Lost 2 more places today. Barry's Pizza on Richmond & Tasting Room in Highland Village. Also: Dolce Vita Dak & Bop Rajun Cajun on Gessner Sweet Tomatoes Treebeards Downtown Crisp Know of any others? I really hope we don't lose more, but it looks to be inevitable.
Treebeards is closing the Market Square location “due to massive rent increase,” per owners. The 4 other downtown locations will remain open. And they continue to expand in other areas.
Like Treebeards, Dolce Vita also did not close because of the pandemic. It’s been on the market to be sold for a year now, and finally sold to some investors. It was the plan. Owners have wanted to move on.
Of course it was. And the space was apparently a favorite of the landlord too. So they hit them with a huge rent increase, to move them out. it happens. Sucks, but that happens on Market Square.
I'd seen that, as well. Not sure why it was included. Perhaps they shut down earlier than expected. All of these came from Eater, Chronicle & Culturemap.
Well, people like to make it political...when it was not political. you could edit your list in your OP, but you probably won’t.
All of the above have said they shut down due to this. Today's with Tasting Room & Barry's bugged me. Who knows how many more will shut down next.
Crisp closed? Looked like there were a bunch of cars there today. Would be a shame. Dolce Vita is also a bummer.
rajun cajun has always been pretty empty for decades it seems. I used to enjoy their crawfish tho. now i remember that area for the place where eddie griffin lost his life.
Sad moment when I released there will never be another Berry’s special no black olives add jalapeños. Tears, just sadness. Did the one at the airport close, too?
Sweet Tomatoes was going to close regardless. People no longer wanted to go there and they had discussed closing it several times over the last few years.
When I lived in the area the one on I10 was always packed. Mostly older folk, but I really enjoyed their salads and random assortment of baked items. Did this type of business get replaced by something newer or people just didn't like the concept anymore? It seemed a decent value proposition at the time. I believe it was 11 or 12 bucks.
It's still done at Whole Foods. My biggest complaint was they charged by the ounce, but the dressing had to equate to 50% of the weight.
They were poorly run and over expanded. They closed all their stores in a number of major markets 6-7 years ago and they filed bankruptcy back 4-5 years ago. They are claiming they had righted the ship and were performing strong recently. So I don’t know how much of that is true and how much of that is to try to drive up value in bankruptcy. What I suspect is that ownership saw the writing on the wall. With CDC guidelines and COVID19; buffet style restaurants are going to likely be a thing of the past. That style of restaurant already has a hard time in 2020. Now add in the stigma of viral concerns and the government likely to crack down.
