Ellendale's Restaurant

What happened after

100-year-old farmhouse restaurant closed in 2018; the historic building later burned down.

Closure date on record: 2018-07

What happened on the show

Housed in a century old farmhouse in the Donelson area of Nashville, Ellendale's Restaurant carried real history when it had its twelfth season episode on the series. Irvine gave Ellendale's the show's standard two day overhaul on the program's lean makeover budget, working to steady a beloved but struggling operation. The episode's on air particulars went unrecorded in the Wikipedia listing, so this page does not piece them together from guesswork. The ending was mournful and then, later, literal. The owners announced the restaurant's closure in July 2018 with a heavy hearted farewell, and by early 2025 the vacant historic farmhouse itself had been destroyed by fire. For a hundred year old building, the story closed twice over, first as a restaurant and then as a landmark lost to flames.

After the cameras left

Ellendale's closed in July 2018, after roughly a century in its historic farmhouse. The Tennessean reported the closure that month with a heavy-hearted announcement from the restaurant, and WKRN plus a later Tennessean follow-up covered the vacant building's eventual destruction by fire; the accounts reached us as a search snippet, but the pairing means this is a high-confidence call. So the Nashville farmhouse restaurant closed first and the landmark building itself was later lost to fire, a two-stage ending that erased both the business and its home.