point and we will just have to decide as individuals whether that’s something we want to be a part of or not. We’re not going to stop this virus from moving through the population, unless we literally shut all businesses down and all move out into the country and grow our own food and don’t go to the doctor, and…it’s just not possible.
The initial projections for flattening the curve did not ever suggest that we were going to significantly reduce the number of people to catch the virus. All it suggested was that we were going to reduce the surge, and IMO (my wife is a nurse at Duke) we have not and will not see the deadly spike that Milan and NYC saw.
So I’ll be playing a reduced capacity show at PoHo 6/28. Not so for my own promotion, but for the music scene, Adam and the staff at PoHo, and the cultural fabric of Raleigh that is so near and dear. It hurts that Virgil’s/Linus and Peppers is gone, and it will hurt 10x more if we lose an establishment like PoHo, in an environment where we only have a handful of small music venues left in this city.
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Yes, I have read that entire article and have already been aware of every fact he presents. I’m not going to argue or post a dozen different articles that dispute the use of masks, but let’s look at neighboring states for examples, since hypothetical data is less useful than real time data. Georgia opened 3 weeks ago this Friday to gyms, barber shops, hair salons, tattoo parlors and bowling alleys, Monday to restaurants. With the max transmission day being 14 days, they are well past that. Here are their current numbers:
- There have been 6,227 total patients hospitalized in Georgia during the pandemic, according to the Department of Public Health’s cumulative total. Over the last 14 days, the average daily increase in new patients was 94.71. Over the previous 14-day period, the average daily increase in new patients was 118.86. (Going down)
- The Georgia Emergency Management Agency began reporting current statewide hospitalizations on May 1. That day they reported 1,500 current hospitalizations. By the most recent report on May 11, there were 1,133 current hospitalizations. (Going down)
- The same situation can be found in Oklahoma with a similar time-frame, other states do not have enough time under their belt to determine beyond the 14 days so I did not use them as examples yet.
I’ll just say this with regards to modeling and predictions, there have been more people wrong with modeling and predictions than have been correct…
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That’s what straws are for…
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