How to Book Alla Vita in Nashville
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Alla Vita Nashville is four weeks old. Boka Group opened its second Alla Vita on June 13, 2026 at 523 Houston Street in Wedgewood-Houston — not the Gulch, not 12South — with Michelin-starred Lee Wolen’s menu and an OpenTable page already logging a hundred-plus bookings a day. This is the get-in-early window, documented.
Boka Comes to WeHo
The Chicago original earned its keep in Fulton Market; Nashville’s edition landed in the Wedgewood Village development with the same thesis — neighbourhood Italian executed by a group that holds a Michelin star elsewhere (Wolen’s Boka). The room is dinner-only, the valet is $15, and the reviews are four weeks deep, which is precisely why our Alla Vita review is attributed to the editorial desk and sourced from the opening — nobody honest has a year of visits to a June opening. What exists is verifiable: the menu, the team, and a booking curve already steepening.
Booking the Opening Curve
The channel. OpenTable (alla-vita-nashville), or (629) 224-1777; private dining runs through Tripleseat. The window. Monday–Saturday 4:30–10pm, Sunday to 9 — dinner only. The strategy. New-opening physics apply: weeknight 4:30–5:30 slots sit open days ahead while Friday 7:30 vanishes; book the early table now, because the curve only steepens as the reviews compound. WeHo parking is the $15 valet or a walk — plan one.
Wolen’s Opening Menu
The press-documented card: chicken parmigiana as the stated flagship, cacio e pepe ricotta dumplings, spring pea cappelletti, tagliatelle with beef-shank ragu, lasagna verdi, a San Daniele prosciutto pizza, grilled branzino and a bluefin crudo up front, with pastry chef Meghan McGarvey closing. The restaurant publishes no per-dish prices yet; OpenTable bands it $31–50 a person, and early diners note wines by the glass in the low $20s — plan Chicago-Boka economics, not meat-and-three ones.
The Nashville Play
Go now, on a weeknight, before the national press writes the same sentence — a Boka opening’s first summer is the loosest it will ever book. Order the dumplings and the chicken parm because both will be litigated in every review to come, and form your own verdict first. The city’s wider table is in our Nashville dining guide; the birthday list will re-seat this room once the reviews mature, and the get-in-before-the-guides genre’s other current entry is Sushi Kawaguchi in Osaka — February’s version of June’s opportunity.
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Related Reading
- Our full profile: Alla Vita Nashville review.
- The city: Nashville dining guide.
- New-opening timing elsewhere: Sushi Kawaguchi, Osaka.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you book Alla Vita in Nashville?
Through OpenTable or on (629) 224-1777; private dining via Tripleseat. Dinner only — Monday to Saturday 4:30–10pm, Sunday to 9. Early-evening weeknight slots are the easy door while the opening curve steepens.
When did Alla Vita Nashville open?
June 13, 2026, in the Wedgewood Village development at 523 Houston Street, Wedgewood-Houston. It is the second Alla Vita, after Boka Group’s 2021 Chicago original in Fulton Market.
Who is the chef?
Lee Wolen — the Boka Group chef whose Chicago flagship holds a Michelin star — with pastry chef Meghan McGarvey. The Nashville kitchen runs his Alla Vita menu: chicken parmigiana, cacio e pepe ricotta dumplings, tagliatelle beef-shank ragu, lasagna verdi.
How much does dinner cost?
No per-dish prices are published yet; OpenTable bands it $31–50 a person before drinks, with glasses of wine reported in the low $20s. Expect Boka economics — polished neighbourhood Italian, priced like it.
Where do you park?
The $15 valet at the door, or street-and-lot parking in Wedgewood-Houston with a short walk. WeHo is not the Gulch — build in five extra minutes the first visit.