I walked in today and they have torn everything up, the shelves are all empty and then the guy kicked me out and locked the door behind me.

Anyone know if it's remodeling, or closed?

I <3 Laziz Biryani inside, their food is fantastic

12/27/2010 2:26:24 PM

I always wanted to try the food there :/

12/27/2010 2:57:52 PM

Laziz Biryani is moving to a different location, no word yet on Go Pack.

12/27/2010 10:19:48 PM

That place did have some bangin' Indian food, even if it seemed kind of sketch lol.

12/28/2010 9:13:29 AM

Might be turning into a Chipotle

http://www.gogoraleigh.com/2011/02/15/chipotle-coming-to-hillsborough-st/

2/15/2011 10:44:40 AM

Get the fuck out of town.

Chipotle?!?!

2/15/2011 11:04:09 AM

The landlord upped the rent $4k a month so they closed shop. He now runs the gas station at the corner of Old Stage Rd. and Ten Ten in South Raleigh/Garner. Nice guy, he remembered me even though I was far from a regular customer.

2/15/2011 11:30:26 AM

Go Pak

2/15/2011 11:47:25 AM

Looks like NCSU's going to need to start selling Chipoltaway.

2/15/2011 12:48:46 PM

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"He now runs the gas station at the corner of Old Stage Rd. and Ten Ten in South Raleigh/Garner."

that's near my parents. is he doing food inside like he did on hillsborough?

2/15/2011 6:43:54 PM

$4k/month on that road is laughable. shit fucking hole.

2/15/2011 6:47:37 PM

oh shit there goes eric's business plan

he was always saying chip. needed to be on hillsb.

2/15/2011 6:55:20 PM

^^^ that damn gas station is always over priced. only time i go there is when i need gas for the lawnmower and am too lazy to drive more than 2 miles from my house.

2/15/2011 7:10:08 PM

I ate their Indian food a couple times. It was good shit.

2/16/2011 7:42:41 AM

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"$4k/month on that road is laughable."

To clarify, the rent was not $4k a month; the landlord increased the rent by $4k. At the moment there is no restaurant and I was in a hurry so I didn't really have time to ask what he had planned for the rest. I'm pretty sure they are opening a salon where Stage Road Hairstyling was, which is ironic since Stage Road Hairstyling had to move due to increased rent.

[Edited on February 16, 2011 at 9:30 AM. Reason : .]

2/16/2011 9:28:58 AM

This sucks, I ate their all the time. Fucking landlord...

I also liked the guy who worked there, and found it very entertaining that he also moonlighted at at least one other place on Hillsborough (Dunkin Donuts).

2/16/2011 9:39:38 AM

The dude who run Go Pack was nice. He helped me remove a splinter from my finger once with some tweezers he was selling in his store.

I offered to buy the tweezers after he pulled the splinter out but he said "don't worry about it" and threw the tweezers back in the bucket

2/16/2011 9:49:41 AM

I had the older guy there once show me the proper way to eat Indian food. He just started picking up my bread, picking up pieces of meat, and trying to hand feed me. It was funny and creepy at the same time It's sad that they're closing down

2/16/2011 10:34:46 AM

i was about to say, $4k/month rent is very very cheap for that location, but it sounded like the guy upped the rent by $4k/month. I bet he's asking $8-10

2/16/2011 10:51:37 AM

oh, and Moe's > Chipotle >>>>>>> Qdoba

2/16/2011 10:52:36 AM

I recently discovered Tijuana Flats and have to say as far as quick texmex goes I think I prefer them now.

2/16/2011 10:56:24 AM

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"had the older guy there once show me the proper way to eat Indian food. He just started picking up my bread, picking up pieces of meat, and trying to hand feed me. It was funny and creepy at the same time"

Yeah the young guy did this to me first time I went in. "I had to learn to eat like you -- I will teach you how to eat like us!"

2/16/2011 2:20:05 PM

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"To clarify, the rent was not $4k a month; the landlord increased the rent by $4k."

That's a pretty blatant GTFO on Hillsborough St.

2/16/2011 2:22:50 PM

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"oh, and Moe's > Chipotle >>>>>>> Qdoba"

gross

2/16/2011 2:31:31 PM

chipotle is so good! i'd be down with that

2/19/2011 9:57:21 AM

^

2/19/2011 10:11:16 AM

I live on Chamberlain street, the bazaar was the easiest place to go for a quick beer or whatever. If a Chipotle is going there, that's cool, but probably bad for my health.

2/19/2011 10:59:52 AM

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"Yeah the young guy did this to me first time I went in. "I had to learn to eat like you -- I will teach you how to eat like us!" "

Ha

how did you naturally think to eat the food? I’d think when you see a flat bread-like thing and some meat in a sauce, you’d always just wrap the meat in the bread...

2/19/2011 12:50:42 PM

Eat meat with fork and dip bread in sauce?

2/19/2011 3:47:51 PM

http://www.bizjournals.com/triangle/news/2011/04/04/chipotle-to-open-hillsborough-street.html


in old Go Pack space.

4/4/2011 12:36:48 PM

Mystery solved!

4/4/2011 1:05:03 PM

chipotle >>>>>>> *

4/4/2011 9:13:34 PM

Thanks for the update! Anyone know when they're projecting for it to be open?

4/4/2011 10:35:19 PM

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"mid- to late summer"

4/5/2011 1:22:11 AM

This is horseshit, I was all about some Laziz Biryani. Ate there a couple of times a month, at least...the main guy and the lady behind the counter knew me by name. Clearly I should have upped my intake of Indian food to keep them afloat.

I've never had Chipotle and honestly their brutal annexation of one of my preferred near-campus eateries does not make me eager to start.

Quote :

"how did you naturally think to eat the food? I’d think when you see a flat bread-like thing and some meat in a sauce, you’d always just wrap the meat in the bread..."

I suppose he didn't actually go to the meat. Instead he did what I still do at Indian places to this day -- pour the vegetarian part over the rice and use the bread to pick up a mixture of rice and whatever (probably chickpeas of some sort, haha). I ate the meat separately.

Back when I used to take Lent really seriously and abstained from meat and dairy, I probably went there a couple of times a week and followed this procedure to make my vegetarian diet palatable.

4/5/2011 2:27:03 AM

I don't think it was a matter of not making enough money. It was an issue they had with the owner of the property. I actually have pretty direct information on the situation. The $4k increase per month was basically a big, "Fuck you." I'm sure Chipotle is going to pay more than GoPaks was paying but not that price. To be honest, it's actually going to end up costing the property owner more in the long run.

4/5/2011 2:34:11 AM

i heard the same thing from a few people, that some entity connected to jimmy john's bought the building a few years ago and the rent was jacked up to astronomical levels to make gopaks GTFO and make room for chipotle

but the folks who ran gopaks now run a much larger store at the corner of ten ten and old stage if i recall correctly, i haven't been there though

this was all covered in some thread about a month ago

4/5/2011 9:47:53 AM

It had to do with homeless people, I think. GoPaks was always selling them alcohol and whatnot. The bums haven't been eradicated but it has gotten better.

4/5/2011 5:54:23 PM

I look forward to blowing up toilets in Harrelson after lunch.

4/5/2011 7:13:54 PM

I think that place is for sale for $125k. I was looking for houses in 27607 and it was listed for sale.


http://www.homes.com/listing/131896687/2316_Hillsborough_St_100_RALEIGH_NC_27607


[Edited on April 5, 2011 at 8:10 PM. Reason : LOL just the business is included in that price, enjoy the rent.]

4/5/2011 8:07:41 PM

AFAIK, pretty much every business that is just breaking even is listed for sale online in the hopes that some idiot with $125k in the bank will suddenly decide that he wants to abandon his successful career and instead run a convenient store that also sells indian food (or was it pakistani?).

Fun fact: the original plot of Wall Street involved just such a hostile takeover of a convenient store/ethnic to go restaurant.

4/6/2011 4:24:56 PM

Chipotle burrito bowls ftw

4/6/2011 4:31:06 PM

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"i was about to say, $4k/month rent is very very cheap for that location, but it sounded like the guy upped the rent by $4k/month. I bet he's asking $8-10"

A couple of points.

I know the statement was that there was an increase in the rent (or would-be future rent). But speaking in terms of the value itself, no way in the holy name of mathematics was a place like that pulling in anywhere near enough to support a base rent of $4k a month. What was that, like a 300% increase? Good God. They had dust on their merchandise and products that looked old as dirt, and their lunch client base was pathetically small - they couldn't even have had the seating to serve enough customers to turn a profit. I recognize that they might have gotten a lot from alcohol sales, but I'm not buying that either, I simply can't comprehend that being near enough volume and margin...

Quote :

"I think that place is for sale for $125k. I was looking for houses in 27607 and it was listed for sale."

Anything in the neighborhood of $4k/month rent on a $125k property sounds pretty bogus.

4/6/2011 4:54:12 PM

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"I look forward to blowing up toilets in Harrelson after lunch."

THIS

4/6/2011 5:02:24 PM

I don't know how you guys can take a dump in Harrelson, just taking a leak in those bathrooms makes me feel dirty

[Edited on April 6, 2011 at 5:36 PM. Reason : and I am by no means a germaphobe]

4/6/2011 5:35:57 PM

Last time I went in there I was thinking about how nice the granite bathroom stall dividers are. Then I was wondering if I'd be able to salvage them before they tore down the building.

Then I threw up in my mouth a little bit thinking about using one as a kitchen counter and forgot about the whole idea.

4/6/2011 8:18:24 PM

LMAOOOOO

That whole post. Omg.

4/6/2011 8:45:24 PM