King Fish

Nashville Restaurants and FoodKing Fish708 Monroe Ave. NorthNashville615-242-5700The fish sandwich business has apparently become so red hot in Nashville that there is a bit of a fish war developing between area restaurants. I love hot fish, so I’ll jump into the deep water and start reviewing some of the better joints. I’m going to start with one of the newer kids on the block. King Fish is hard

Bad Ideas in Marketing: Flood

Bad Ideas in Marketing Part FourYou may have seen the artist renderings of the Signature Tower building in Nashville. The pictures used on the company web site provide an interesting, and believable, look at how the building will appear on the Nashville skyline. Yesterday, I was thumbing through my wife’s June copy of Gourmet magazine, when I noticed this ad for the Signature Tower on page 111.

Bad Ideas in Marketing

Bad Ideas in MarketingPart threeI have checked and I don't think this sign fell down this way. So, that begs the question...why is it upside down? The business doesn't exist anymore. Maybe this was their way of saying goodbye? Or perhaps it was intended to make people look, kind of like an upside down newspaper ad. Either way, it seems like another Bad Idea in Marketing.

Bad ideas in marketing: Riding Moors

Bad Ideas in MarketingPart TwoThis is either one of Nashville's best hidden tourist attractions or another bad idea in marketing.

Bad Ideas in Marketing: No pizza here

Bad Ideas in MarketingPart OneEd's Fish and Pizza House has several signs featuring their name. Which may be one reason they don't want to change their name, despite the fact that they don't serve pizza anymore, a fact of which the nice chef spinning the pizza is happy to inform us. At first glance this seems like a Bad Idea in Marketing, however the more I think about it I could be wrong. My

Bro's Cajun Cuisine

Nashville RestaurantsBro’s Cajun Cuisine3214 Charlotte Ave.Nashville(615) 329-2626Monday-Thursday Lunch onlyFriday open until 8pmClosed Saturday and SundayThere’s something about a New Orleans lunch joint. It’s a friendly bustle of smiling faces and plates of steaming food. Everyone sits elbow to elbow, because there never seems to be enough room. Places like Johnny’s and Mother’s come to