Sundy Village Restaurants in Delray Beach: What to Know

For as long as most of us have lived here, downtown Delray had an unspoken border. East of Swinton Avenue was where you took visitors, booked anniversaries, and lingered over espresso. West of Swinton was where you parked, cut through, and kept moving. That geography is quietly being rewritten this year, and if you live within walking distance of Atlantic Avenue, you are watching it happen one certificate of occupancy at a time.

The pivot point sits at the corner of Atlantic and Swinton, on a seven-acre parcel called Sundy Village. Pebb Capital completed Phase One of the campus at 22 West Atlantic Avenue, delivering 100,000 square feet of Class A office space, 30,000 square feet of retail and dining, and 268 below-grade public parking spaces. Leasing momentum brought the project to 88 percent occupancy, with another 8,500 square feet under negotiation that would push that figure above 92 percent. That is a striking absorption number for a brand-new mixed-use campus, and it is the reason the restaurants matter. Office workers and residents will fill these rooms every weekday, not just on season weekends.

Here is what that means for your Tuesday night dinner reservations.

What Is Actually Open Right Now

Barcelona Wine Bar was the first to raise the gate. It opened Jan. 17, 2026, and offers multiple outdoor seating choices at 22 W. Atlantic Ave., Suite 140. The tapas program leans Spanish and Mediterranean, and if you have been to the Miami location, the Delray outpost carries over Executive Chef Javier Narvaez. It is the first anchor a resident can actually eat at, and the patio has become the easiest way to grasp the scale of the paseo Pebb built.

Everything else on the culinary roster is either mid-buildout or opening in stages this year. The lineup features Barcelona Wine Bar, Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, Double Knot Japanese izakaya, Drinking Pig BBQ, Maman café, and Delray Beach Craft Brewing, with most venues beginning buildouts in late 2025 and openings rolling out throughout 2026.

A quick reference for what each of those actually is:

Two of those deserve a longer look, because they will change how residents use the campus.

Maman in a Cottage, Drinking Pig on Atlantic

Maman is not building out a standard storefront. The Delray location will be in a converted cottage in the Sundy Village neighborhood downtown, with an expansive outdoor seating area, from the beloved New York City chain founded by Elisa Marshall and Benjamin Sormonte. Co-founder Elisa Marshall described it in an interview as "a little house in the Sundy Village neighborhood" that "will really standout from a design standpoint and charm". The address is 40 S. Swinton Ave., which puts a morning croissant and a laptop-friendly patio directly on the historic residential block that used to feel purely residential.

Drinking Pig BBQ is the other one to watch. Chef Raheem Sealy is renowned for his fusion of slow-smoked Southern classics, including brisket, ribs, pulled pork, smoked turkey and pork belly, and bold Caribbean flavors. Those flavors will soon be available at Sundy Village in downtown Delray Beach, with a plan to open in September, at 22 W. Atlantic Ave. If you have driven to Miami for the pop-up, you will not have to anymore.

Delray Beach Craft Brewing is worth flagging for a different reason. It will open in the restored Cathcart House on Swinton Avenue. A working brewery inside a preserved historic cottage is the kind of thing that only happens when the entitlement work has been done carefully, and it is going to become a natural after-work stop for the Vertical Bridge, Industrious, and Dragonfly MRI teams already leasing across the paseo.

The Sundy House Itself

The centerpiece is not a new build. The Sundy House is the oldest structure in Delray Beach, built in 1902 and listed on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992. It is currently closed for renovation and expected to reopen in late 2026 as the centerpiece of Sundy Village.

For long-time residents, this is the piece that matters most. The Sundy House was a garden restaurant and inn for years, and losing it during construction left a real hole in the downtown fabric. Pebb Capital's Todd Rosenberg has said he hopes the full project will be completed either by the end of 2026 or at the beginning of 2027. That is a soft window, so plan your holiday reservations elsewhere and treat a spring 2027 reopening as the realistic best case.

Why the West Side Suddenly Reads Differently

There is a structural reason all of this is arriving at once, and it is not just restaurant timing. Sundy Village sits on what used to be considered the quieter half of Atlantic. The campus is being developed along the West Atlantic Avenue corridor between Swinton Avenue and Interstate 95, historically viewed as the more dormant segment of Atlantic Avenue, but the construction of Sundy Village along with other projects such as a shipping container plaza and City Center Delray may begin to activate the West Atlantic corridor.

City Center Delray is the next domino. The iconic Doc's All-American burger spot at Atlantic and Swinton will return in 2027 as part of a new mixed-use project featuring additional retail, restaurants including Bobby Van's, and office space. If you have watched Doc's sit dormant and wondered when the corner would come back, the answer is now visible on the calendar.

The Rest of Your Reservation List

Sundy Village is the story, but it is not the only new dining room in walking distance.

• Geronimo Tequila Bar and Southwest Grill at 105 E. Atlantic Ave. Geronimo brings bold flavors and high energy to Atlantic Avenue, marking Geronimo Hospitality Co.'s first expansion outside of New England, celebrating the cuisine of Santa Fe, New Mexico, with the largest selection of tequila on the East Coast.
• Table 165 in Pineapple Grove, at 165 N.E. 2nd Ave. Chef Coton Stine is building on the success of OK&M in Boynton Beach and Costa by OK&M, putting down roots inside the Pineapple Grove Arts District steps from The Ray Hotel, with a concise menu of crispy Key West shrimp, fresh catch red snapper, wagyu tenderloin tartare, and Ora King salmon pasta.
• Gabriella's Modern Italian at 40 N.E. 7th Ave., a swankier East Atlantic room with housemade pastas and a veal chop Milanese anchoring the menu.
• Bourbon Steak at The Seagate on Atlantic Avenue, featuring steaks that are slow poached in butter before being finished on a 900-degree, wood-fired grill, from James Beard winner Michael Mina.

A Calendar Worth Circling

If you want a single week to test the new geography, use the city's own event. Downtown Delray Beach Restaurant Month runs September 1–30, with more than 50 restaurants, cafés, and fast-casual spots throughout Downtown Delray Beach serving exclusive specials, including multi-course prix fixe lunch and dinner menus, happy hour offers, café deals, and cooking classes. September is also the target month for Drinking Pig, which makes the timing convenient in a way it rarely is.

One footnote for anyone who has cursed the parking situation on Atlantic. Phase Two of Sundy Village will add a 79,141-square-foot office building at 100 SE First Avenue and a 165-space garage with 3,400 square feet of ground-floor retail at 48 SE First Avenue, and the garage, developed in partnership with the City of Delray Beach, will be open to the public after 6 p.m. on weekdays and all day on weekends. That is a meaningful piece of downtown infrastructure hiding inside a private development, and it is coming online alongside the restaurants.

What to Do With All of This

The next twelve months are the interesting stretch. Barcelona is proving out the model. Maman, Drinking Pig, Double Knot, Van Leeuwen, and Delray Beach Craft Brewing are staggered through the year. The Sundy House itself is the finale. If you already live downtown, you have front-row seats to a corridor being rebuilt in real time, and the practical upside is that your Saturday routine will get shorter and better.

If you are thinking about how any of this reshapes value on your block, or you have friends asking what has actually opened west of Swinton before they visit, Kirsten Smith is happy to talk it through. Let's Connect.