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ISO: ISO Good hometown-type places to eat in Nashville. MCM? :o)
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music-city-missy
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OMG - SO many
when are you coming? I am an empty-nester after this weekend. DD leaving for college in Mississippi and DH is in Portland, OR.
So let's see:
Arnold's - going to be on Diners Drive Ins and Dives, is a RoadFood favorite. I think it's overrated and last time I ate there it was SALTY and I LOVE salt.
Loveless Cafe - of course it's world famous and there isn't a magazine that hasn't featured it. The food is okay and it's a fun place though it's a little far out from downtown
Monell's - the original Germantown location - is family style and they sit people together that don't know each other. Can be fun. Food is okay. Fried chicken is good and the salads are good. Saturday night is the best even though it's a little more expensive but it has catfish, meatloaf and pulled pork.
Sylvan Park - ok
Swett's is also famous but I wouldn't eat there because of some things I know and I would advise you not to go there
My preferences are a little lesser known places:
At the Table - soul food joint but he makes his stuff from scratch and from the farmers market instead of cans when he can
Wendell Smith's - this is a gem, very old and good food. Sells tomatoes and stuff on the counter for customers.
Blind Pig 55 - okay this is a new joint that is known for bbq but the sides were more than interesting and they were good - I'm dying to go on Sunday when they have fried chicken. They do have chicken fried steak
My favorite place of all, Dairy King, was lost in the flood and the city won't let them rebuild in their old location so they are in the process of renovating a space up the road but it won't be ready any time real soon I fear.
Again, a bbq joint but B&C Market BBQ just reopened at the Nashville Farmers Market House and they have KILLER CRACK grits - I call them that because they are so addictive that they sell a refillable grits bowl. But they have sides and usually a couple of meat selections
Let me know when you are coming and I'll try to remember some more places. Also depends on when you are trying to dine as some are not open nights and a lot of them aren't open weekends.
OH - Iron Pork Chop - we eat there quite often for lunch
Vittles, City Cafe East, I love the veggies at Tex's BBQ.
when are you coming? I am an empty-nester after this weekend. DD leaving for college in Mississippi and DH is in Portland, OR.
So let's see:
Arnold's - going to be on Diners Drive Ins and Dives, is a RoadFood favorite. I think it's overrated and last time I ate there it was SALTY and I LOVE salt.
Loveless Cafe - of course it's world famous and there isn't a magazine that hasn't featured it. The food is okay and it's a fun place though it's a little far out from downtown
Monell's - the original Germantown location - is family style and they sit people together that don't know each other. Can be fun. Food is okay. Fried chicken is good and the salads are good. Saturday night is the best even though it's a little more expensive but it has catfish, meatloaf and pulled pork.
Sylvan Park - ok
Swett's is also famous but I wouldn't eat there because of some things I know and I would advise you not to go there
My preferences are a little lesser known places:
At the Table - soul food joint but he makes his stuff from scratch and from the farmers market instead of cans when he can
Wendell Smith's - this is a gem, very old and good food. Sells tomatoes and stuff on the counter for customers.
Blind Pig 55 - okay this is a new joint that is known for bbq but the sides were more than interesting and they were good - I'm dying to go on Sunday when they have fried chicken. They do have chicken fried steak
My favorite place of all, Dairy King, was lost in the flood and the city won't let them rebuild in their old location so they are in the process of renovating a space up the road but it won't be ready any time real soon I fear.
Again, a bbq joint but B&C Market BBQ just reopened at the Nashville Farmers Market House and they have KILLER CRACK grits - I call them that because they are so addictive that they sell a refillable grits bowl. But they have sides and usually a couple of meat selections
Let me know when you are coming and I'll try to remember some more places. Also depends on when you are trying to dine as some are not open nights and a lot of them aren't open weekends.
OH - Iron Pork Chop - we eat there quite often for lunch
Vittles, City Cafe East, I love the veggies at Tex's BBQ.
melissa-dallas
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O.K. Missy, I've just got to know about Killer Crack Grits.
Let us in on the secret as to what is in them or what is so good?
Let us in on the secret as to what is in them or what is so good?
sarah-in-charleston
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Yeh, me too.
music-city-missy
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Here's something from the newspaper today on non-touristy places to take people
The hot chicken and hot fish are soul food joints and something I think pretty darn unique to Nashville. I love Yazoo beer even though I am not a beer fan. Las Paletas has been written up in New Yorker, Washington Post and all if I recall correctly - they are INCREDIBLE - even Bobby Flay was blown away by her Mexican popsicles. There really are a lot of fun places around here - not just meat and three.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=DN&Dato=20100730&Kategori=FEATURES01&Lopenr=7300801&Ref=PH
The hot chicken and hot fish are soul food joints and something I think pretty darn unique to Nashville. I love Yazoo beer even though I am not a beer fan. Las Paletas has been written up in New Yorker, Washington Post and all if I recall correctly - they are INCREDIBLE - even Bobby Flay was blown away by her Mexican popsicles. There really are a lot of fun places around here - not just meat and three.
http://www.tennessean.com/apps/pbcs.dll/gallery?Avis=DN&Dato=20100730&Kategori=FEATURES01&Lopenr=7300801&Ref=PH
music-city-missy
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I don't know what they do - they are just great even if you don't particularly like grits
a friend of mine from culinary school is one of the owners. I am not sure what they do but they are incredible. Fluffy baked grits. They always have garlic cheese and then a flavor of the day - might be pizza flavored or taco flavored or whatever strikes them. I've never had grits this good and I can't seem to duplicate them. I'm going to have to see if I can't get them to tell me what they do or go to one of their former employees I know and see if I can get them to tell me. I had a non-grit lover try some the other day when they brought them for one of our meetings about getting them all back up (the Farmers Market was flooded and we are just now getting the market house with the restaurants back open this week). Even she was having a fit over them and got everyone that came in the room to try them.
a friend of mine from culinary school is one of the owners. I am not sure what they do but they are incredible. Fluffy baked grits. They always have garlic cheese and then a flavor of the day - might be pizza flavored or taco flavored or whatever strikes them. I've never had grits this good and I can't seem to duplicate them. I'm going to have to see if I can't get them to tell me what they do or go to one of their former employees I know and see if I can get them to tell me. I had a non-grit lover try some the other day when they brought them for one of our meetings about getting them all back up (the Farmers Market was flooded and we are just now getting the market house with the restaurants back open this week). Even she was having a fit over them and got everyone that came in the room to try them.
cynupstateny
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We had a dish called Killer Grits in North carolina.
Bacon, cheddar, shrimp and so creamy you just knew if God made anything better he kept it for himself (as my aunt says)
We could feel our arteries hardening as we ate it, but oh sooooo gooood.
Bacon, cheddar, shrimp and so creamy you just knew if God made anything better he kept it for himself (as my aunt says)
We could feel our arteries hardening as we ate it, but oh sooooo gooood.
Thanks Melissa - good timing... but I'm not coming, it's my sister. She's the
traveler in the family. Both she and her dh are retired teachers, lots of time, and money burns a hole in her pocket! Then off to Las Vegas, Hawaii, and back in time to go to South Carolina for the second half of the winter.
Thanks for the suggestions! They aren't going to one place they wanted to because of the floods, and they will be there 5 or 6 days.
traveler in the family. Both she and her dh are retired teachers, lots of time, and money burns a hole in her pocket! Then off to Las Vegas, Hawaii, and back in time to go to South Carolina for the second half of the winter.
Thanks for the suggestions! They aren't going to one place they wanted to because of the floods, and they will be there 5 or 6 days.
music-city-missy
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Where were they wanting to go?
About the only thing not open is the Opryland Hotel and Oprymills Mall and trust me, as far as eating, they aren't missing anything there IMHO. Opryland Hotel was always somewhere we took people though - it was spectacular. Depending on when they are coming, it might be open - they are pushing hard to get things back open out there.
OH - tell them to take advantage of the fact that the Grand Ole Opry has been relocated back to the historic Ryman Auditorium. They typically move it back every November until February. It is SO much better at the Ryman. So intimate. An experience you will never forget even if you aren't a country music fan. My husband doesn't like country music but would tell you that it's an experience you have to have and at the Ryman it's a thousand times better.
OH - the symphony hall is not back open and that is spectacular too. But everything else is pretty well open.
Not sure what other foods they like but I just heard that we were rated one of the top drinking cities in the country along with the big ones. We have a couple of cool cocktail bars/restaurants that are very retro like old speak easies in a way. Patterson House and Holland House.
Bluebird Cafe to hear great music - it's the actual song writers that write the hits and sometimes they are better than the artists that record them.
Definitely hit downtown Franklin - the square, cool shops, civil war history all around.
Oh and right now we have a wonderful Chihuly exhibit - part of it as at the Frist Art Museum and the other part at Cheekwood Mansion and Gardens and is beautifully lit at night.
About the only thing not open is the Opryland Hotel and Oprymills Mall and trust me, as far as eating, they aren't missing anything there IMHO. Opryland Hotel was always somewhere we took people though - it was spectacular. Depending on when they are coming, it might be open - they are pushing hard to get things back open out there.
OH - tell them to take advantage of the fact that the Grand Ole Opry has been relocated back to the historic Ryman Auditorium. They typically move it back every November until February. It is SO much better at the Ryman. So intimate. An experience you will never forget even if you aren't a country music fan. My husband doesn't like country music but would tell you that it's an experience you have to have and at the Ryman it's a thousand times better.
OH - the symphony hall is not back open and that is spectacular too. But everything else is pretty well open.
Not sure what other foods they like but I just heard that we were rated one of the top drinking cities in the country along with the big ones. We have a couple of cool cocktail bars/restaurants that are very retro like old speak easies in a way. Patterson House and Holland House.
Bluebird Cafe to hear great music - it's the actual song writers that write the hits and sometimes they are better than the artists that record them.
Definitely hit downtown Franklin - the square, cool shops, civil war history all around.
Oh and right now we have a wonderful Chihuly exhibit - part of it as at the Frist Art Museum and the other part at Cheekwood Mansion and Gardens and is beautifully lit at night.