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Esmerelda, the "-ITALIAN-FRENCH-GREEK-MOROCCAN-SPANISH-MEDITERRANEAN-ETC..." restaurant on 12th Ave on Capitol Hill (just outside the two-block radius hack alert, haterz) that featured self-described "Slow Cooking and Fast Serving" ("If You Try It, You'll never Cook Again"), has closed. The Esmerelda space was previously a burrito/pizza restaurant. It will next be a "GREAT CHINESE FOOD" restaurant. I do not know what it will be after that.

I never ate at Esmerelda (and I never ate at the burrito/pizza restaurant that was there before it), but I always felt guilty about not eating there. And now it is gone.