For years, the shorthand for eating in Sylvan Park was a short list you could recite from memory: Park Cafe, Caffe Nonna, Star Bagel, Edley's, and whatever you happened to grab at McCabe Pub before or after a round. That list is still mostly intact. What has changed is where the energy sits on the map. The block at Murphy Road and 45th Avenue North, dormant for most of 2024 and 2025, is now the busiest corner in the neighborhood, and a second cluster is forming a mile north on Charlotte.
If you already live here, you have watched this happen in real time through construction fencing and permit signs. The point of this piece is to put the pieces on a single map so you can plan around them, because the summer routine that worked in 2023 will send you to the wrong block in July of 2026.
The Corner of Murphy and 45th Is Doing the Work Now
Lion's Share sits across from SuperNormal at the corner of Murphy and 45th Avenue North, in the space Old Nashville remembers as McCabe's Pub. The longtime tavern closed in 2024, and the building sat quiet long enough that a lot of neighbors stopped noticing it. Lion's Share opened Saturday, April 11, 2026, at 4410 Murphy Road, run by Chef Robbie Wilson and Emily Perry-Wilson under their 74 and Sunny Hospitality group. Wilson was a semifinalist for the James Beard Best Chef: California award before he and Perry-Wilson moved the family back to Nashville. The room is built around a custom hearth, which means most of what leaves the kitchen has been touched by live fire.
The important thing for residents is not the pedigree, it is the format. A 32-seat bar and lounge runs alongside the dining room, which gives the neighborhood something it did not have on that corner before: a real bar program you can walk into without a reservation on a Tuesday. McCabe Pub filled a certain kind of stool. Lion's Share fills a different one, and it is designed to hold a longer evening.
The other half of the corner is SuperNormal, which the same team opened a year earlier as a burger, hot dog, and soft serve counter at 105 45th Avenue North, open 11 a.m. to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday and Sunday, and until 10 on Friday and Saturday. The overflow parking area was turned into a dog-friendly artificial lawn with lights, picnic tables, and a small white building that serves the counter menu. If you have kids, a dog, or both, that lawn is the reason your weeknight dinner logistics changed this year. It is a walk-up, sit-outside format that Sylvan Park did not previously have inside its own footprint. Bobbie's Dairy Dip has been the neighborhood's outdoor eating institution since 1951, and it still is. SuperNormal is not a replacement, it is a second option on a different block for the same use case.
Read the two buildings together and the plan becomes obvious. 74 and Sunny Hospitality was the couple's reentry into the city's food scene, and Lion's Share was the group's follow-up. The pairing gives one operator two price points and two service styles on facing corners, which is why the block now anchors the neighborhood's dining calendar in a way no single restaurant did before.
A Second Front Is Forming on Charlotte
The Murphy corridor gets most of the attention, but the more consequential permit filings this spring were on Charlotte Avenue.
The Sylvan Park building that most recently housed Smokin Thighs is slated for a restaurant that appears to be called Vita 4400, with a permit filed for interior updates at 4400 Charlotte Avenue. Vita 4400 LLC, affiliated with Anthony Sanfilippo and Jake Sudduth, paid $3 million for the property in October 2023. Sanfilippo's Sorelle Hospitality acquired Strategic Hospitality's remaining stake in Pinewood Social in March 2023, so this is not a first-time operator learning the ropes on your block.
The tell is not the restaurant, it is the parcel behind it. Sanfilippo and Sudduth paid $2 million in September for an adjacent property at 4406 Charlotte Avenue, a former single-truck fire station, and the fire hall building was later demolished. Two adjacent parcels under one hospitality group, one of them cleared, is the same play the 74 and Sunny team ran on Murphy. The site is sandwiched between M.L. Rose Craft Beer and Burgers to the west and LeQuire Gallery to the east, which means the eventual buildout will connect a beer garden that has been drawing crowds for a decade to a working gallery, with a Sorelle-run concept in the middle.
The third piece of the Charlotte side is Antoinette's Wine + Provisions, opened in spring 2026 by founder Lauren Maranto as a neighborhood wine bar and bodega. It is a smaller footprint and a very different mood from Vita 4400, but it fills the same daytime-into-evening gap that used to send residents east to 12 South or Germantown for a glass of wine and a snack after work.
The Saturday Pattern Still Runs Through Richland Park
None of the above replaces the Saturday morning routine, and if anything, the new arrivals have hardened it. The Richland Park Farmers Market runs every Saturday of 2026 at 4711 Charlotte Avenue, featuring more than 80 local farmers, bakers, cheese-makers, producers, chefs, and food entrepreneurs. Hours are 10 a.m. to noon January through March, and 9 a.m. to noon April through December.
The reason the market matters for how you plan your day in 2026 is proximity. Vita 4400 is going in three blocks west of the market. Antoinette's is on the same side of the neighborhood. SuperNormal is a five-minute drive south. What used to be a single stop on Charlotte is turning into a Saturday route, and residents who plan around the market as the first stop rather than the only stop are going to get more out of the morning than those who treat it as a standalone errand.
A Realistic Sylvan Park Weekend, Mapped to 2026
If you are already living here, this is the version of the weekend that uses the block as it exists this summer rather than the one you memorized before McCabe's closed.
- Saturday, 9:00 a.m. Coffee at Star Bagel, then the Richland Park Farmers Market on Charlotte. Park once and walk. The market sits on the grounds of the Richland Park library, so the second stop is a book return.
- Saturday, 11:30 a.m. Nine holes at McCabe Golf Course, or a loop of the Richland Creek Greenway if the tee sheet is full. The greenway loops around the municipal course, so you can pick your effort.
- Saturday, 1:00 p.m. SuperNormal at 105 45th Avenue North for burgers, hot dogs, and soft serve. Take a picnic table on the yard. Dogs are the point.
- Saturday, 6:30 p.m. Bar seat at Lion's Share across the street. If the 32-seat bar is full, walk to Caffe Nonna. Both are within the same three-minute radius.
- Sunday, 10:00 a.m. Playground and fields at McCabe Park. The community center is the first LEED-certified community center in the city, which is a useful fact for out-of-town guests who ask why the building looks the way it does.
- Sunday, 5:00 p.m. Antoinette's Wine + Provisions for a bottle to take home or a glass to stay.
The point of the sequence is that everything on it sits inside the neighborhood. Two years ago, a similar itinerary would have sent you to Sylvan Supply for L&L Market or across the river for a wine bar. In 2026, the neighborhood holds the whole weekend on its own footprint.
What to Watch Between Now and Fall
Three items are worth tracking through the summer if you live here.
The first is the Sanfilippo assemblage on Charlotte. The Vita 4400 permit is filed, but the cleared 4406 lot next door is the more interesting question. Whatever goes there will define the west end of Sylvan Park's Charlotte frontage for the next decade.
The second is the neighborhood association calendar. The next SPNA monthly meeting is July 13, 2026, at 7 p.m. at the McCabe Park Community Center at 101 46th Avenue North, and a parade in Richland Park kicks off at 9 a.m. on July 3 to avoid conflict with the Farmers Market. The July 3 timing is deliberate. If you were planning to be at the market that Saturday, adjust.
The third is the block itself. Lion's Share and SuperNormal are open, but the pattern they set — one operator running two formats on facing corners with a shared outdoor yard — is the template a lot of Nashville neighborhoods will try to copy over the next two years. Sylvan Park got there first, which is unusual for a neighborhood that has spent most of the last decade being described as quiet.
The Costigan Group works with buyers and sellers across Sylvan Park, and the version of the neighborhood we describe in 2026 is not the version that was on the portals a year ago. If you are thinking about your position on the block, whether that means holding, expanding, or trading, Jack Costigan and the team are available to talk through it. Book a consultation when you are ready.
