Grins Vegetarian Cafe — positioned on the Vanderbilt College campus and billed as Nashville’s first licensed kosher restaurant of its sort — will stop operations after Friday, April 17.
The looming closing, introduced by way of social media, will come after the cafe shut down on the finish of March for what apparently was to have been simply two weeks.
“Sadly that is goodbye from Grins, we now have LOVED serving y’everywhere in the years and thanks for every part y’all have given again to us,” Grins posted on Instagram.
Grins (pronounced “greens”) is owned and operated by Nashville-based Bongo Productions Inc., which additionally owns espresso roaster and native cafe chain Bongo Roasting Firm.
For 29 years, the Hillsboro Village spot has given Nashvillians someplace to take a seat and keep
Bob Bernstein, Bongo Productions founder, says it’s unlikely he’ll search a brand new location for Grins, and he’ll as a substitute deal with Bongo Java.
“It is a part of my slowing down and specializing in the coffee-roasting operation — of which we’re quickly to introduce a Bongo branding refresh and a second complete model — affiliated operations, the unique cafe (on Belmont Boulevard) and our actual property holdings,” Bernstein tells Scene sister publication the Nashville Submit by way of e-mail.
Opened in 1998, Grins operated by way of the Ben Shulman Middle for Jewish Life at 2421 Vanderbilt Place. It seemingly was Nashville’s longest-operational vegetarian restaurant.
The closing comes as Bernstein prepares to shut Fido in Hillsboro Village in mid-2028, when the cafe enterprise’s lease expires.
This text was first printed by our sister publication, the Nashville Submit.
