Green Hills' Newest Dinner Spot Is Run by the Company Behind Vertis. Its Oldest Deli Has Until June.

At 2035 Richard Jones Road, a developer that has spent 40 years building communities now seats its own dinner guests. Lupo Notte opened on September 16, 2026 at Vertis Green Hills. Southern Land Company owns and runs the restaurant through an affiliate.

On Hillsboro Circle, Noshville has had a date on the calendar since July. The New York-style deli has served Green Hills since 2005, and it will stop serving on June 30, 2027, when its lease runs out. As of this week, that leaves about seven and a half months of pastrami. Between those two addresses, the way Green Hills eats out is shifting. More of the sit-down dinner choices now sit inside a single building on Hillsboro Pike, and one of them is run by the developer whose flagship community it is.

Why Southern Land decided to cook

The restaurant came out of a vacancy. Southern Land's June announcement explained that a previous restaurant inside Vertis had closed. Company leadership spent months looking at outside operators to fill the space. In the end they decided their own hospitality team, paired with a clear plan for the room, was the better choice. Southern Land wrote that it wanted a concept to serve "not only residents of Vertis but also the entire Green Hills neighborhood."

Running a dining room wasn't new to the company. It already owns and operates the dining at Westhaven Golf Club in Franklin. Lupo Notte is its first full-service restaurant open to the general public.

The team it put in place is mostly local:

• Executive Chef Owen Lane most recently worked as executive sous chef at Pastis. He also cooked at Audrey and June in East Nashville and at The Boardroom inside Westhaven. He grew up on a family farm in Leiper's Fork.
• General Manager David Rehrmann has led A Voce in New York City and Modern Italian and Zuzu in Nashville.
• The concept was developed by Southern Land hospitality executive Alex Cauchon, founder and CEO Tim Downey and senior culinary director Paul Sale. The menu was created with Westhaven Golf Club chef Manlio Melloni.

According to the opening announcement Visit Nashville published, the menu is built around shareable plates like wagyu beef carpaccio and the signature Lupo meatballs. It also has seafood entrées, house-made pasta and 12-inch pizzas from a three-deck oven. The wine list leans Italian. Downey's goal for the room, as he put it in that release:

"Every detail has been carefully considered, from the menu to the design to the service, with the goal of creating an everlasting upscale dining destination that serves this community and all of Nashville for generations."

Six weeks after opening, FOX 17's October 31 roundup of new Nashville restaurants described handmade pasta, Neapolitan-style pizza, aperitivo-style cocktails and a warm, dimly lit dining room. Dinner runs from 5 to 10 p.m. Sunday through Thursday and from 5 to 11 p.m. on Friday and Saturday. You can reserve through the Lupo Notte website.

Four kitchens in one building, each keeping its own hours

Lupo Notte joins three other restaurants that Vertis lists in its retail directory: Char, True Food Kitchen and Santo. Their menus overlap less than you'd expect from four restaurants in one building, and their hours differ more. That matters most on Sunday nights and for early dinners.

Read across the table and each restaurant covers a different part of the day. Santo's happy hour runs from 4 to 6 p.m., so it's the earliest dinner seat in the building on weeknights. Its menu includes house-made pasta, spiced lamb, oysters and flatbreads. On weekends, Char's menu serves brunch until 2 p.m. Lunch runs daily until 4 p.m., and dinner picks up at 4. True Food Kitchen opens at 10 a.m. on Saturdays and Sundays and takes reservations by phone or online.

On Sunday evening, Santo is closed and three of the four kitchens are still serving. Lupo Notte takes the latest seating of the group, until 10. On Friday and Saturday, Lupo Notte, Char and True Food Kitchen all serve until at least 10 p.m., and Lupo Notte keeps going until 11.

Noshville's countdown on Hillsboro Circle

The same few blocks are losing a restaurant with a much longer local history. Noshville started on Broadway in Midtown. In Green Hills, it has been the last location standing for years:

1. 1996: The original Noshville opens at 1918 Broadway in Midtown.
2. 2005: The Green Hills restaurant opens.
3. 2007: Locations open in Cool Springs and at Nashville International Airport. Both have since closed, the airport counter after 14 years.
4. 2015: The Midtown original closes.
5. June 30, 2027: The Green Hills location at 4014 Hillsboro Circle, the last one, is scheduled to close when its lease expires.

The owners told The Tennessean in July that rising costs, more restaurant competition and trouble hiring staff led to the decision. They chose to "go out on a high note." That paper also called the Midtown original a "high-energy hotspot for celebs and thousands of others" in its early years.

Those three pressures are the same ones a new restaurant faces, and they help explain the Vertis story. A developer running a restaurant inside its own flagship community, with a hospitality team already handling Westhaven's dining, stands in a different spot than an independent operator whose lease is up for renewal. Lupo Notte and Noshville are open within a few minutes of each other this fall, under very different arrangements.

The Noshville name will outlast the restaurant. Nashville Post reported that the owners sold the business's name to Ben Weprin, founder and CEO of the Nashville-based firm AJ Capital Partners. That company is turning the former Belle Meade Plaza site into the mixed-use Belle Meade Village, whose first buildings are slated to open in 2028. For now, the Hillsboro Circle dining room is the only place to order from the Noshville menu, and it has a fixed end date.

The next name on Hillsboro Pike

The next change on Hillsboro Pike looks like a daytime café, not another dinner room. In February, What Now Nashville reported that La La Land Kind Cafe filed a permit for a second Nashville location at 4012 Hillsboro Pike. Its first Nashville store is in 12South.

Founder and CEO Francois Reihani started the café in Dallas in 2019 as a brick-and-mortar offshoot of La La Foundation. The cafés provide paid internships for young people leaving foster care. The chain has grown to 18 locations in Texas, nine in California and three in Arizona. Its menu centers on drinks like the upside-down latte, lavender bloom and French toast latte, with toasts such as truffle burrata and avocado.

Put those together and Green Hills is starting to fill different parts of the day in different places. Vertis now holds four kitchens covering lunch through late dinner. A new café concept has filed for space a few doors down Hillsboro Pike. And the deli that served Green Hills for more than two decades has a firm last day on the calendar.

Where restaurants open and close tells you which corners of Green Hills are in demand, and what that means for a home's value is something Jessica follows closely. If you own in Green Hills and want to know how your address fits into a stretch of Hillsboro Pike that keeps changing, Jessica Cassalia can walk you through it. Request a Free Home Valuation, and plan your next dinner at Vertis, or one more Noshville lunch, around it.