Ark-Mex edges toward extinction

Fans of Pancho's weren't ready to say goodbye

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Confidential to eaters in the vicinity of West Memphis: This story mentions the closure of Pancho’s.

Pancho’s—one of the last great emblems of Ark-Mex, an obscure combination of deracinated tacos and standalone stucco buildings that sits near the pleasure center of longtime Arkansans’ brains—in November did the unthinkable: It up and moved to Minnesota.

 
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