Photo courtesy of Hide Instagram
The cocktail bar Hide in Lowest Greenville quietly closed late last month after nine years in business.
Owner Nick Backlund cited permitting issues as the reason for Hide’s closure, as reported by The Dallas Morning News. Specifically, he was trying to get a permit to stay open until 2 a.m. instead of midnight. Long story short — he said he put in a lot of time and money trying to get this permit, but the City Plan Commission recommended denial.
“The whole process is just a convoluted mess, and it’s really silly,” Backlund said to The Dallas Morning News. It “was put into place many years ago to prevent bad actors, but I’m not a bad actor.”
Hide first opened in 2017 in Deep Ellum but moved to Greenville Avenue in 2022.
