Drive past the corner of Atlantic and Swinton this week and you will see cranes, scaffolding, a parking garage, and one restaurant open. That is Sundy Village, the seven-acre project that has dominated dinner-table conversation in Delray Beach for the better part of two years. As of August 2026, the project is still in the process of opening its announced businesses.
As of August 2026, one restaurant is open. The other announced businesses have not opened yet, and the historic house remains under construction.
One Restaurant, One Address
Barcelona Wine Bar opened at 22 West Atlantic Avenue on January 17, 2026, and it has spent the seven months since becoming the hardest reservation on that side of the street. Executive chef Javier Narváez, who ran the brand's Miami location before coming to Delray, prints a new menu daily rather than locking in one fixed lineup, though jamón and Manchego croquetas, patatas bravas, and a rotating cast of paellas stay in near-constant rotation. The wine list runs past 400 bottles with roughly 40 available by the glass, a pour list deep enough that it would be notable in a restaurant that had been open for years, let alone one that has been open for seven months.
That is currently the only open restaurant at Sundy Village.
Other Announced Sundy Village Businesses
In its report on Phase One, Florida YIMBY listed Van Leeuwen Ice Cream, Double Knot (a Japanese izakaya from chef Michael Schulson's Schulson Collective, which already runs locations in Philadelphia and Miami), Maman (the French all-day café founded in SoHo by Elisa Marshall and Benjamin Sormonte, taking over one of the restored cottages on the property), and Delray Beach Craft Brewing, slated to move into the restored Cathcart House, a 1902 structure with a wraparound veranda that Pebb preserved rather than demolished, among the campus tenants. The announced lineup also includes Drinking Pig BBQ. Of that group, only Drinking Pig BBQ has a stated target, aiming for a September opening. The rest do not yet have a public date.
The centerpiece of the whole project, the Sundy House itself, is the furthest out of all. Built in 1902 and on the National Register of Historic Places since 1992, it is the oldest structure in Delray Beach and is currently closed for a full restoration as the anchor of Phase Two. Multiple project updates put its reopening somewhere between late 2026 and early 2027.
The campus is opening in phases, with tenants and restoration work on different timelines.
"Completing this phase with the majority of the campus leased affirms the strategy we envisioned from the outset," Pebb Capital co-founder Todd Rosenberg said when Phase One wrapped, according to Florida YIMBY.
The quote describes leasing progress, which is separate from whether restaurants have opened and begun serving diners.
Leasing and Construction Progress
Phase One received its Temporary Certificate of Occupancy in September 2025, delivering 100,000 square feet of Class A office space, 30,000 square feet of retail and dining, and 268 underground parking spaces. At that milestone, the office and retail space was already 88 percent leased. Phase Two adds another 79,141 square feet of office space and a 165-space parking garage built in partnership with the city, with completion expected in that same late 2026 to early 2027 window as the Sundy House.
The figures show separate timelines for office space, retail, and dining. Office workers are already showing up during the day, while additional dining options at Sundy Village are still in development.
Barbecue Nearby
While Sundy Village works through its rolling schedule, a few blocks further west on West Atlantic Avenue, directly across from the fire station at 324 West Atlantic, Tropical Smokehouse has already opened its doors. It is the Delray outpost of the West Palm Beach smokehouse run by Jason Lakow with pit master Rick Mace, serving mojo pulled pork and brisket with no seven-acre master plan, no architecture firm attached to the name, and no phased leasing announcement. It just opened.
Together, the two restaurants offer dining options along West Atlantic Avenue.
Events and Restaurants in Established Downtown
While all of this has been unfolding west of Swinton, the established side of downtown never paused to wait for it. The 12th Annual Summer GreenMarket ran every Saturday from May 30 through July 25, 2026, at Old School Square, and it wrapped for the season on schedule before August even started. Savor the Avenue, now in its 17th year, closed five blocks of East Atlantic Avenue to traffic on March 23, 2026, and by every measure organizers and attendees called it the best one yet: 950 guests seated across 153 tables stretching 1,349 feet, with Rose's Daughter taking the Best in Show tablescape award for a La Festa della Donna theme designed by owner and chef Suzanne Perotto, and Lemongrass Asian Bistro finishing second. The event raised $7,000 for the Interfaith Committee for Social Services this year alone, part of more than $85,000 donated since Savor the Avenue began.
New full-service restaurants also opened on the established side of downtown. Geronimo Tequila Bar and Southwest Grill landed at 105 East Atlantic Avenue, marking Geronimo Hospitality Co.'s first expansion outside New England after years running locations in New Haven and Fairfield, Connecticut. It has already built a following with live band nights on Wednesdays and Sundays and DJ sets running late Thursday through Saturday. A few blocks north in the Pineapple Grove Arts District, chef Coton Stine opened Table 165 at 165 NE 2nd Avenue, building on the success of her Boynton Beach and Delray restaurants with a tight menu of Key West shrimp, red snapper, and wagyu tartare. Gabriella's Modern Italian brought veal chop Milanese and gnocchi pesto to East Atlantic Avenue in the same stretch.
The events and new restaurants add to the established downtown's mix of things to do.
Dining Options This Week
For dining this week, the options differ by area. West of Swinton, Barcelona Wine Bar is open at Sundy Village, with Tropical Smokehouse a few blocks farther west. East of Swinton and in Pineapple Grove, established restaurants and newer openings provide additional choices.
Next on Sundy Village's schedule, Drinking Pig BBQ is targeting a September opening, while the Sundy House reopening is expected in late 2026. Those dates offer a sense of how Sundy Village is expected to develop over the months ahead.
Delray Beach's downtown has always rewarded people who know which block to walk to on a given night. Right now, that knowledge is worth more than usual, because the map is genuinely in the middle of changing.
For those who want that kind of on-the-ground read applied to the property side of Delray Beach, from what a listing near Sundy Village might be worth once the second phase lands to how the established east side has held its value through past cycles, Brosda & Bentley Realtors is available for a private consultation whenever the conversation turns from where to eat to where to live.
