Native Nashvillian and third-generation restauranteur Sophia Vaughn starts her day at 3 a.m. She gets dressed, brushes her teeth and walks two streets over from her house in the Hope Gardens ...

Silver Sands Cafe at Locklayer Street was forced to shut down earlier this month when Metro Codes learned a grease vent on the back of the restaurant was dangerously close to a new home next door.

New construction towers over the decades-old Nashville meat and three Silver Sands Cafe. Vaughn and her eight employees had their hands tied, unable to serve up the soul food that Silver Sands has ...