Sunday, August 22, 2010

Korean Taco Joint Opens in Bordeaux

Nashville Restaurants and Food
Peter Chinn’s Korean Barbecue Taco

The Korean barbecue taco just makes sense. Any decent taco is built on flavorful meat and Korean barbecue joints know how to do meat right. Peter Chinn’s is the latest entrant in the Nashville Korean taco race. It’s a tiny take out shack on Clarksville Highway (just south of Rosa Parks) and even in the first weeks of life they’re

Wednesday, August 18, 2010

Choripan and a Medium Rare Encounter

Nashville Restaurants and Food
Argentina, El Mirador and Nica's News

Spicy, juicy and rich sausage, fresh chimichurri, a thin slice of tomato and dense, chewy bread. This Choripan has it going on at the West Nashville Farmers Market. It's a simple sandwich with every ingredient out of this world. Gitano is the sandwich craftsman for "Cuisine of Buenos Aires", basically a converted hot dog cart.

Sunday, August 15, 2010

La Antigua

Nashville Restaurants and Food
La Antigua
2600 Grandview Ave.
Nashville
615-589-1029

Update 11/11: This restaurant has closed.

Central American food is a mish mash of regional specialties and shared cuisine. You might find the same dish in four different countries and have it prepared in seven different ways. That’s why restaurants like La Antigua are a good thing for the Nashville food scene:

Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Nashville Farmers Market Restaurants Back Open

It was a busy Saturday at the Nashville Farmers Market and for the first time in a long time you could combine shopping with lunch. Some of the market house restaurants finally reopened last week. There's still plenty of work to be done in flood recovery, but it's good to see signs of life.

Nooleys, Chicago Style Gyros, B and C Market and El Burrito Mexicano are all back in business. We stopped

Sunday, August 8, 2010

Sky Blue Café

Nashville Restaurants and Food
Sky Blue Café
700 Fatherland Street
Nashville
615-770-7097
www.skybluecoffee.com

A quiet sidewalk table in the shade. A cozy dining room buzzing with diners at brunch. The Sky Blue Café has plenty of good things going for it and the second generation of the business appears to be working well. You may remember this breakfast and lunch spot from the positive review

Thursday, August 5, 2010

The Secret is Our Readers

Everyone asks how we find out about so many new and interesting restaurants in the Nashville area. We have several top-secret methods, but quite frankly the best one only requires us checking the inbox. Our readers provide the best tips of all.

The latest comes from several folks who said we needed to check out La Esquina pupuseria at 1326 Antioch Pike (just south of Harding and Antioch). It

Sunday, August 1, 2010

Fogatas

Nashville Restaurants and Food
Fogatas
5560 Nolensville Pike
Nashville
615-331-6281

Round up the family and head out- it’s time for Sunday lunch. Fogatas Mexican restaurant is bringing those families in with groups of eight and ten. It’s a leisurely affair, as the food comes out when it’s ready, and some people might spend time watching others eat. Why the wait? Perhaps it’s the homemade corn