Greenville Avenue Seafood and Jazz closing

by Teresa Gubbins

DALLAS — Greenville Avenue Seafood and Jazz, an ill-fated place if there ever was one, will close on August 25.

An email newsletter thanks customers for their support and promises "exciting specials and blow-out parties for all our valued guests."

This is the restaurant that opened in the space that used to be old Italian restaurant Nero's, modeled somewhat on the example of Sambuca, as a place where you could eat and hear jazz. But the space is so small that, to hear a combo perform was often deafening.

And the food was ... not so good. One memorable example: a bowl of jambalaya with two shrimp that were black -- not "blackened" in the mode of Cajun cooking, but black as in shriveled and bad.

The restaurant opened last year without much attention, and then a few months later hired a PR firm which blithely, some might say deceptively, trumpeted its grand opening, as if it hadn't been open already for months.

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