Reykjavík Grapevine - 04.12.2015, Side 55

FOOD
WE WILL MISS YOU, ASÍA <3
EULOGY FOR ASÍA
(THE RESTAURANT,
NOT THE CONTINENT)
After 27 years in business, the owners of pan-
Asian take away joint Asía are closing their
doors for good. The owners expressed their
thanks to their regulars but were not willing to
disclose what would come next for them or
what business might take over the premises.
Oh, Asia. RIP. I hardly knew ya. Mostly
because sometimes I'd get sick after
eating inside of you. But I still have a
soft spot for you. And those busloads
of Chinese tourists sure loved your
stuff (they are a mysterious people).
Your lunch buffet wasn't always edible.
But it was always there. And that was
pretty cool.
We didn't always get along. But
some of us thought you did a good job
and kinda liked you. You could have
avoided those nasty reviews, if only
you had sold me that bottle of cobra
wine instead of refusing for health and
safety reasons. Then I would have died
from cobra stuff and you would have
been free to do your own thing. Thanks
for resisting that urge. I know I can be
pretty hard to live with.
With the downtown restaurant
rotation the way it is, it's always sad
to see a longstanding restaurant go.
And I really do wish the owners all
the best and hope they go on to bigger
and brighter things. Maybe they could
open an amusement park. It would be
an ironic twist on the carousel crack in
my review.
I get it. Running a restaurant is no
picnic (mostly because picnics are out-
side, inside wicker picnic baskets and
not inside yellow houses with those
familiar, green palm trees). I appreci-
ate the effort. I really do.
Tell you what, I dabble in the oc-
cult and I'll put a hex on the location
so that if anyone tries to open a puffin
store there, the plush puffins will come
alive like in Five Nights at Freddy and
eat the staff. Just, you know. So down-
town won't get suckier.
We def don’t need a suckier down-
town. RIP Asia.
- Ragnar Egilsson
Hverfisgata 12 · 101 Reykjavík
Tel. +354 552 15 22 · www.dillrestaurant.is
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