Why Did Cedar Grove Close?
Wednesday, May 31, 2017 at 4 a.m. Cedar Grove closed this week just shy of a year after it opened on Cedar Springs Road ." /> Cedar Grove closed this week just shy of a year after it opened on Cedar Springs Road . Beth Rankin For Tim McEneny, principal at Dallas restaurant group NL Group , the closing of Cedar Springs bar and brunch spot Cedar Grove wasn 't as abrupt as it seemed. "Cedar Grove was just exhausting, and it was just bleeding cash," McEneny said in a Tuesday afternoon phone interview with the Dallas Observer . After opening in June 2016, the restaurant closed this week following what McEneny said was a bustling Sunday drag brunch . NL Group has operated concepts in Cedar Grove's space — at the base of the Ilume Apartments at 4123 Cedar Springs Road — for nine years, first as Dish Cedar Springs and then as Cedar Grove. That location was often a struggle, McEneny says. After closing Dish and relocating it to Preston Hollow in early 2016, N...