 Founder Amy Kurland opened the doors of The Bluebird Café in June 1982 at 4104 Hillsboro Pike in Nashville, Tennessee.The location had already been home to a game room, a bar, a pizza parlor, a sewing machine store, a pharmacy, and Manookian Brothers Oriental Rugs.Kurland intended it to be a gourmet restaurant in which patrons would have the opportunity to occasionally listen to live music.