Sundown at Granada, a stalwart brunch spot in Dallas, will close after service on Nov. 1, 2026. Owners Mike Schoder and Julia Garton sold the restaurant and the historic Granada Theater, as reported by Dallas Morning News columnist Robert Wilonsky, to New York entrepreneurs who plan to open a wellness center called Bathhouse.
The historic concert hall will be filled with saunas, pools and steam rooms. Sundown at Granada will be torn down.
While the Granada has stood tall on Greenville Avenue for 80 years, its funky restaurant next door opened just under 15 years ago. Sundown at Granada was an occasional music venue, a come-as-you-are brunch bar and an East Dallas haunt known for its burger with bacon-whiskey jam.
Many visited for the watermelon margarita — marked down to $7 during happy hour. Me, I learned to love mushrooms with Sundown’s Hammered Goat flatbread, a vegetarian pizza covered in cheese, shrooms and truffle honey.
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Sundown felt like a place where musicians hung out, not only headliners grabbing a bite before a gig but also local players who liked the vibe music lovers Schoder and Garton created when they bought the Granada Theater, then opened Sundown.
In this DMN file photo, singer Amber Farris and Somebody’s Darling performed to a packed restaurant at Sundown at Granada on Lower Greenville in Dallas.
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The closure of their legacy properties will feel surprising to some, Wilonsky wrote. Heartbreaking to others.
Schoder and Garton understand.
“I’ve cried more tears than can fill up White Rock Lake,” Garton said. “I’m so honored to have helped open Sundown with Mike. We’ve seen all of its lives.”
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The restaurant and rooftop remain available for private events through the end of 2026, and both are available for one last round of holiday parties.
The Granada Theater will stay open for several months longer than the restaurant, with concerts booked until April 2027. After it closes, Bathhouse’s co-founders plan to keep the Granada’s iconic marquee and facade in place. Once guests walk through the doors, Bathhouse will “feel like a very different experience,” co-founder Travis Talmadge told Wilonsky.
DMN columnist Robert Wilonsky broke the news that the Granada Theater and its restaurant, Sundown at Granada, are closing. The concert hall — formerly a movie theater, a church and more — has been open on Dallas’ Greenville Avenue for 80 years.
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Sundown at Granada’s Dallas history
Schoder named Sundown at Granada after the town in Manitoba, Canada, where his mother and grandmother were raised. Grandma Foster lived in a town of under 100 people; she didn’t get indoor plumbing until 1978. During visits to Sundown, Schoder remembers sitting around a big wooden table with cousins, aunts and uncles who swapped stories while they made dinner or canned rhubarb for the winter.
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He decided to call his first and only restaurant Sundown at Granada, tying it to the tiny town of his childhood and the iconic Dallas music venue he co-owns.
“It was awesome to be able to honor those two women in my life who influenced me and molded me in so many ways,” Schoder said. Both were alive when the restaurant opened in early 2012, and both have since died.
The restaurant survived the COVID-19 pandemic and the myriad challenges in a volatile food and beverage industry. “We are leaving very risky businesses,” Garton said.
In this 2015 file photo, Sundown at Granada and Granada Theater owners Julia Garton and Mike Schoder hosted a biker event at the restaurant.
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Schoder, 58, and Garton, 51, who are partners in business and in life, are headed toward retirement. Schoder already knows how he’ll fill a day. “Wake up, work out, bike the lake, garden, gather some food, cook for each other — and, hopefully, for friends — go play a sport. Go see some music and not have to worry whether the bartenders showed up or what kind of mood anybody might be in. Have a cocktail and go to bed.”
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Sounds busy. But easier.
I asked whether he considered selling Sundown at Granada to another restaurateur who could keep it going.
“We did think about that,” Schoder said. “The magic is in the whole of it, though. It’s two acres of land in the middle of Dallas.”
After the sting of change subsides, Schoder hopes East Dallasites will visit Bathhouse.
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“This is about wellness, which is actually super close to our hearts,” Schoder said. “This is going to be a place where people pledge to take care of themselves. For the next chapter of Granada, that really resonates with us.”
Sundown at Granada is at 3520 Greenville Ave., Dallas. Open seven days a week. Food and drink service will continue through Nov. 1, 2026. The last day’s a big one: The restaurant will serve brunch, lunch and dinner and host Geeks Who Drink trivia. The day ends at the Granada Theater with a cystic fibrosis benefit with Rhett Miller, Jamie Lin Wilson and Joshua Ray Walker.