Local Flavor 10 a. Barista Parlor opened in May in a converted auto-repair garage behind a dusty old store called Rainbow Fashions in increasingly hip East Nashville. It is a highly stylized coffee house where they spin vinyl, decorate with Edison bulbs and old motorcycles, use blue bandannas as napkins and do not serve decaf.
Stone ground in Nashville. Food Trucks and Stuff Noon. The Craftsman-style bungalows, circa s, that make up sleepy little residential pockets vary from student flophouse to renovated dream house. Creative types mill around I Dream of Weenie, a hot-dog stand fashioned out of an old Volkswagen bus. A New Frontier 3 p. In hilly Sevier Park, picnickers in fashion-sweats settle in for the afternoon, while stroller-pushing mothers amble shoulder to shoulder, and plaid-and-denim-clad men throw balls for their rescue dogs.
An All-Purpose Block 7 p. In the Gulch, the Kitchen has fewer than 60 seats in a retrofitted shipping container, but has made a big impression. Into the Wee Hours 11 p. It reopened in its original spot in as part of an urban revival of the Melrose neighborhood.
With three screens, it runs new indie releases and repertory classics, and there is usually a noon Sunday showing. The theater stocks a full bar and locally made edibles. The Belcourt is in the middle of Hillsboro Village, some of the best gift-shopping, coffee-sipping and eating in town.
They come in handy in trendy neighborhoods such as East Nashville where hotels are few. The hotel is Southern, traditional and opulent, but with contemporary amenities and close to everything downtown. What's in store for travelers hitting the road and the skies during this uncertain year.
Travel 36 Hours in Nashville. Friday 1 p. Saturday 4 10 a. Yes, the Parthenon Grab breakfast try EiO and The Hive in the Nations neighborhood and head to the Parthenon at Centennial Park , the only full-size replica of the Athens monument, built in as part of the Tennessee Centennial Exposition, and a bit of a guilty pleasure.
Johnny and Patsy Together Again Save the ever-great Country Music Hall of Fame for a longer visit; two bite-size treasures honoring the country legends Johnny Cash and Patsy Cline are conjoined just a block south of Broadway and pack a lot of wallop per square foot.
I had a hot chicken homage at the gastro-temple called Cat Bird Seat made with fried chicken skin, Korean chile flakes and dill powder. It was great, but it made me want the real thing.
What makes a good biscuit? What are the regional differences? As we discussed, Southern food is regional and biscuits are really regional. There are beaten biscuits and cream biscuits and biscuits made with lard or whose dough is so loose that they have to be set into a pan with an ice cream scoop. The biscuits at the Loveless Cafe, the restaurant featured in the Travel Channel episode, are particularly fluffy, and use more than one ingredient to give them their signature loftiness.
They are a touch sweet but also a bit salty. And like most good Southern biscuits, they are made with self-rising soft wheat flour.
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