You wouldn’t expect a restaurant review to be controversial, but when The Lost Ogle published my nostalgia-filed take of the long-suffering Mexican buffet chain Pancho’s lone Metro location, battlelines were drawn, with one-half of the readership fondly remembering the eatery from their youth and eager to try it again, and the other a bunch of low-rent contrary Bourdainabes who likened the buffet’s cuisine to committing acts of coprophagia.
When I heard the news this weekend that they had shuttered their doors for good, I was left in a bit of shock. Calling their office line to confirm was no help, but this post on their Facebook page pretty much summed everything up: