The Bunganut Pig Franklin
About us
"The Pig", as it is referred to by the locals, offers great service, food, music & cheer. The Pig also offers a wide variety of activities which include live music, dancing, steel-tip darts, pool tables, corn hole boards, outdoor seating, happy hour, daily specials & trivia.
The Pig's menu offers a wide variety of healthy choice options and includes everything from fried bologna to filet mignon.
The Pig is a non-smoking, family-friendly, live music venue. We are is open to all ages with the exception of Friday and Saturday nights (after 9 pm) where one must be 21 years of age to enter.
The Bunganut Pig Pub & Eatery was established in 1986 and is located across the street from the historic Carter House at 1143 Columbia Avenue, Franklin, TN.
The establishment consists of a main dining room and bar (in the basement) styled after a classical English Pub and an open-air billiards room & sports bar on the main floor. Our lania, patio and park area features live acoustic music from 6 p.m. - 9 p.m. nightly during fair weather.
Shaded by a natural canopy of trees, the outdoor area can accommodate approximately 70 people and offers an outdoor ambiance matched by no other Franklin venue. Play a friendly game of corn hole (bean bag toss) great for young and old.
On Friday and Saturday evenings, the main dining room and bar transform into Franklin's favorite dancing venue where people of all ages boogie to dance, pop, rock & R&B cover tunes played by Nashville's most talented cover bands.
WHAT IS A BUNGANUT PIG?
THERE IS A BUNGANUT TREE, YOU SEE; AND QUEER AS IT SEEMS, ITS NUTS ALWAYS FALL UP, NOT DOWN. WHAT'S MORE, THIS SPLENDID TREE SHEDS ITS' LEAVES EACH SPRING, AND EVERY YEAR ON ITS BIRTHDAY, IT LOSES ANOTHER RING.
WELL, UNDER THIS TREE SOME MOONS AGO, A LITTER OF PIGS WAS DROPPED. THE SOW, SHE COUNTED SEVENTEEN, AND THEN BY GEORGE, SHE STOPPED. THE LAST ONE OUT LOOKED AROUND AND SPIED THE BUNGANUT TREE; HE SAID TO HIMSELF "THAT'S THE FINEST THING I HAVE EVER OR WILL EVER SEE.".
BROTHERS AND SISTERS WERE REALLY SUCH PIGS, THEY WENT FROM BAD TO WORSE; HE WENT OFF TO COLLEGE AND BECAME LEARNED, IF QUITE PERVERSE.
UPON HIS RETURN HE WENT STRAIGHT TO THE BUNGANUT TREE WHERE PEOPLE STARED AT THIS PIG WITH A MASTERS DEGREE. BUT SOON THE TOWNS FOLK CAME TO KNOW THAT HERE WAS A SPECIAL PAIR; THIS TREE WITH A SENSE OF SELF, AND THIS PIG WITH REMARKABLE FLAIR.
TOGETHER THEY OPENED A LOCAL PUB WHERE PEOPLE COULD TALK, LAUGH, LISTEN AND SHARE THEIR TROUBLES AWAY. THE PUB WAS A PLACE WHERE FRIENDS COULD MEET, AND THEIR DIFFERENCES MADE THEM DEAR, WHERE EVERYONE MARCHED TO THEIR OWN BEAT, SIMPLY ALL WERE WELCOME HERE. THIS THEN IS THE TALE AS IT WAS TOLD O'ER THE YEARS O'ER MANY A SWIG OF HOW AN UNCOMMON YOUNG PORKER AND A TREE ESTABLISHED THE BUNGANUT PIG.