{"id":400962,"date":"2026-08-08T06:34:16","date_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:34:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400962\/"},"modified":"2026-08-08T06:34:16","modified_gmt":"2026-08-08T06:34:16","slug":"whats-going-to-happen-to-all-those-salad-and-gos","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/400962\/","title":{"rendered":"What’s going to happen to all those Salad and Gos?"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happened to Goodsurf Beach Club? <\/a><\/p>\n

When Goodsurf announced its seasonal closure last November, the beach-themed entertainment venue with a 30-foot Citywave simulator and a menu designed by Nick Badovinus<\/a> seemed set to return in the spring of 2026. They did not, prompting many a \u201cWhen do y\u2019all open back up?\u201d on Instagram and Reddit<\/a>. There\u2019s currently a \u201cFor Lease\u201d sign at 317 S Second Avenue in Deep Ellum, a broken homepage<\/a>, and radio silence on social media. The property owner is still listed as Spanky Branch LLC, which has owned the space since 2019, when it was home to Sandbar Cantina. But I received an \u201cundeliverable\u201d notification when I emailed Goodsurf\u2019s community engagement manager.<\/p>\n

Sad! I can\u2019t claim to have been a Goodsurf regular, but I really enjoyed the few times I visited. It was one of those rare places that was equally fun<\/a> for kids to hang out while parents had a happy hour. I\u2019m in one mom group chat that feels like it\u2019s been trying to coordinate a Goodsurf outing for over a year\u2014guess we\u2019ll have to let that dream go.<\/p>\n

D CEO wrote about Goodsurf\u2019s ambitions before it opened in 2024 (there were plans to expand to \u201cupwards of 25 venues by 2030\u201d). The spot shared a former exec with TopGolf (Goodsurf\u2019s co-founder, Zach Shor) and even a debt partner in EPR Properties, which had committed \u201c$100 million for future projects on a deal by deal basis\u201d. Per LinkedIn, Shor founded a real estate and hospitality consulting group in October 2025, just before Goodsurf went dark for good. (We\u2019ve reached out to Shor for insight into the closure, and will update this post with any comment.)<\/p>\n

It\u2019s hard out there for a massive entertainment venture in North Texas.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happened to Goodsurf Beach Club? When Goodsurf announced its seasonal closure last November, the beach-themed entertainment venue…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":400963,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[102,104,103],"class_list":["post-400962","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-dallas","tag-dallas","tag-dallas-headlines","tag-dallas-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400962","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=400962"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/400962\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/400963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=400962"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=400962"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=400962"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}