Pelican & Pig, a Nashville restaurant featured on the hit Netflix show Somebody Feed Phil, announced Tuesday it will be closing its doors after seven years in Music City after the business saw a sharp increase in its property taxes.
The restaurant said its final day will be this upcoming Saturday, March 14.
“It is with great heartbreak that we tell you Pelican & Pig has reached the end of the road. We have come to the very difficult decision that we cannot continue on as we have,” owners Nick and Audra Guidry announced in a social media post.
“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. 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,” they added.
The owners went on, explaining their decision to shutter the restaurant was due to the rising costs of owning a business in Nashville.
“Unfortunately, it’s become incredibly expensive to operate a business in this city and we’re left with the difficult decision to put the fires out,” they said.
In a statement to Fox 17, Nick Guidry said the closure comes on the heels of receiving a large property tax bill on top of other climbing prices, including food and rent costs, and a drop in tourism spending.
“When you have such a large amount of money that has to go out to property taxes, it just — it left too much uncertainty and really just took our knees out,” he told the outlet.
Guidry continued, noting that he believes his business will not be the only one to shutter its doors in the near future due to rising costs.
“I think we are at the cusp of a domino effect,” he told Fox 17. “We won’t be the last ones that we see probably in the next six, 12 months that are making this decision.”
“If something isn’t done to help independent businesses as a whole, you’re going to see the landscape of Nashville change very rapidly,” he added.
Pelican & Pig’s closure comes weeks after Nashville Mayor Freddie O’Connell said “not all businesses…are possible for survival” in the city as a response to concerns another small, iconic Nashville business, Acme Feed and Seed, would close after its property tax bill quadrupled in 2025.
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Kaitlin Housler is a reporter at The Tennessee Star and The Star News Network. Follow Kaitlin on X / Twitter.
Photo “Pelican and Pig” by Pelican and Pig.
