Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Dallas branch of Saltwater Willy’s closes
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If you crave the sight of this cartoon crab, you'll need to drive to Grapevine.
DALLAS — The Dallas branch of Saltwater Willy's, a New Orleans-style seafood restaurant on Greenville Avenue, closed down three weeks ago. A spokesman for the restaurant said that business was too slow -- "lunch was good, but nighttimes were slow," he said.
Described by one savvy local foodie as "a poor man's Pappadeaux," Willy's was located in the former home of Gershwin's, which had occupied that spot at the corner of Walnut Hill and Greenville for more than 20 years. But that area of Greenville is kindof a dead zone, restaurant-wise.
The original branch in Grapevine is still going strong, and the spokesman says that management is seeking a new location that might have better traffic.
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Billusa99 Anonymous
Hey, I resemble that remark!
...Willy99
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WhitneyTM Anonymous
Dang! I didn't get enough time to be sure whether the food or the sign was worse.
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nicolrenee Anonymous
I work in a nearby building and I can tell you that for a restaurant to succeed over there, the food has to be worth eating, and the place can't smell like a garbage scow. It had little to do with location. Neither I nor any of my colleagues would eat over there because the quality of the food was so incinsistent. If lunch isn't worth eating, why would anyone take their families there for dinner? Even during the short time it was open, the grease traps became so fouled on more than one occasion that the stench was unavoidable from even a distance away. All I can say is ewwwww! Good riddance, and I hope that something moves into the location that has greater appeal. A Thai restaurant would be my downfall!
10 months, 2 weeks ago ( Link to this comment | Suggest removal )
kevinh Anonymous
The best thing they made was their complimentary cornbread. Everything else was sub-par.
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Aaron Johnson Verified
Regardless of the food, that was just a bad location for a sit down restaurant as evidenced by the closing of the original Chili's just down the street.
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nicolrenee Anonymous
That Chili's had a parking lot that was full every time I went by. Mind you, it was a small lot and inconvenient to get to, but it was always full. I could be wrong, but if you ask me, they closed that location because the time was right to make a lucrative land deal with one of the developers making a land grab in the area. That way they can move to a better location with more space/parking and therefore more revenue since it will be easier to get more faces in the place. In another year or so, there is going to be even more traffic in the area. Developers are going nuts over there right now trying to build retail/residential combos as fast as they can that will include an 80k sf Whole Foods Market among the many retailers. I can't wait to see what follows. Construction on the hospital grounds and on Walnut Hill in particular has temporarily slowed the people flow, but what will be gained once all of it is said and done will more than make up for the lull of the moment. All I have to say is that if a restaurant is so bad that even the people otherwise stuck eating hospital food avoid it, there is something seriously wrong. (-:
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