The Melrose

Nashville Restaurants and Food
The Melrose
2535 Franklin Pike
Nashville
615-712-8160
http://www.themelrose.net/

The Saturday afternoon bar crowd is a good judge of a popular place. If it’s getting crowded at 3pm that’s an indication that they stay busy most of the time they’re open. The Melrose is a bar and restaurant that clearly meets that mark. While we’ve visited a number of times in recent

Fish N Grits, Weenie Opening and Los Gordos Closing

Nashville Restaurants and Food
Fish N Grits, Weenie Opening and Los Gordos Closing

It’s tough keeping up with the restaurant world. Places open and close in the blink of an eye. So, please fasten your seatbelts…

People have been watching folks prepare a restaurant called Fish and Grits at 8th and Division. They opened up late last week and we visited Saturday night to take a look. The menu is a

The Dog of Nashville

Nashville Restaurants and Food
The Dog of Nashville
2127 Belcourt Avenue
Nashville
615-292-2204
http://www.thedogofnashville.com/

Let’s go straight to the instant replay. Walk-up and the patio is jumping: A birthday party of little girls is happily munching away, college kids brave the daylight in sunglasses and a guy dressed in khakis and a blazer sits next to his well-coiffed wife. Inside, the

Naoko’s, Karla’s, Clear Creek Smokehouse and 3 Crow

Nashville Restaurants and Food
Naoko’s, Karla’s, Clear Creek Smokehouse and 3 Crow

Farmers Markets have become a location for folks to set up shop to sell all sorts of prepared food- sandwiches, soups and desserts. Often it’s an opportunity for caterers to reach or a larger audience or aspiring restaurateurs to start-up a new concept. We had excellent snacking on Saturday at the West Nashville

Top of the Hill, Derby Party Middle Eastern and Coopers for Mother’s Day

Nashville Restaurants and Food
Top of the Hill, Derby Party Middle Eastern and Coopers for Mother’s Day

Pizza equal parts crispy and chewy, straight from a wood fired oven. House made salad dressings. And this can be found…now wait for it…in Joelton? Yeah, that was kinda our reaction as well. It’s a pretty cool development for the Joelton dining scene. We’ve been watching work on the location

Sax Deli

Nashville Restaurants and Food
Sax Deli
260 West Main Street
Hendersonville
615-265-8778
www.saxdeli.com

Update 7/12: Sax Deli has moved down the street to the City Square shopping center on West Main Street. They tell us they have much more room now, which they have needed for some time.

Restaurant simplicity: attention to every ingredient and attention to every customer. If you stay focused

A Flood Recovery Party

Many Nashville and Tennessee residents marked the anniversary of the May flood with an event this week. We can't think of a better way to celebrate recovery than visiting the newly rehabbed house of friends and then settling in with a Yazoo beer and some great food. Doug and Jennifer invited us to their flood recovery party in Old Hickory and it turned out to be one heck of a food and drink day.

Chago’s Cantina

Nashville Restaurants and Food
Chago’s Cantina
2015 Belmont Blvd.
Nashville
615-386-0106
www.facebook.com/pages/Chagos-Cantina

The Belmont restaurant row is packed with establishments, shoulder to shoulder, in the short stretch on Belmont Blvd. On a sunny weekend it’s a fine venue for strollers, joggers and dining al fresco. Chago’s Cantina is a good fit for the neighborhood. And while the menu