Party Fowl has closed its flagship location in the Gulch.
The closing, announced via a social media this week, comes after the Baton Rouge, La.-based parent company of the hot chicken restaurant and bar business recently filed a request for a permit to operate at 1016 Woodland St. in East Nashville’s Five Points.
The East Side space formerly housed Tenn Sixteen Food & Drink Co., which closed at 2019’s end. After that, it was home to 5 Points Diner and Bar. The 4,420-square-foot building was listed for sale in February.
The Five Points Party Fowl is one of four locations planned by new ownership R&R Brands. The company also is eyeing locations in Murfreesboro, Sylvan Park and near Vanderbilt University’s campus. Party Fowl operates a restaurant in Donelson.
The concept is emerging from its bankruptcy in 2024 and recently saw an ownership change to the aforementioned R&R Brands from Raleigh, N.C.-based Cherry Bounce Hospitality, which acquired the company in late 2024.
The Gulch Party Fowl opened in 2014, with Austin Smith and Nick Jacobson having founded the concept.
Bob Bass and Charles Debray, details about whom Scene sister publication the Nashville Post was unable to determine, own the Gulch property that accommodated Party Fowl. The address is 719 Eighth Ave. S.
“You were our very first roost, and we’ve loved every spicy, saucy, slushie-filled minute with you," reads R&R Brands' post. "We’ve officially flown the coop in the Gulch … but we’re nesting in East Nashville soon!”
This article was first published by our sister publication, the Nashville Post.
