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Several news outlets reported today that your last chance to get a meal at the Capital City Diner comes this Sunday. With the opening of a new Denny's a stone's throw away coupled with the diner's ongoing struggles in a marginal neighborhood, co-owner Matt Ashburn finally rests the spatula.
As many already know, Matt and former partner Patrick Carl bought the Avoca, New York Silk City diner on eBay at an inflated price of $20,000, and immediately stumbled into and through repeated hurdles establishing their business in a dicey part of town.
Now called El Cortijo, which I believe is Spanish for "I hate diners." (Photo by Michael Rosol)
When Stratton Lines purchased and installed his new Mountain View diner in downtown Burlington, Vermont in 1954, he called it the Oasis. Just the name makes one think of a warm and welcoming respite from the long Vermont winters. Inside, one might expect to find hot and hearty comfort foods served by people with no greater concern than their customer's satisfaction. After all, Stratty went the extra mile and purchased a real American diner, no small accomplishment in any period of our twentieth-century history.
Looks like we have another Lou-Roc in the making. Sadly, you'll find few diners out there as original as the former Oasis Diner. Except for the chunk of counter removed by the last owners, the diner where Bill Clinton sipped tea with the city's mayor. And now, somone else who doesn't want a diner bought one of the most orginal out there and will proceed to rip it up for their own ephemeral concept. If you care, please write to these people and plead with them not to do this.
POSTED BY CORIN HIRSCH

Burlingtonians wondering about the fate of the shuttered Sadie Katz Delicatessen space might find some comfort in what's coming on its heels — that is, if they can switch their allegiance from latkes to tacos.
El Cortijo Taquería y Cantina will open in the same space sometime this winter — bar, take-out window, NECI-trained chef and all.
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