Bite your tongue! Al's Beef is the bomb! Those chili fries are yummy.They aren't very good anyway. And as you mentioned, they closed a while ago. There was a mediocre Mexican place there last time I was downtown.
No idea of the Mexican joint is still there. When the switch jedi stopped going. The Al's was a franchise location. The owner did not renew the license and instead decided to open a mexican joint.