Adios, LaFuente

The_Architect

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Still miss O'Malleys. Great, dark restaurant. Loved the Alcoholicos Anonymos print they had about the tapped beer.
Loved getting a fried egg on top of some of their specialties.

Don't forget all the servers were sorority girls.
 

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I totally missed this news/thread. :(

I was at ISU 2001-2005 and went to La Fuente many times. I thought it'd been there longer, though.
 

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I think, for anyone who went to college in the late 90s/early 00s, La Fuente HAS to be integral to some of your memories. I had my 23rd birthday there, and also had my bachelorette party meal there (so we could start off with a fishbowl margarita).

I have only one La Fuente memory. I was "sort of" seeing this girl and we went to dinner there. Dinner and a few drinks, and then she dropped me off at Dean's List for Friday night with the crew. After an hour or two, her actual boyfriend showed up at Dean's List for a quick chat with me. It wasn't pleasant, but there were no injuries.
 

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I have only one La Fuente memory. I was "sort of" seeing this girl and we went to dinner there. Dinner and a few drinks, and then she dropped me off at Dean's List for Friday night with the crew. After an hour or two, her actual boyfriend showed up at Dean's List for a quick chat with me. It wasn't pleasant, but there were no injuries.

Yikes. That's ROUGH. Hopefully he got bounced before things got bad.
 

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Ate there once. Place had a bad smell due to wet carpet. Next tenants really need to just gut the place and start fresh.
 

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This bump is opening up bad wounds. Miss La Fuente, even though El Azteca is much better.

Every college kid should have experienced the Margarita Challenge.
 

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I love gyros with a passion, so I hope they're great! They sound determined and creative.

I also hope they can fix it so that the basement doesn't constantly smell overwhelmingly of urine, like it did at Fuente. If so, I think they've got a great idea!
 

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I love gyros with a passion, so I hope they're great! They sound determined and creative.

I also hope they can fix it so that the basement doesn't constantly smell overwhelmingly of urine, like it did at Fuente. If so, I think they've got a great idea!

Not having a double monster margarita challenge should help with this
 
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