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Dining Guide to Nashville Restaurants, Cafés, Brewpubs, & Coffeehouses
Finding a restaurant in Nashville, Tennessee has just become easier. BlueShoe Nashville's Dining Guide features an alphabetized directory of Nashville dining choices, along with restaurants organized by neighborhood and by cuisine categories. You'll also find menus online; we in the process of adding more menus to complete the directory so let us know if you're a restaurant owner or manager and would your menu included.
News on the Nashville dining and entertainment scene:
[October 6, 2008]: The Fall Harvest is coming up at the Nashville Farmers' Market Oct. 18, 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. There'll be live music and samples, along with the colorful splendour of autumn produce.
[June 13, 2008]: The American Artisan Festival is celebrating its 38th annual gathering in Centennial Park this weekend, June 13-15. This juried event is one of the most competitive in the southeast and the 170 or so artisans who made the final cut and won the right to exhibit will offer a dazzling array of jewelry, sculpture, clothing, furniture, pottery and crafts in glass, clay, metal, porcelain, wood, and fiber. Free admission. There'll be live music by the BlueBird Cafe and plenty of food vendors to satisfy your hankering for fresh-squeezed lemonade, shish kabobs, corn on the cob, and fruity sorbets. The Festival is family-friendly, so bring the kids.
[May 31, 2008]: Cranes on the Nashville skyline are an indication of the big changes going on in the city. There's major commercial construction going on in the Gulch, midtown, and downtown. On the dining scene, particularly in midtown, we're seeing some old faithfuls like Long Horn Steakhouse close their doors and leave (due to losing their lease, the newspaper report said). Just a block away, however, a new restaurant called Lime has opened its doors. Restaurateur Chris Hyndman of Virago fame is the force behind this new experiment in Mexican and Latin-inspired food. We've heard wonderful things about Lime and look forward to testing it ourselves. You can read a review of Lime here. Located at 1904 Broadway, Nashville TN 37203, 615-340-0762. Open for dinner Monday-Saturday.
[Jan. 25, 2008]: It's has a wonderful name and a brilliant idea behind it: Slow Food Nashville is part of an international movement to encourage people to rekindle their love of food by focusing on local tradition and slowing down to enjoy what is unique, wholesome, and delicious about locally-grown produce. The organization promotes and celebrates the bounty of middle Tennessee farms and traditional local cooking. In addition to working with area farmers' markets, it posts a Produce Calendar that will show when you can buy fresh vegetables and fruits that are grown in our area.
[December 22]: If you're looking for a place to go for a feast and musical entertainment this week, consider Pam Tillis' Christmas Dinner Party at the Opryland Hotel. It begins at 5:30 p.m. Dec. 22, 23, 24, & 25. See details regarding prices and reservations here.
[Nov. 2, 2007]: A limited number of Gold level ticket packages are available for next week's CMA's. These packages include dinner at Blackstone's Restaurant on West End Avenue and premium Section 204, row D (4th row) Gold level seats to the CMA Awards Show. Keith Urban, Martina McBride, George Strait, Kenny Chesney, Rascal Flatts, & the Eagles will be performing at the Sommet Center for this televised production of the 41st Awards Show.
[Sept. 30, 2007]: Muddea's Famous Chicken & Waffles will host its grand opening during the first week of October. The restaurant has been doing business and attracting a devoted following since the end of July. In the coming weeks, the owners plan to triple the size of the menu and offer more entrees, including fish and grits. The cornerstone of the cuisine remains the popular fried chicken and waffles combination that has a long and rich history, going back to the jazz clubs of Harlem in the 1930s. According to co-owner and chef Stephen Reed, quoted in a Tennessean article about the restaurant, serving the two items is a tradition that started when club customers couldn't decide whether to eat dinner food or breakfast food in the early morning hours of closing time. Muddea's is located at the corner of Metrocenter and Old Clarksville Highway at 2805 Clarksville Highway, Nashville. (615) 732-0149.
[August 16, 2007]: The 20th Annual Shakespeare Festival opens tonight at the Centennial Park Band shell with live music kicking off the festivities at 6:30 pm. The Serenatta Romantic Latin Ensemble will perform before the curtain rises on The Merry Wives of Windsor. Bring a blanket, your honey and your dog, and, of course, a picnic to enjoy this open-air production. If you're looking for food in the area, check out the offerings in Midtown Nashville. Hog Heaven is within easy walking distance of the Band shell and the Shakespeare Festival folk will offer cold drinks, food, and snacks for purchase as well.
[August 11, 2007]: Italians love it and so do Southerners. Remarkable for the variety and verve it lends to an infinite number of dishes (and delicious in its own bare, naked form), it's impossible to imagine the culinary world without this star. What is it? The TOMATO! And on Saturday, August 11, Nashville celebrates the height of the summer with a festival to THE TOMATO!
The Fourth Annual Tomato Art Fest will be held on Saturday, August 11, 2007 and includes all sorts of fun activities, live music, a tomato art show, recipe contests (including a Bloody Mary contest) and stuff for children to do. Festivities begin at 10 AM. Located in Historic East Nashville's Five Points area. The Festival's motto: The Tomato... a uniter, not a divider - bringing together fruits and vegetables.
LAPPY HOUR: The first Thursday of every month is celebrated at the Eastland Café in East Nashville with a happy hour for dog owners and their pets. Enjoy the chance to relax on the patio with like-minded souls who love both cocktails and canines. The two-legged guests enjoy drink specials while the four-legged ones devour gourmet dog treats. 4:30 to dusk.
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