Unhappy information this weekend: After a decade in Wedgewood-Houston, Smokin’ Thighs is closing its doorways. The restaurant’s remaining day of service can be Sunday, Oct. 13.
Readers might recall that Smokin’ Thighs proprietor Matthew Carney died on July 4, about two weeks after being struck in a hit-and-run within the car parking zone of his restaurant. After Carney’s dying, a suspect within the case was apprehended and charged with prison murder.
On Friday night, Carney’s widow Molly Vice posted the next assertion on social media:
Saying goodbye is tough. It’s actually laborious.
It’s with profound disappointment that I share the time has come for us all to say goodbye to Smokin’ Thighs. After 10 years serving you, we’ll shut our doorways after service for the ultimate time on Sunday, October thirteenth.
To the Nashville neighborhood, I’ll be eternally grateful on your welcoming spirit of Smokin’ Thighs. Your unwavering assist of our household, significantly in these previous months, has been outstanding. With out you Matt’s dream would by no means have turn into a actuality.
I need to give a particular because of our present and previous staff and everybody who labored with Matt at Smokin’ Thighs. Your time, vitality and fervour strolling with him on this journey is what introduced “Dump Truck O’Wings” and “Thighs in a Pile” to life within the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood. You allow me with many fond reminiscences of who he was and what he hoped to create.
On behalf of everybody at Smokin’ Thighs, it has been our best honor to serve you.
All my thanks and deepest gratitude,
Molly
In case you’re studying this on or earlier than Sunday, now’s your likelihood to bid farewell to the beloved, pleasant, self-described backyard-chicken-and-bar spot.
