Food & Drinks of Nashville

When we weren’t running 26 miles, we were eating in Nashville.  A few thoughts on the places we visited:

1)  Arnold’s Country Kitchen- This famous Meat and Three cafeteria was low on ambiance but high on southern                                                                     comfort food.  Especially the Collard Greens, Chicken Fried Steak & Fried Green Tomatoes.  

2)  Rotier’s Restaurant – French bread burgers and milkshakes in a classic family owned shop since 1945.  I opted for the grilled cheeseburger which is basically a grilled cheese with burger meat, along with a chocolate milkshake.  Amazing.

3)  Layla’s Bluegrass Inn – On the music strip on Broadway, this became our bar and music venue of choice.  We came back twice to hear the bluegrass band Jypsi.   

4)  The Loveless Cafe – 20 minutes outside of Nasvhille, on Highway 100, this motel and country kitchen is famous for biscuits & gravy breakfast and smoked BBQ pork for dinner.   We came for breakfast, but after seeing the BBQ out back, I wish we had been around for dinner.  They make fresh jam preserves to go with biscuits for breakfast.  And the gravy was a pretty nice addition to all of our meals.  

5)  Yazoo Brewery –  This was where we celebrated with a flight of beer after the marathon.  I was still trying not to pass out from the heat of the marathon, so it was a little hard to appreciate the beer, but I think the consensus favorite of our group was the Pale Ale & Dos Perros.  They had a great little tasting room and a backyard patio in what appeared to be an old warehouse or factory.  

6)  City House –  Our favorite restaurant of the trip (although Rotiers burgers put up a good fight).  Thanks to a local tipoff from Cousin Judy, we went here after the Yazoo brewery.  City House is a southern Italian kitchen with an outstanding menu of brick oven pizza, meat dishes, a few pastas and fish selections.  So good.