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Is Phat Bites Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 18 Nashville, Tennessee

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Phat Bites is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: The restaurant's own website listed current hours and the Lebanon Pike address when checked on 2026-09-08, and Yelp's listing for the same address, updated August 2026, showed 384 photos and 498 reviews. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Guy Fieri featured Phat Bites' Big Banana, a banana-bread French toast topped with bacon and whipped cream, and its Long Life Salad of kale, black-eyed peas, and mixed grains, according to a recap describing chef-owner Julie Buhler's menu. The deli and bar, at 2730 Lebanon Pike in Nashville's Donelson neighborhood, blends Caribbean and Asian flavors into sandwiches, salads, and burgers, per the same recap. Nashville Scene's food section has covered Phat Bites among a cluster of Donelson-area restaurants worth the drive, according to its own review. The business's own website, phatbites.com, listed current hours of 10:30 a.m. to 2 a.m. most days when checked on 2026-09-08. Yelp's listing for Phat Bites, updated August 2026, showed 384 photos and 498 reviews logged at the same Lebanon Pike address.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 18

Episode 13
Aired
Title: Soup, Salad and Seafood · What was featured: The Big Banana French toast and the Long Life Salad
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Sources we checked 3 references

  1. phatbites.com https://www.phatbites.com/location/phat-bites/
  2. Yelp https://www.yelp.com/biz/phat-bites-nashville-4
  3. nashvillescene.com https://www.nashvillescene.com/food_drink/phat-bites-2-phat-and-riffs-cafe-are-well-worth-the-drive-to-hip-donelson/article_70b9ee85-652b-5f96-8fed-72d363664138.html
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