Scroll through any recent list of what's new in Delray Beach and you'll find the same six names stacked together like they're all taking reservations this week: Barcelona Wine Bar, Drinking Pig BBQ, Double Knot, Maman, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, Delray Beach Craft Brewing. Treat that list as a menu and you'll drive to the corner of Atlantic and Swinton expecting six kitchens working at once. As of this August, one of them is actually cooking.
That corner is Sundy Village, the seven-acre campus that Pebb Capital and architecture firm Gensler have been building at Atlantic and Swinton since a 2023 groundbreaking. If you already live here, you don't need a primer on what it is. What you need is an honest answer to a simpler question: which of these six is actually worth planning a Tuesday around, and which are still just a lease agreement with a good publicist.
The One That's Actually Open
Barcelona Wine Bar opened at 22 West Atlantic Avenue on January 17, 2026, the first full-service restaurant to occupy Sundy Village and, seven months later, still the only one doing regular dinner service. Executive Chef Javier Narváez, who came over from the brand's Miami location, prints a new menu daily instead of settling into one fixed lineup, though a core rotation stays reliable: croquetas with jamón and Manchego, patatas bravas, boquerones, and several paellas. The wine list runs more than 400 bottles with roughly 40 available by the glass, an unusually deep pour list for a restaurant that just passed its half-year mark. It's open seven days, with hours that stretch late on weekends, Friday until 1 a.m. and Saturday until 2 a.m., which matters if you're the type who eats dinner after a sunset walk rather than before it.
The One With an Actual Date
Drinking Pig BBQ is next, and it's the only other name on the list with a real target attached to it. Reporting this year has the restaurant working toward a September opening at Sundy Village, bringing oak-smoked meats layered with Caribbean and Asian influence, jerk-spiced brisket among them, to a stretch of downtown that has never had a dedicated barbecue kitchen before. The name isn't unfamiliar to anyone who follows the region's barbecue scene closely. Drinking Pig served food at the Smoke & Sunshine craft barbecue meetup at Tropical Smokehouse in West Palm Beach back in January 2024, so this isn't a concept parachuting in cold. It's a Miami-rooted operator that's been building a following in this corner of Florida for a couple of years before finally locking in a permanent address.
The Three That Keep Getting Announced
Everything past those two is a signed lease, not a table. Double Knot, the Japanese izakaya concept from chef Michael Schulson known for its Philadelphia flagship and Wynwood location, has filed permit applications for a Delray Beach outpost, but as of this spring the restaurant group hadn't attached an opening date to it. In its other locations, Double Knot runs as a craft coffee spot by day and a sushi and small-plates izakaya by night, so if that dual format carries over here, it's a different kind of restaurant depending on what time you walk in. Maman, the French bakery brand with a cult following in New York, signed its lease at Sundy Village months ago and still hasn't locked in a month. Van Leeuwen Ice Cream is doing the same, a scoop shop with a lease but no announced opening. Delray Beach Craft Brewing is the most tied down of the three, at least architecturally: it's taking over the restored Cathcart House on Swinton Avenue, one of the historic homes Pebb Capital preserved rather than demolished when it took over the site. Its opening depends on the pace of that restoration, not a construction schedule anyone controls on a normal timeline.
| Restaurant | Status as of August 2026 | What's confirmed |
|---|---|---|
| Barcelona Wine Bar | Open since January 17, 2026 | Daily-changing menu, 400+ bottle wine list, croquetas and paella in steady rotation |
| Drinking Pig BBQ | Targeting September 2026 | Oak-smoked meats, jerk-spiced brisket, already known locally from West Palm Beach barbecue events |
| Double Knot | Permits filed, no date set | Izakaya from chef Michael Schulson, coffee by day and sushi by night at its other locations |
| Maman | Lease signed, no date set | French bakery and café |
| Van Leeuwen Ice Cream | Lease signed, no date set | Ice cream scoop shop |
| Delray Beach Craft Brewing | Tied to Cathcart House restoration | Independent brewery inside a preserved historic home |
Behind all of it sits the reason the timeline keeps stretching. The Sundy House at the center of the campus was built in 1902 and has been listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992, making it the oldest structure in Delray Beach. It's currently closed for a full restoration, and full campus completion, including that reopening, isn't expected until late 2026 or early 2027 at the earliest. That's a restoration schedule, not a restaurant schedule, and it explains why half the announced roster still doesn't have a month attached to it.
The name itself is part of the same story. Pebb Capital originally floated the working title Midtown Delray before settling on Sundy Village to honor the historic house at its southern edge.
"It's a village, not a town. That's a different vibe."
That's Todd Rosenberg, Pebb Capital's co-founder, explaining the shift. It's a small detail, but it tells you the developer is treating the historic preservation piece as the point of the project, not a plaque bolted onto new construction after the fact.
Downtown Didn't Pause to Wait
None of this touched the restaurants that were already full before anyone broke ground. Doc's All American, the storied burger and ice cream stop sitting almost directly across the street from part of the new campus, kept serving its regular crowd straight through Phase One completion, Phase Two groundbreaking, and every headline in between. Deck 84 is still the only restaurant in town with true dock-and-dine access for boaters coming in off the Intracoastal, a detail that has nothing to do with what's under construction a few blocks west. City Oyster kept its usual dinner rush going the entire time.
The Delray Beach Downtown Development Authority ran its 17th annual Savor the Avenue this past March, closing Atlantic Avenue to traffic for one of the longest dining tables in the country, with participating restaurants serving four-course meals and competing for a "Best in Show" tablescape. That event has been running since long before anyone broke ground west of Swinton, and it isn't waiting on Sundy Village to fill in before it books its next edition. The Downtown Development Authority also runs Art & Jazz on the Avenue three times a year, rotating through Pineapple Grove, West Atlantic Avenue, and Beachside, a calendar that has nothing to do with which restaurant just signed a lease. A few blocks north, Pineapple Grove kept its own rhythm too. The Dancing Pineapple mural is still one of the most photographed spots in town, and Arts Garage is still booking its usual run of jazz, blues, funk, and Latin acts regardless of what's happening one street over.
So What Do You Actually Do This Month
If you want dinner tonight, Barcelona is the table. If you want to watch for the next real opening, September is the month to check for Drinking Pig BBQ. Everything else attached to Sundy Village right now, the izakaya, the bakery, the ice cream, the brewery, is worth knowing about, just not worth building a Tuesday around yet. And if you haven't crossed Swinton in a while just to see what's actually built there, walking distance from wherever you already eat dinner, this is a reasonable month to do exactly that.
We keep a list like this because our clients ask us where to eat before they ask us about square footage, and knowing this stretch of Atlantic Avenue well enough to tell you what's actually open, not just what's been announced, is part of the job. The Jack Elkins Team has spent years watching this coastline closely enough to know the difference. If you want that same read on any other corner between here and Palm Beach, reach out anytime.
