Where to Eat
You may have this idea that Nashville cuisine is 5-alarm hot chicken, an endless basket of biscuits, excellent barbeque, a Willy Wonka waterfall of sweet tea, and enough banana pudding to land a high dive into. And you’re not wrong. But the thing is, Nashville’s ever-expanding food scene brings with it such variation and excellence that one would have to work hard to a.) ever experience all of it or b.) ever grow tired of it. Between the hallmark restaurants that exemplify the best of Nashville cooking and all of the new kids on the block, dining delights await you at every turn. Nashville Hot Chicken has become something of a national phenomenon in the past few years. When KFC knocks you off, you know you must be doing something right. There are so many excellent options to light your taste buds on fire that
it would be impossible to pick only one. Party Fowl, Prince’s, Bolton’s, and Hattie B’s each have their devotees and it would be all but impossible to pick a favorite. The only warning I can give you is this: Pack your antacids! There’s another peculiarly Southern dining concept you may run into: the Meat and Three. It’s a fairly simple concept of two menus, one with meat selections and the other with an enormous list of side dish options. White-tablecloth fine dining this is not. But you’ll get to experience the widest variety of greens and vegetables the Southern table has to offer. Among the best known are Arnold’s Country Kitchen (605 Eighth Ave. South) and Wendell Smith’s (407 53rd Ave North). Two Nashville institutions merit their own category: The Originals. I speak of Monell’s and The Loveless Cafe. In short, if either
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