Scene Shutters

Posted on June 30th, 2008 9:43am by Tim Rogers
Filed under Dining

Teresa Gubbins reports that the downtown restaurant has shut down. The great thing about that is Scene was our lead review for the August issue, which we’re sending to the printer right now. Photographs already taken, story already written, etc. I wonder if those 700 AT&Ters headed up from San Antonio to downtown Dallas might have made a difference?

11 comments

  1. Scene was one of my favorite restaurants in town and this is horrible news for me. Chef Blaine did some really great stuff. :(

    BBaahhhhwwaaaaaaaa!!!

    @ 10:15 am on June 30, 2008

  2. Grotto is down as well.

    @ 10:45 am on June 30, 2008

  3. and Bush doesn’t see anything wrong with the economy. Restaurants are the first casualties of a bad economy. Less money = less eating out. Especially for the $30k millionaires unable to get more credit cards.

    @ 11:10 am on June 30, 2008

  4. something about location…scene is right behind my building and it simply doesn’t have ample parking for the masses

    decent decor and food and all, but without a valet or enough parking right out front, Dallasites ain’t gonna bite, at least that’s my take

    and downtown is DEAD DEAD DEAD after 530-6 pm weekdays and all weekend long, so how’s a restaurant gonna make it, man?

    @ 11:48 am on June 30, 2008

  5. Downtown is not dead.

    @ 1:18 pm on June 30, 2008

  6. I liked Scene a lot. I think that there were a number of contributing factors — one of them being the unnecessarily brutal review they got from the Dallas Morning News. Yes, Scene may not have been perfect, but they surely didn’t deserve the whipping they got from the News.

    @ 2:31 pm on June 30, 2008

  7. prove it, Puddin’Tane

    i’ll meet you out front of Scene at 10 p.m. on a Friday,Saturday night and you can show me these signs of life you claim

    @ 2:53 pm on June 30, 2008

  8. If JRP and Puddin’Tane met in front of Scene on a Friday night, it would look like a grand re-opening.

    @ 3:24 pm on June 30, 2008

  9. Very sad. I loved going here for lunch and Happy Hour and they also had great food at dinner the couple times I went. It was especially great for After work Happy Hour since I live next door to Scene at Republic Tower and also work downtown. I will sure miss it. Hopefully they will re-brand it as something cheaper (particulary at dinner) so it’s not another vacant eye-sore in Downtown Dallas. This sure can’t help Mosaic either and potential renters.

    The one thing I did not like about Scene was that patio. It was like why on earth would anyone want to sit out there with the noisy DART going by and then of course there are some of the “interesting” people roaming around downtown Dallas. They should not have even had a patio or at least enclosed it more and put some plants, lighting, misters, etc out there.

    Man such a shame though this place is gone.

    @ 3:44 pm on June 30, 2008

  10. why on God’s green Earth, indeed, AMKTCU

    @ 6:27 pm on June 30, 2008

  11. No jrp, downtown is not dead. Scene was located just a few blocks north of where the action is, and location is everything. Go to Main St on a Saturday night and then try to tell me it’s dead.

    I personally think scene was just a little too avant guard. They needed at least one thing on their menu that was “comfortable”.

    The same financial backers are going to reopen the location as another restaurant in the future. The location isn’t dead yet, just the concept.

    @ 8:09 am on July 1, 2008