Lupo Notte brings house-made pasta to Vertis Green Hills in Nashville

Lupo Notte is moving into one of Green Hills’ most closely watched restaurant addresses, taking over the former Brixx Wood Fired Pizza + Craft Bar storefront at 2035 Richard Jones Road. The new concept is set to open later this summer inside Vertis Green Hills, and its pitch is sharper than a standard neighborhood red-sauce spot: elevated Italian dining, house-made pasta, pizzas, daily specials and cocktails built for an evening crowd.

That positioning matters in a part of Nashville where diners already have polished options and familiar chains, but fewer restaurants leaning into a destination-style Italian room. Lupo Notte’s website describes the restaurant as “elevated Italian dining” with “delicious pizza” and “handcrafted cocktails,” while Southern Land Company says the menu will center on house-made pasta, pizzas, daily specials and entrees that incorporate locally sourced ingredients. Taken together, the early read is clear: this is being framed as a full-service dinner spot, not just another pizza counter with a few pastas on the side.

The setting may do some of the work. Vertis Green Hills sits at the corner of Richard Jones Road and Hillsboro Pike and includes about 85,000 square feet of commercial, restaurant and retail space along with an 18-story, 310-unit luxury residential tower. Southern Land Company has already planted other dining names in the area, including Char in The Vertis building, a Southern-style steakhouse with steaks, seafood, brunch and cocktails, and Santo, a modern Mediterranean restaurant offering lunch, dinner, happy hour and private dining. Lupo Notte will have to compete on execution and atmosphere, not just location.

There is also a sign that the project has been in motion for a while. The Lupo Notte trademark was filed on May 21, 2025, by Green Hills Mixed Use, LLC, the Southern Land-affiliated entity tied to the development. Southern Land Company says Lupo Notte is its first affiliate-owned and operated restaurant concept, a notable step for a developer that has been building out mixed-use destinations rather than running kitchens itself.

Its arrival also marks another turn in Nashville’s restaurant reshuffle. Brixx’s former Green Hills location is listed as permanently closed, and a liquidation auction for the space included a Wood Stone pizza oven, walk-in cooler, ranges, refrigerators, prep stations, bar coolers, booths, tables, bar stools and patio furniture. What replaces that footprint now looks aimed at a more refined nighttime audience, with enough pasta, pizza and bar service to make the room work from dinner through late drinks. In a corridor filling up fast, Lupo Notte is trying to read as a true destination before the first plate leaves the pass.