HENDERSONVILLE – Caffé Rel, a French-Italian fusion restaurant on Hendersonville’s Main Street, is closed, after a little more than a year in business.
It opened in May 2025 as a second location to the original Caffé Rel, a Franklin landmark founded in 2003 and housed in a gas station in Macon County, around 90 minutes away from Hendersonville.
“I think we just didn’t have the following that we have in Franklin. People didn’t know us and they didn’t know our food,” Katie Passmore, who owns the restaurant with her husband, Tracy Passmore, told the Times-News July 9…