East Nashville’s Sluggish Hand Espresso + Bakeshop and Pelican & Pig will stop operations this Saturday, March 14.
Married couple Audra Guidry and Nick Guidry, the homeowners of the 2 companies, introduced the looming closures by way of social media, thanking their prospects and staff.
“We owe a lot to Nashville, and have been regularly blessed by the folks we’ve met, had the glory to make use of, and have befriended alongside the best way,” they write. “We now have at all times beloved being part of Nashville and we really feel we gave it the perfect of us and what we needed to supply. Sadly, it’s turn into extremely costly to function a enterprise on this metropolis and we’re left with the tough to choice to shut our doorways.”
Nick and Audra Guidry’s institution works wonders with live-fire cooking
Positioned at 1010 Gallatin Ave., adjoining to neighborhood bar Pearl Diver, the dinner-only Pelican and Pig opened in 2019 and has positioned a lot of its concentrate on native and seasonal greens. In 2023, Scene restaurant critic Kay West wrote that the Guidrys “work wonders with live-fire cooking.”
Sluggish Hand Espresso + Bakeshop, which operates in an adjoining area at 1012 Gallatin Ave., opened in 2018. It changed the unique Sluggish Hand, which operated in a constructing at 300 tenth Ave. S. throughout from Cummins Station in SoBro.
The Guidrys’ Sluggish Hand Bakehouse and Olivia Craft Cocktail & Wine Bar situated in Lebanon will stay operational.
The constructing from which the 2 soon-to-close companies function seemingly has been owned by a household — particulars about whom Scene sister publication the Nashville Submit was unable to find out — since 1958, in response to Metro data.
This text was first revealed by our sister publication, the Nashville Submit.
