by Getahn Ward

A St. Louis-based celebrity chef is bringing his causal Italian concept to Nashville with a location that should open next summer at the OneC1TY mixed-use campus on Charlotte Avenue. Pastaria Nashville will be James Beard Foundation Award-winning chef Gerard Craft's first restaurant outside of his adopted Missouri hometown and the second location under that Italian concept.

Craft said Nashville has been on his radar for a while. "It's a city that shares a lot of the same values as St. Louis," he said in a statement. "We knew that if we were going to expand beyond St. Louis that it needed to feel right, and we feel that Pastaria now has a place to call home in Nashville."

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