Urban Flats To Close and Reopen as an Independent Restaurant

Urban Flats Flatbread & Wine Co. in the Gulch is about to go from chain restaurant to independent.

The restaurant in the ground floor of the Icon building had operated as a link in the Florida-based Urban Flats chain since 2009, but the Nashville outpost's owner, Henry Hillenmeyer — a local restaurant veteran who once served as chairman and CEO of the Cooker Restaurant Corp. — announced today he is taking it independent.

The new concept will be called Music City Flats StoneOven & Bar, and Dan Latham, an Atlanta chef who has worked for Mario Batali, is helping create a new menu. (He said some of the more popular Urban Flats dishes will be updated and kept on the new menu.)

The restaurant will close this Monday, Aug. 27, with plans to reopen Sept. 7.

Check out the full press release after the jump.