Hello from Nashville, Tennessee! The
Loveless Cafe stands out even among the abundance of delicious food available in the south. They're famous for their biscuits made from scratch by Carol Fay. Check her out (and her Got Biscuits? T-Shirt) on
Conan. The buttery beauties are served before every meal at Loveless, with homemade preserves--strawberry, peach, and blackberry. Breakfast is served all day, but their lunch and dinner options are enticing enough to turn down pancakes for. Juicy fried chicken, salty country ham, fried okra, hash brown casserole, macaroni and cheese, hush puppies, catfish ... the list goes on. I had a BLT (toasted pale wheat bread, mayonnaise, deep green lettuce and a generous helping of crisp greasy bacon) with fried green tomatoes (yum!) and sweet iced tea--something I can't get enough of. You literally have to say "unsweet tea" here if you want what we in L.A. consider "iced tea". The whole menu is comfort food precisely how you hope for it in Dixie.
If you haven't had enough by the time you leave the cafe, there's a
gift shop next door which sells everything from magnets to preserves to RC Cola and MoonPies, and of course the famous
biscuit mix!
-- Leslie Anne Wiggins
Photo credit: www.amyengland.net
Elvis Costello has a new album out Tuesday, and he says it's his best in years. National Ransom was recorded in Nashville, of which Costello says "one of the few addresses left in America where there are very fine recording studios and there’s also a high concentration of great musicians."
Hatch Show Print is a very cool letterpress print shop in downtown Nashville. It began in 1879 and today they're still making posters on-site. We picked up an awesome red and white Hank Williams/Grand Ole Opry poster. Their range is wide--from music; Patsy Cline to Steve Martin to Old Crow Medicine Show, to advertisements for Dr. Martens and Holsum bread. The style is similar across the board, most made with basic colors and large block letters and vintage-style imagery. Check out their goods online.
Hello from Nashville, Tennessee! The Loveless Cafe stands out even among the abundance of delicious food available in the south. They're famous for their biscuits made from scratch by Carol Fay. Check her out (and her Got Biscuits? T-Shirt) on Conan. The buttery beauties are served before every meal at Loveless, with homemade preserves--strawberry, peach, and blackberry. Breakfast is served all day, but their lunch and dinner options are enticing enough to turn down pancakes for. Juicy fried chicken, salty country ham, fried okra, hash brown casserole, macaroni and cheese, hush puppies, catfish ... the list goes on. I had a BLT (toasted pale wheat bread, mayonnaise, deep green lettuce and a generous helping of crisp greasy bacon) with fried green tomatoes (yum!) and sweet iced tea--something I can't get enough of. You literally have to say "unsweet tea" here if you want what we in L.A. consider "iced tea". The whole menu is comfort food precisely how you hope for it in Dixie.
