OT: Good Nashville Restaurants?
Ralph F. Glaser
Can anyone recommend any good/interesting restaurants nearby (preferably
easy to find)?
Cheers, Ralph
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JOHNPEARSE
You should book as the NAMM Show attendees zone in on it.
Otherwise the Nashville food tends to be rather pedestrian...and expensive.
(Unless you're really into deep-fried catfish and grits.)
TarBabyTunes
was a brew-pub and the other a Mediterranean/Italian place, both real good.
And we found some very nice places near Vanderbilt.
I haven't been in Nashville in a while...
stv
misifus
Whatchu got against catfish and grits, boy?
-Raf (hopefully not at the same meal)
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Rafael Seibert
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Tom from Texas
>Can anyone recommend any good/interesting restaurants nearby (preferably
>easy to find)?
>
>Cheers, Ralph
>
There's a good restaurant near Cotton Music but I can't remember the name of
it. They serve a delicious Portabella mushroom sandwich.
Tom from Texas
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any slander, hurt feelings, pointless moaning, or achy-breaky heartache any
post under this name should cause. Yall want some easy cash or sympathy... ya
can kiss my grits.
Olin Murrell
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Depends on where you go. One rather famous local joint, the Loveless Cafe,
used to be a place I'd avoid like the plague... over priced, over hyped and
a little difficult to find. It's still difficult to find, but the quality of
their food has improved by an order of magnitude recently, as a result of a
new owner and a big remodeling job.
If the West End area is your bag, and you want something a tad unusual...
try Salat Tai. It's near Vanderbilt on West End.
If you're looking for good (as in TexMex style) Mexican food, there are two
excellent choices... La Fiesta, on Bell Road, just West of I-24, and Cinco
de Mayo, on Old Hickory, just North of I-40, about five miles east of the
Airport (not the Old Hickory that crosses I-40 west of downtown). Neither of
these restaurants are truly TexMex, but they don't serve technicolor
tortilla chips either. ;^)
Steve Hawkins
Sheraton!
Steve Hawkins
John Sorell
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> Geez! I can't believe you guys. There's a Waffle House real close to
> the Sheraton!
>
> Steve Hawkins
I think that is what Mr Pearce is objecting to. Way too pedestrian. We need
some place requiring that we drive.
John
Steve Hawkins
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Okay, fine! You can drive to the Cracker Barrel out by the highway! :-)
Steve Hawkins
John Sorell
Maybe we could find an IHOP or possibly an RHOP (R = Regional)?
I was a booth babe for my company at the Air Traffic Controllers
Association convention held at the Opryland Hotel several years ago. Flew
into Nashville and took a cab straight to the hotel. Never set foot out
of the damned place for four days. Then took a cab to the airport and
left. Didn't even get a chance to see the Ryman Auditorium or the
Bluebird...
John
Big Bone Bailey
>
>I was a booth babe for my company at the Air Traffic Controllers
>Association convention held at the Opryland Hotel several years ago.
>
So that was when you took up the Boa.
TW
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misifus
Go first class, Rotiers in Elliston Place.
-Raf
hobart xaxinojo
rotiers
elliston place soda shop
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Charlie
on the General Jackson Paddlewheel Showboat. I have some pics on this page
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1. http://www.492acousticblues.com/photos.html
We had an above decks 5 piece cover band when we first got on board, dinner
and then the really great stage show. Lots o' music .......
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Charlie
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John Sorell
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> John Sorell wrote:
>
>>
>>I was a booth babe for my company at the Air Traffic Controllers
>>Association convention held at the Opryland Hotel several years ago.
>>
> So that was when you took up the Boa.
>
> TW
>
It helped me sell a couple of air traffic controll computer systems. For
some reason the military didn't seem interested in talking to me.
John
Big Bone Bailey
If they reconstitute the draft, you may have a lucrative line of
seminars there, boyo.
Tony
Sleepy Fingers Jones
<urbanfo...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I'm going to be in Nashville for a few days next week (Sheraton Music City).
>Can anyone recommend any good/interesting restaurants nearby (preferably
>easy to find)?
>
>Cheers, Ralph
There's an ace microbrewery on the corner of 2nd and Broadway which
isn't exactly a restaurant, but the food is good and the beer is
something else. It's opposite the Hard Rock Cafe.
From there, the whole town centre is your oyster.
Nashville is a weird place - it's kinda diffuse. The town centre is
tiny. I'm trying to remember the name of a steak house (which is part
of a chain of restaurants) which has a strange apostrophe in it's name
(help me out here, guys) that has a branch in Nashville where I had
the second best steak I have ever eaten, and possibly the most
expensive bottle of Californian Cabernet I have ever drunk.
Someone, I hope, will know which restaurant of which I speak!
Pete
Charlie
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Charlie
- " Keepin' the Blues Alive "
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Sleepy Fingers Jones
<j.sorellS...@comcast.net> wrote:
>
>I was a booth babe for my company at the Air Traffic Controllers
>Association convention held at the Opryland Hotel several years ago. Flew
>into Nashville and took a cab straight to the hotel. Never set foot out
>of the damned place for four days. Then took a cab to the airport and
>left. Didn't even get a chance to see the Ryman Auditorium or the
>Bluebird...
You didn't miss anything...:-)
The Opryland Hotel is just amazing. What is it? 7 acres under glass or
something crazy like that?
I remember going there for a company do and we hung around for a few
drinks afterwards, and then we were told that only one exit was open
after midnight. We got lost looking for it and spent half the night
wandering around these great halls with waterfalls and G.O.K. what
else before we finally got out.
By the time we got a cab I felt like an extra from Logan's Run...
Pete
Big Bone Bailey
>By the time we got a cab I felt like an extra from Logan's Run...
>
>Pete
>
>
Well worth it to spend the evening with Jenny Agutter.
TW
Greg Z
> Okay, fine! You can drive to the Cracker Barrel out by the highway! :-)
>
> Steve Hawkins
Exactly, and there must be a Bob Evans nearby too, eh? :-)
Z
Ralph F. Glaser
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Mondoslug1
>of a chain of restaurants) which has a strange apostrophe in it's name
>(help me out here, guys) that has a branch in Nashville where I had
>the second best steak I have ever eaten, and possibly the most
>expensive bottle of Californian Cabernet I have ever drunk.
>
>Someone, I hope, will know which restaurant of which I speak!
Ruth's Chris?
Olin Murrell
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As an odd coincidence, I used to voice commercials for Ruth's Chris Steak
House. There is one on West End.
If anybody cares, the place got its name when the present owner (until her
death a few years ago) bought a joint in New Orleans called "Chris' Steak
House." Her name was Ruth Fertel, and she opted to call her new business
"Ruth's Chris Steak House," over the objection of a whole slew of business
advisers.
She had more than that going for her in the "strange business tactics"
category. She never wanted it to become a chain, and only reluctantly
allowed a few franchises and exercised what you might term a strong hand in
the running of even those few she did allow. One, in Florida, charmed a
5-star chef away from another restaurant and he made a minor change in a
recipe. When she found out about it, she hopped a plane and fired the man.
Said it didn't matter that his change might have been better than what her
original called for, it was her name over the door and nobody was gonna
change things without lobbying for it personally first.
If that was the second best steak somebody's eaten, they must have hit a
Ruth's Chris on an off night.
Sleepy Fingers Jones
Ruth's Chris it was indeed, and the steak was excellent.
It was bettered by a chateaubriand at another Nashville steakhouse
which I never knew the name of - some place which looks like a
Charleston townhouse with a verandah all the way round it and
completely staffed by black guys in DJ's. One of whom turned out to be
a Manchester United fan which endeared me to the place no end.
It had an astonishing wine list as well. I think we spent $20 on the
steak and $50 on a bottle of exquisite Clos du Bois.
It was a weird experience - top of the range food, plush surroundings,
discreet and utterly professional service - and a ball game on a 50"
TV hung over the door.
Pete
vern93
Sleepy Fingers Jones <persisten...@NOSPAM.yahoo.com> wrote:
> The town centre is
> tiny. I'm trying to remember the name of a steak house (which is part
> of a chain of restaurants) which has a strange apostrophe in it's name
> (help me out here, guys) that has a branch in Nashville where I had
> the second best steak I have ever eaten, and possibly the most
> expensive bottle of Californian Cabernet I have ever drunk.
You may have your Nashville restaurants mixed up. Our "strangest
apostrophe in a restaurant name" (tm) is the Bound'ry, but as far as I
know, it's not associated with a chain. It is, however, a source of
very expensive wine, and is considered an "industry" hangout here.
http://nashville.citysearch.com/profile/9334244/
Two other expensive but very good "chain" steakhouses are "The Palm" and
"Flemings"
Hope this helps, and don't leave town without a stroll through Earnest
Tubbs Record Shop!
Dave
Mondoslug1
Jimmy Kelly's? You're eating good man!
I've been to Ruth's Chris once - when my folks came to town & took me. lol
Merchant's on Broadway is considered pretty dang good. Never eaten there though
but it has a good rep.
Mere Bulles which used to be on Second Ave I thought had a rib eye in equal to
Ruth's but they're in Franklin now.
Mondoslug1
>In article <s43mf014hbopt0bld...@4ax.com>,
> Sleepy Fingers Jones <persisten...@NOSPAM.yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> The town centre is
>> tiny. I'm trying to remember the name of a steak house (which is part
>> of a chain of restaurants) which has a strange apostrophe in it's name
>> (help me out here, guys) that has a branch in Nashville where I had
>> the second best steak I have ever eaten, and possibly the most
>> expensive bottle of Californian Cabernet I have ever drunk.
>
>You may have your Nashville restaurants mixed up. Our "strangest
>apostrophe in a restaurant name" (tm) is the Bound'ry, but as far as I
yeah that's probably it......it's goooodd.
>know, it's not associated with a chain. It is, however, a source of
>very expensive wine, and is considered an "industry" hangout here.
>
>http://nashville.citysearch.com/profile/9334244/
>
>Two other expensive but very good "chain" steakhouses are "The Palm" and
>"Flemings"
>
yeha
JD
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|| If that was the second best steak somebody's eaten, they must have
|| hit a Ruth's Chris on an off night.
Ruth's Chris *is* pretty good but even on their best night they're still
second best in Seattle behind the Metropolitan Grill.
JD
Sleepy Fingers Jones
wrote:
. (snippage)
>
>Jimmy Kelly's? You're eating good man!
Might have been...we fetched up in a minibus and ran in through a
terrific thunderstorm & after that I just got stuck in - didn't even
occur to me to check where we were.
It was a bit like a country club inside - dark paneling, burgundy
plush seating.
Terrific, at any rate!
Pete
>
>
Olin Murrell
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Then, one of these days I shall have to drag my carcass to Seattle and
sample the Metropolitan Grill's fare. I've eaten at some awesome steak
houses, including the old Cattleman's in Fort Worth, truly an icon in its
day, and to this point in life the best I've eaten was at Ruth's Chris, in
Austin.
I'd be flabbergasted if Ruth's Chris holds its quality since Ruth Fertel
died. I never got to meet her, but oh man, the stories that were told about
her. Absolutely draconian when it came to quality control.
Sherm
<urbanfo...@earthlink.net> wrote:
>I'm going to be in Nashville for a few days next week (Sheraton Music City).
>Can anyone recommend any good/interesting restaurants nearby (preferably
>easy to find)?
>
>Cheers, Ralph
I had a great steak at Morton's there last summer. Then it was off to
see Sisters Wade with Andy Most at a cool bar.
Sherm
JD
Bern's in Tampa http://www.bernssteakhouse.com/bs_frame.htm. If there's a
better steakhouse I haven't found it.
JD
Olin Murrell
Don't know that one, and I don't get down to Florida much. I'll throw a few
others in, including one chain.
McCluskey's, in Austin, used to be one of those great steak houses that let
you choose your own cut. Tad expensive, but excellent.
The chain is Saltgrass. I've eaten at a couple of them now, and have yet to
get a bad meal. Obviously, they don't come up to the standards of the iconic
steak houses around the country, but they do NOT suck.
misifus
I have been massively underwhelmed by the Saltgrass in Ft. Worth.
I thought the food was no better than at many others, save at a
higher price, and I don't require a lecture on how to order food
in a restaurant from an arrogant, condescending twit, younger
than my children.
Olin Murrell
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Thankfully, I have not eaten at THAT Saltgrass. The one I ate at was the
Austin franchise, and I don't recall where the other one was. Granted, it's
a chain, and all that that entails, but I found it a tad higher up the food
chain than most of the others. If the Fort Worth franchise were my
experience, I'd likely feel exactly the same as you.
Mike Flanagan
I second that, with utter enthusiasm. I've eaten at my fair share of
steakhouses around the world, and Bern's is by far the best I've ever
had. Truly a mind-numbing experience. One of the few restaurants I'd
fly 1200 miles to just to eat a meal, have a good night out, and fly
back.
The same can't be said for Harris' in San Francisco or Peter Luger's
in Brooklyn.
Michael
Mike Flanagan
I had a suprisingly decent meal at the Bound'ry, which, upon walking
in, I wasn't expecting.
And don't forget Hatch Print Show as well on the tourist stop. Best
posters and postcards I know of.
Mike