The Bottega at Frankies Opens in East Nashville | Eater Nashville
"Located at 921 Cherokee Avenue, the new specialty Italian market quietly opened on February 2 and offers an assortment of prepared foods and products from Italy as well as regions closer to home, joining Frankies 925 Spuntino, the Pizzeria, and the Big Hall at Frankies as part of the brand’s rapid expansion. The space is the brand’s first permanent bottega after the team initially tested a grab-and-go model at one of their Brooklyn restaurants during the pandemic; its design echoes Frankies’ other outposts thanks to antiques and eclectic finds sourced by co-founder and local owner-operator John Burns Paterson, whose Alabama roots add a Southern influence—country hams are incorporated into the salumi program and there’s a custom floor-art installation by his Birmingham-born mother-in-law. A large window behind the counter gives guests a front-row seat to Frankies’ pasta-making operation. Shelves carry culinary products shipped from Italy, Spain, and France as well as artisans as nearby as North Carolina, including Rodolphe Le Meunier Salted Butter from France, I Contadini La Gialla (yellow tomato sauce) from Puglia, tinned Conservas Braseadas seafood from Asturias’ Restaurante Güeyu Mar, Lady Edison Country Ham out of North Carolina, and fresh pastas from the Frankies Nashville culinary team. Paterson says they’re excited about the deli case of cured meats—ordering from a salumi counter is intended to be a nostalgic experience—and the shop also stocks the Frankies 457 Specialty Foods line with jarred olives and olive oils made from Castelvetrano olives grown on the chefs’ farm in Selinunte, Sicily. The Bottega is open Wednesday through Sunday from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m." - Jackie Gutierrez-Jones
