Bounty on Broad Farm-To-Table Restaurant

For fresh, farm-to-table dinner and brunch, head to Bounty on Broad in the Broad Avenue Arts District. This is consistently on my personal list of top restaurants in Memphis. The food is just that delicious. For 2020, Bounty is open for dine-in, curbside takeout, and they've added patio tables for al fresco dining, too.

Photo provided by Bounty

Date Night, Brunch, or Group Dinner at Bounty on Broad

Bounty is at the corner of Broad and Merton in the Broad Avenue Arts District, in the restored Hanover Building, which used to be a pharmacy back in the day. It's fine dining in a casual atmosphere, 

Downstairs, you can sit at tables or at a small counter right next to the kitchen. Upstairs, you can choose from the bar or tables. There's also a small private room. The atmosphere has that refurbished-but-still-authentic feel, complete with exposed bricks and lots of wood. It feels like a place you'd go on a nice date.

Bounty's menu is in three sections: vegetables, fish, and meats. The menus change frequently, and I highly recommend ordering a bunch of different things and sharing everything. 

My Dinner at Bounty

On my first visit to Bounty with a friend, we ordered the forest mushroom salad and the pommes frites. I'm not a mushroom person, but my friend gave full approval of the salad.

I'm a fan of Bounty's fries, and an even bigger fan of the way that the goat cheese turned into a soft gooey cheese blanket for the fries. There should be more goat cheese fry blankets in the world.

Next we chose the stuffed mountain trout and the beef bavette. I had no idea what a bavette was, but the menu said "blue cheese butter" so we were pretty much going to order it no matter what. 

The bavette refers the cut of meat, similar to the flank steak, and this particular bavette had spent some time in a marinade straight from heaven. It won't be like a velvety tender filet mignon, but this one (we ordered it cooked medium) had a rich, satisfying flavor, and I'll order it again. If you're a meat lover, you should order this dish.

Bounty's upstairs dining room. Photo by Andrea Zucker.

The stuffed trout, too, was tasty. It was perfectly cooked, and the stuffing and carrots gave the whole dish a slighty sweet flavor. The carrots were dark in color, which made me wonder if there is such a thing as heirloom carrots. I'd recommend it, but curiosity will probably push me to order the salmon or seared tuna next time.

Despite being totally stuffed, we ordered dessert. We had the tapioca-pineapple pudding and the banana bread with ice cream because life is too short to share one dessert.

Maybe I'm weird, but the idea of banana bread as dessert is just…wrong. Banana bread is for breakfast. But we ordered it anyways and it was delicious, almost decadent, and perfectly dessert enough especially with the ice cream and cherry garnish. I really can't decide which was better, that or the tapioca, though, because the latter was sweet and creamy and just an all around nice thing to eat.

Gluten Free Dining In Memphis

The craziest thing about Bounty, and especially that banana bread, is something I'm purposefully sticking here at the bottom of this post: everything is totally gluten-free. Even though I had heard for months that this was the case, I kind of forgot about that while eating.

I just didn't miss the gluten, and with the exception of that fabulous banana bread, there wasn't a coconut-flour-rice-dust brick-textured bun substitute in sight. The only gluten they'll have in the place is in the beer.

I need to point out, too, that we had a ton of questions for our server, and he didn't miss a beat. He hit that perfect note of being full of information without seeming to be a know-it-all. While this can't be an every week place for most people (due to price), service like that makes it really worth while on occasion. Maybe that guy is just a prodigy, but if the servers are that well-trained and experienced on the first day, that bodes well for Bounty.

Bounty hours:

Monday and Tuesday: CLOSED
Wednesday-Saturday: 5 – until
Sun: brunch 11 - 3

The downstairs is ADA accessible, everything in the restaurant is gluten free (except for the beer they serve) and there are plenty of options for vegetarians. Bounty's Facebook page invites folks to wear jeans and bring the kids, though I'd check the menu to be sure there's something for your little one before you go. Important: Bounty is credit card only.

Go there:

Bounty
2519 Broad Avenue
Memphis, Tennessee 38112
901-410-8131

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