Weekly Eats · Monday, August 17, 2026 · First edition
This week · Germantown
The Scene’s First Bite this week is the one to act on: phin coffee, egg coffee, and a skillet bánh mì chảo in a room built for lingering. Eater Nashville’s homepage is stale. The Infatuation logged Naked Farmer and Cauponor on Aug. 10. Today is watermelon at the Farmers’ Market.
Source: Nashville Scene, Aug. 13–19
Photo: Em and Mẹ / Nashville Scene
Two Scene First Bites in one issue. Watermelon fest was Saturday morning; food trucks in Hendersonville Saturday at 4. Next Saturday is Curry Up Now in Smyrna and the 25th Brewers Fest downtown. Naked Farmer’s Gulch room is dated Aug. 31.
The month, at a table
August 2026 — marked days have a seat at the table
Eater Nashville’s public homepage is not running 2026 local openings (latest maps are 2025). The Tennessean Curry Up URL 403’d for images; copy is from the fetched article. A Bordeaux BBQ cookoff appeared only on happeningnext and was left out. Tomato Art Fest (Aug. 7–8) is past. Momo’s street number was not in the Scene — not invented. Infatuation’s Cauponor card had no photo. The Farmers’ Market og:image was an Unsplash stock file and was not used.
Farmers’ Market · Saturday
Official market calendar: Emerald Empire Band, Joey Wilbur, 21+ watermelon drinks, Adventure Science Center, pony rides, Nashville Humane puppy truck, Nossi cooking demos, food trucks. Free parking. Do615 repeats the same hours.
Sources: Nashville Farmers’ Market, Do615
Hendersonville · Saturday
Twenty trucks, a $1,000 business-growth grant, a DJ, food-bank drive for Feed Sumner. Nashville Parent and the organizer site agree on the date. Outside Davidson County, but the closest sourced truck fest this weekend.
Sources: Nashville Parent, midtnfoodtrucks.com
Germantown
JB Pounders and Tu Trieu’s family cafe in the old Buds & Brews: phin coffee, egg coffee, bánh mì chảo, shrimp-and-congee “grits,” 10-hour yogurt. Chris Chamberlain’s First Bite is the Aug. 13–19 Scene. The name is “little one” and “mother.”
Source: Nashville Scene, Aug. 13–19
South Nashville
Alberto and Ivanna Forero: honey ricotta toast with peaches, lemon ricotta pancakes, churro waffles, mangonada smoothies, Sift croissants, Venezuelan empanadas, coffee from The Well. The Scene did not print a street number — none invented here.
Source: Nashville Scene, Aug. 13–19
Downtown
First Tennessee shop: farm plates, Faroe salmon, grass-fed steak, golden quinoa. Infatuation had not eaten there yet. A second room is dated Aug. 31 in the Gulch — see Coming.
Germantown
The Peninsula team’s 14-seat room next to Charmers: seafood for two — cured scallops, squid-ink crepe, escargot with white chocolate. Infatuation used a placeholder image; text only.
SoBro · Saturday, Aug. 22
Official site and Visit Music City: 40-plus breweries plus spirits and NA, food trucks, live music, proceeds to Nashville Humane. Eventbrite lists iHeartMedia as organizer. Same Saturday as Curry Up Now’s Smyrna grand opening.
Sources: musiccitybrewersfest.com, Visit Music City
Smyrna · Saturday, Aug. 22
First Tennessee shop, Patel family franchisees. First 250 guests get a free burrito; DJ, henna, prize wheel. Exclusive “Nash & Three.” Full bar Mortar and Pestle (Filter Kaapi, Tennessee-whiskey mortar drink). Hours 11 a.m.–8:30 p.m. Sun–Thu, until 9:30 Fri–Sat.
Source: The Tennessean, Aug. 13
The Gulch · Monday, Aug. 31
Second Nashville room, near the forthcoming Equinox. Nashville Lifestyles dated the opening; Infatuation’s Aug. 10 card still said “this fall” — the lifestyles date is the more specific one and is used here.
Source: Nashville Lifestyles