On a hot muggy summer day, dozens of people stood in line outside the lone restaurant on a vacant street for one last refreshing bowl of perhaps the most famous Pyongyang cold noodles in Seoul.

The 37-year-old restaurant Eulji Myeonok closed its doors on Saturday, 72 years to the day after North Korea’s invasion started the Korean War. Located in Euljiro, a once-bustling district of alleyways, small workshops and eateries, the restaurant was a little piece of Pyongyang in the city. On the wall, black-and-white photos of Pyongyang and decades-old maps of North Korea reminded visitors of the owners’ roots.