Loyalty is easy to spot at Nashville’s Calypso Cafe, where diners line up before lunch and leave with gallons of fruit tea and the same orders they’ve been placing for nearly four decades.
Soon, they’ll be able to do that at another familiar address, when the longtime restaurant known for its Caribbean flavors and health-forward fare reopens its Charlotte Avenue outpost for dine-in service. The restaurant closed as a result of the COVID-19 pandemic.
That move fulfills a promise David Parker — a cousin of Calypso founder Allison Brooks — made when he and his wife took over the restaurant in early 2025, a decision that began with a casual conversation at a family wedding…