But, for those in the know, many incredible, older, not quiet hole-in-the-wall, food merchants still exist.
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Dr Mitra is most famous for hole-in-the-wall computers which he put in the slums of India.
It was the 29th hole-in-one on the European Tour this year and the ninth in Asia.
Meanwhile, Thai Chapchai Nirat rocketed up the leaderboard when he sunk a hole-in-one at the eighth.
He has also blamed his own disorganisation, ill health (including an impending hole-in-the-heart operation) and linguistic misunderstandings.
He came close to a hole-in-one on the 13th hole, and went bunker-to-bunker for bogey on the 14th hole.
Coben, the Tiger Woods of thriller novels, has another hole-in-one with this book.
In 1868, golf's first recorded hole-in-one was scored by Scotsman Tom Morris at Prestwick's 166-yard 8th hole, during the Open Championships.
In TriBeCa, Terroir (24 Harrison St, near Greenwich Street, www.wineisterroir.com) is the sister of a much-loved hole-in-wall wine bar of the same name in the East Village.
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Far from seeing this as the economic equivalent of a hole-in-one, some townsfolk worry that their ancient town is being turned into a golfing Disneyworld.
So less than a week after Saddam Hussein surrendered to American troops from his hole-in-the-ground hideaway, the world is avidly discussing the fate of Iraq's former dictator.
Northern Ireland's Graeme McDowell, after a dreadful start to the season in America, celebrated his return with a hole-in-one at the seventh and is also now on six under.
The T815 has just a bit more features than the T805 -- but both fit in your pocket, have visual and spoken directions and points-of-interest location (like the hole-in-the-wall burger joint).
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Plac Nowy, a square lined with market stalls, cafes and hole-in-the-wall food stands, where locals snack on Krakow's best zapiekanka, toasted half baguettes topped with cheese, mushrooms and sometimes ham and onions.
Meanwhile, Welshman Jamie Donaldson also earned himself a place in the Augusta record books after hitting a hole-in-one at the sixth, only the fifth player in the competition's 77-year history to achieve the feat.
Ten years from now you will probably have forgotten the name of that authentic hole-in-wall local bistro you found, or the off-the-beaten path residential neighborhood you strolled through, but you will remember that gondola ride.
Chef Pui Gor of Tim Ho Wan, a cheap, hole-in-the-wall, dim-sum-only restaurant with a cult following, makes a contemporary version of a bean curd skin roll, filling it with light shrimp rather than the traditional fatty minced pork.
Add to that the extraordinary talent in the kitchens of Dublin's Michelin-starred restaurants as well as in hole-in-the-wall cafes in the countryside, and you have nothing less than a culinary rebirth, a phoenix rising from the coal ash, deliciously.
Make sure to stop by Hashem, the finest falafel cafe in the country bar none (it has a picture of King Hussein dining here on its wall, if you need any further recommendation) and Habibah, a hole-in-the-wall baker selling Palestinian knafeh, a syrupy vermicelli-like pastry that locals swear by.
The staff in the restaurant is professional and pleasant, the by-the-glass wine list is decent, and my linguine with clams last night was much better than the linguine with radicchio I had at that little hole-in-the-wall (with a great sense of place) near the Grand Hotel Gianicolo yesterday before heading for the station.
Losing the series shouldn't have been completely surprising for the Knicks, who'd fallen in a 3-1 hole in the best-of-seven series and had battled to simply force a Game 6.
Adam Scott won the Masters tournament at Augusta National, posting a -9 score for the four rounds, then beating Angel Cabrera in a two-hole playoff in the rain.
The American famously defeated five-time winner Tom Watson in a four-hole play-off to win at Turnberry in 2009, denying the 59-year-old the chance of a fairytale sixth Open win.
Brooklyn blew a 14-point lead late in regulation and lost 142-134 to the Chicago Bulls on Saturday, leaving the Nets in a 3-1 hole in the first round of the playoffs.
The New York Knicks felt they were outworked even more than outplayed in a 102-95 loss to the Indiana Pacers on Sunday that put them in a 1-0 hole in the Eastern Conference semifinals.
With all the uncertainties about how the Co-op will fill the hole in Co-op Bank's capital resources, it seems unlikely that the PRA will remain quite so arms length.
They erased a 20-point deficit that North Carolina built in the first half and then nearly climbed out of a nine-point hole in the final minutes after the Tar Heels hit three consecutive 3-pointers and once again appeared to take control.
"The fact that there's a very young cluster of stars indicates that the intermediate-mass black hole may have originated as the central black hole in a very low-mass dwarf galaxy, "Sean Farrell, of the Sydney Institute for Astronomy in Australia, said in a statement.
That's not how coach Mike Woodson intended to spend Sunday afternoon following an abysmal Game 3 performance that left the Knicks in a 2-1 hole and in a precarious position heading into Tuesday night's game at Indiana.
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