East Nashville's Slow Hand Coffee + Bakeshop and Pelican & Pig will cease operations this Saturday, March 14.
Married couple Audra Guidry and Nick Guidry, the owners of the two businesses, announced the looming closures via social media, thanking their customers and employees.
“We owe so much to Nashville, and have been continually blessed by the people we’ve met, had the honor to employ, and have befriended along the way," they write. "We have always loved being a part of Nashville and we feel we gave it the best of us and what we had to offer. Unfortunately, it’s become incredibly expensive to operate a business in this city and we’re left with the difficult to decision to close our doors."
Nick and Audra Guidry’s establishment works wonders with live-fire cooking
Located at 1010 Gallatin Ave., adjacent to neighborhood bar Pearl Diver, the dinner-only Pelican and Pig opened in 2019 and has placed much of its focus on local and seasonal vegetables. In 2023, Scene restaurant critic Kay West wrote that the Guidrys "work wonders with live-fire cooking."
Slow Hand Coffee + Bakeshop, which operates in an adjacent space at 1012 Gallatin Ave., opened in 2018. It replaced the original Slow Hand, which operated in a building at 300 10th Ave. S. across from Cummins Station in SoBro.
The Guidrys’ Slow Hand Bakehouse and Olivia Craft Cocktail & Wine Bar located in Lebanon will remain operational.
The building from which the two soon-to-close businesses operate seemingly has been owned by a family — details about whom Scene sister publication the Nashville Post was unable to determine — since 1958, according to Metro records.
This article was first published by our sister publication, the Nashville Post.
