What could go wrong?
Morgan Wallen is gearing up to open his downtown Nashville bar, Morgan Wallen’s This Bar & Tennessee Kitchen, later this year.
The 6-story lower Broadway venue, situated just between Dierks Bentley’s Whiskey Row and the Ryman Auditorium, will be a bar, restaurant and live music concept, which is being brought to life by Morgan along with TC Restaurant Group, which currently operates several artist-themed bars on Broadway, including Jason Aldean’s Kitchen + Rooftop Bar, Luke Bryan’s 32 Bridge, and Miranda Lambert’s Casa Rosa.
Of course the opening will come on the heels of Morgan’s high-profile arrest at Eric Church’s new downtown Nashville bar, Chief’s, for allegedly throwing a chair off the roof…so hopefully having his own bar isn’t a recipe for disaster.
And before the first location even opens, Morgan is reportedly already eyeing a second location.
According to a report by the Las Vegas Review-Journal, the country superstar is reportedly opening a restaurant on the Las Vegas Strip, which would presumably be another location of his This Bar & Tennessee Kitchen.
The restaurant would occupy 10,000 square feet on the second and third floors of 63 Las Vegas, located at 3716 Las Vegas Blvd. South. A building permit filed for the space show the construction of a new “Vegas Country Music Restaurant,” and a permit has also been filed for the construction of an “ellipse rooftop balcony” connected to the restaurant, which just sounds like a disaster waiting to happen because…well, we know how Morgan and rooftop bars mix.
So far neither Morgan nor TC Restaurant Group have commented on the report, but the Review-Journal reportedly spoke with a source connected to the project who was not authorized to speak on the record.
I guess we’ll have to wait and see if Morgan is already expanding his business empire before the first bar even opens…and whether the chairs on the “ellipse rooftop balcony” will be bolted down in case the owner stops by.
