Two years after increasing to the Alon Market buying heart, Jewish-inspired San Antonio diner The Hayden has abruptly shuttered its second location, at 10003 NW Army Hwy. #2115. The unique outpost at 4025 Broadway will stay open.
The restaurant took to social media to announce the shock transfer. The assertion characterised the closure as a “pause,” though there look like no plans to reopen the fledgling location.
“After many sleepless nights, we have made the extraordinarily powerful resolution to pause our Alon location instantly whereas we work out what’s subsequent for that stunning area,” the restaurant wrote. “We want we may’ve introduced this sooner and thrown a correct farewell tour, however generally as Kenny [Rogers] says: you have to know when to carry ’em and when to fold ’em (and when to stroll away).”
Proprietor Adam Lampinstein opened The Hayden in summer season 2020, serving reimagined Jewish dishes like matzo ball soup and fried hen with latke waffles. The idea was a direct hit, with Texas Month-to-month’s now-retired meals author Pat Sharpe itemizing the restaurant’s pastrami and Swiss sandwich as one in all her favourite dishes of that 12 months.
After its profile was additional raised by a 2022 look on the Cooking Channel’s “Meals Paradise,” The Hayden branched out to a second location within the Alon Market growth in June 2023.
The Hayden opened its second location in 2023.The Hayden/ Fb
Though the Broadway restaurant remained one in all San Antonio’s most coveted brunch reservations, the Alon Market unit’s honeymoon interval rapidly wore off. In February, Lampinstein despatched a candid e-newsletter detailing an eight-month enterprise hunch. On the time, the enterprise was not threatened with a direct closure, however he warned he might need to “make some powerful choices about its future.”
Within the social media assertion, the restaurant shared that the closure wouldn’t hinder operations at its Broadway flagship.
“[H]ey, we’re doubling down on making The Hayden higher than ever earlier than. The group is working arduous on prolonged hours, menu updates, catering packages, and extra of that hospitable neighborhood diner vibe you’ve got come to anticipate (and deserve) from us,” mentioned the publish.
A request for additional remark from Lampinstein was not at publication time. CultureMap will replace this text ought to he return the decision.
