So what happened to Maguire's Uptown Grille, Mark Maguire's uptown extension of his successful Maguire's Regional Cuisine in North Dallas? Maguire says he buttoned up his grill on Cedar Springs Road after closing for a Fourth of July hiatus. Didn't make sense to reopen. The Grille, which Maguire says took a hit after Dallas' smoking ban was implemented, was generating profits, but not enough—especially since it was squeezing time Maguire could devote to lucrative consulting projects. Then profits failed to fatten in the wake of an advertising deluge. "So...I had to answer the question, 'Do I believe that I can get the revenue at this location up to a level that would allow me to pull away?'" he says in an e-mail. The answer was a resounding "no." Maguire says he is locked in negotiations to sell the fully furnished restaurant to another operator. He also says he intends to open another Maguire's.
CORRECTION: The restaurant Mistra in the new Hilton Hotel in Rockwall will serve strictly Mediterranean cuisine, and not the Pan-Asian Mediterranean hybrid described in Hash Over, July 5. Also, the New Hilton will be called the Hilton Bella Harbor on Lake Ray Hubbard, not the Mariah Bay Hilton Hotel and Conference Center. We regret the errors.
