Bungalow10 interior
The hospitality company that opened American steakhouse Supper Club in October in Hillsboro Village is now eyeing a Jan. 12 debut for its Bungalow10, also in the district.
According to a release, the restaurant — billed as a “modern dining experience featuring globally inspired cuisine” — will operate in a building with an address of 1910 Belcourt Ave. Supper Club is located next door at 2000 Belcourt Ave. in a building that once housed restaurants Faison's and The Trace (read here).
Bungalow10 offers 4,800 square feet of interior space (with “vibrant pops of color and tropical motifs,” the release notes), an outdoor patio and an indoor bar area. In addition to table seating, the restaurant features 13 booths that can seat eight to 10 people each.
Bungalow10 will operate from a building most recently home to Cabana Taps and Music City Bread Company and, prior to that, local restaurateur Randy Rayburn’s Cabana. The structure is perhaps best known as having housed, in the 1990s, late-night spot The Iguana.
Culinary director Brandon Truesdale created Bungalow10’s menu, items on which will include a St. Louis-style fried rice, a sea burger (to offer Atlantic salmon), empanadas, fried snapper and a spicy rigatoni.
Bungalow10 hours of operation will be Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursdays from 5 to 11 p.m. and Fridays from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. Brunch service will be offered Saturdays and Sundays from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m., with the business remaining open until 1 a.m. on Saturdays and 9 p.m. on Sundays. In addition, the restaurant will offer either live music or a live DJ on Fridays and Saturdays from 9 p.m. to 1 a.m.
Make a Play Hospitality Group, led by Joe Johnson and Robert Higgins, owns and operates both Supper Club and Bungalow10. The latter marks the duo’s ninth hospitality venture. The company previously operated Jazz & Jokes Lounge in downtown Nashville near Printers Alley.
Make a Play Hospitality Group is not disclosing either the terms of its lease (with an Arizona-based ownership) or the cost to get Bungalow10 operational. Shannon Ford will serve as general manager.
The release notes the company is also slated to open a cocktail club in Hillsboro Village “soon,” providing no other details.
"We’re thrilled to finally introduce Music City to Bungalow10 — a place with food for every mood,” Higgins says in the release. “As with our other restaurants, Bungalow10 is where great food, great company and great vibes collide. We can't wait to share it with the community and create unforgettable memories together.”
Supper Club on Belcourt (the building previously housed Aladdin’s Hookah Bar & Lounge) is the second Supper Club Tennessee location, following the opening of a sister business in Memphis in August 2022. In addition to Faison’s, The Trace and Alladin’s, the building has accommodated T's Tuscan Bar and Grille, Veranda and Bombasha, among others.
Former local restaurateur Jody Faison opened Faison’s in the 1980s at a time when Nashville’s nightclub and restaurant scenes were still modest in quality and scope (read more here). Along with the since-closed Sunset Grill, Faison’s fueled the Hillsboro Village nightlife. The Trace (in which Faison had no ownership), its successor, also enjoyed a strong run, closing prior to the Great Recession.
