Today is the last day in business for the Greene Turtle Sports Bar & Grille in Ballston.
The restaurant, at 900 N. Glebe Road, will close permanently at its normal midnight closing time tonight, a tipster told us and an employee confirmed.
The Greene Turtle first opened in January 2012, in an expansive space featuring more than 50 TVs on the walls and in booths. It struggled to attract enough customers to make it viable, we’re told, owing at least in part to its location across busy Glebe Road from Ballston’s main business district.
“Greene Turtle has been starving from the moment it opened,” an insider told us last month. “That side of Glebe is just brutal.”
Another tipster told ARLnow.com last month that the Greene Turtle would be replaced by an Applebee’s restaurant later this summer. An employee today said that was true. So far, the company has not confirmed the news.
Restaurant staff was informed of the closure on Friday, we hear.