Joey Garrison

USA Today Network - Tennessee

Frothy Monkey, the popular Nashville coffee shop and eatery that has expanded steadily in recent years, has signed a lease agreement for a new location in The Nations neighborhood in West Nashville.

The coffeehouse and restaurant will lease space at 5016 Centennial Blvd, at the end of burgeoning 51st Avenue North, building out a space in the Stocking 51 building next to Nicky’s Coal Fired, a new pizza restaurant that recently opened.

Construction is set to begin in the next 30 to 60 days, Frothy Monkey announced Saturday, with plans to renovate more than 3,500 square feet of the building to hold 124 seats, including bar seats, small and larger community tables.

The expansion into The Nations, one of Nashville’s most booming neighborhoods, comes after Frothy Monkey last month opened its first shop in Chattanooga.

The Nations’ Frothy Monkey will offer patrons coffee, breakfast, brunch, lunch, and dinner with an expanded beverage menu that includes craft beers, wine and cocktails.

“I’ve lost track of the times that friends, and strangers for that matter, have reached out and asked if we could open a Frothy on this side of town,” said Jennifer Sheets, partner and creative director of Frothy Monkey. “It has been difficult to keep the news to ourselves, but we wanted to wait to share with everyone until after our Southside Chattanooga location was up and running.”

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Frothy Monkey’s location marks the latest addition to The Nations, a working class neighborhood near old factories that has rapidly gentrified and is now a magnet for new bars and restaurants.

It will be the brand’s fifth breakfast through dinner Frothy Monkey location, and sixth overall shop, after the flagship shop opened on Twelfth Avenue South in 2014.

Others Frothy Monkey locations are Frothy @ Grimey’s Too, a vinyl records story on Eighth Avenue; Fifth Avenue North in downtown; BAKERY by Frothy Monkey in East Nashville; downtown Franklin; and most recently Chattanooga.

Frothy Monkey's ownership says as the brand continues to grow, their intent is to invest in areas where they can be contributing neighbors.

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