As with any year, 2015 brought some exciting new restaurants and stores to Raleigh, but painfully took its share, too.Here’s a look at the high-impact openings and closings for the year:

Openings

• Standard foods
• Death and Taxes
• Taverna Agora
• Raleigh Beer Garden
• Tropical Pickin Chicken
• Kamado Grill
• Gonza Tacos (Hillsborough St location)
• Cantina 18 (renovation)
• Big Ed’s (North Raleigh location)
• Rise Biscuits
• Jade Garden (reopen)
• P.G. Werth’s
• More
• Carolina Ale House
• Wicked Taco
• Chick-Fil-A (Lake Boone location)

Closings

• Crowleys
• Tir na Nog
• 518 West
• Battistella’s
• BigBoom
• Firewurst
• Pie Bird
• Person Street Pharmacy
• Tyler’s Taproom
• Mantra
• Natty Greene’s
• Zinda (converted to private dining)
• Ciago’s
• Brewmasters
• Filippos the Belgian
• Swad
• Colony Theater
• Marsh Woodwinds
• North American Video

Certainly 2016 will bring its surprises, too. Stay tuned for Gogoraleigh’s predictions for 2016, coming later this week.