On New Yr’s Eve, the spot vacated by Bay 6 in The Wash in East Nashville quietly opened its doorways. The brand new enterprise is what proprietor Chad Newton calls an “all-day refresher,” that means it can serve cocktails, beer, wine, meals, espresso and juice. Like Bay 6 earlier than it, Fly Pelican Fly would be the solely place that serves alcoholic drinks in The Wash. Proper now, the staff is ready for its liquor license, so all drinks are of the mocktail persuasion (good for these Dry January actions).
“FPF just isn’t a Miami-, Cuban-, tiki- or rum-themed bar by any means,” says Newton, who co-owns You Are Right here Hospitality and owns Fly Pelican Fly. “However [it] is unquestionably tropical-inspired, emitting trip vibes, and an easy-breezy really feel supposed for folks simply to take pleasure in nice meals and cocktails in a comfortable and relaxed area.”
The menu consists of adobo-lime-dusted rooster nuggets, burgers and vegetarian breakfast burritos. Protein espresso, rooibos latte and sizzling buttered pineapple cider are amongst a few of the much less conventional nonalcoholic drinks. Come spring, there will probably be soft-serve ice cream with completely different toppings.
Up to now, Bay 6 allowed visitors of The Wash to eat within the small bar, even when they weren’t ordering drinks, as a result of it was the one totally coated, weather-proof area on the car-wash-turned-food-court. Now the shared patio is roofed and has heaters and followers, so it’s not as important to seek out an indoor seat. Nevertheless, anybody who desires to eat at FPF can deliver meals from different eating places at The Wash, no buy required. Or they will order meals from taking part Wash ideas to be delivered to their bar seat whereas they sip their drink.
“It was undoubtedly not in our plans [to open a bar],” Newton says. “However when the area got here obtainable it simply made a variety of sense for us.” You Are Right here Hospitality can also be affiliated with East Aspect Pho and Sweeza Tremendous Quesadilla in The Wash.
The bar’s title — and the flamingo within the brand — is a reference to a line from 1983’s Scarface. “It’s sort of an ‘IYKYK’ popular culture reference,” Newton says. “The those who know of the film scene assume that it’s hilarious, and the those who get aggravated that there’s a flamingo as a substitute of a pelican within the brand will probably be humorous to us.
“The one factor now we have discovered in doing this now for therefore lengthy now could be that we don’t must take issues so critical with each idea we do,” he continues. “After all, we take the hospitality, food and drinks very, very critical, that’s a nonstarter in our group, however the concept that we will’t have just a little enjoyable in creating a brand new idea appears a bit odd to me.”
On this soft-open section, till it will get beer and liquor licenses, Fly Pelican Fly will probably be open Thursday via Monday from 8 a.m. to 2 p.m. As soon as it serves alcohol, will probably be open seven days every week from 7 a.m. to 11 p.m.
