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Little Chicago on Demonbreun St: you can eat healthy
Little Chicago on Demonbreun Street is a lot of restaurant for the modest space it occupies. Yelp unfairly categorizes it as a hot dog and pizza place. Actually, it has a very full Chicago-style menu...
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Pizzereal by the East Nashville Library: you can eat healthy
Pizzereal is a pizza, kabob, and Greek salad restaurant in the Five Points/Lockeland Springs area of East Nashville, where fine old homes are being refurbished and art is happening. This particular...
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The Mad Platter Restaurant: you can eat healthy
The Mad Platter Restaurant is a quaint upscale venue in Nashville's Historic Germantown. It is an old store building, undoubtedly once a neighborhood market when the long, narrow workers' cottages...
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Islanc Breeze Cafe in Madison: you can eat healthy
Island Breeze Cafe at 936 South Gallatin Pike in Madison is a recent start up. I checked it out because any restaurant gutsy enough to set up in the former location of Jenna's Adult Toybox deserves a...
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Mirko Pasta on Demonbreun: you can eat healthy (Photos)
Mirko Pasta, at 1520 Demonbreun Street, is about twice the size of Little Chicago in the same block. Since I am not a pasta fan, I almost passed it up. Then I noticed an entry on their outdoor...
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Southern Belles Restaurant in Antioch: you can eat healthy
Southern Belles Restaurant at 5385 Mount View Road in Antioch advertises itself as the place "where food meets fun". Flat screen TVs are monted on all the walls, and the restaurant advertises fights...
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Longhorn Steakhouse in Madison: a new look and refreshed menu (Photos)
I hadn't stopped by the Madison Longhorn Steakhouse for nearly a year, so I was quite surprised to go in and find it completely redecorated! Formerly, there had been two seating levels, and much of...
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Caney Fork Restaurant: you can eat wild and healthy (Photos)
Caney Fork Restaurant on Music Valley Drive has always given city slickers a taste of life in a fishing (and hunting) camp. The rustic decor features hunting and fishing trophies, fishing gear,...
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Outdoor Dining at Rosepepper Cantina; healthy and fun (Photos)
When the weather tempts you to dine outdoors, Rosepepper Cantina at 1907 Eastland in East Nashville has everything you want. Their roofed patio is built on wooden stilts, just like a camp in the wild....
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Opry Backstage Grill: the lunch menu is healthy (Photos)
Opry Backstage Grill at the Radisson Hotel recently added a moderately priced lunch menu for business folks in the area and those who want a little glamor with their lunch. Lunch time is laid back and...
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Jamaicaway Restaurant at the Farmers' Market: you can eat healthy
I had never noticed Jamaicaway Restaurant in the Farmers' Market because I usually go there on Saturdays, when it is closed. Weekdays and Sundays it is buzzing, especially at lunch. Their space,...
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China Pan Buffet & Grill Antioch: you can eat healthy (Photos)
China Pan Buffet & Grill at 5353 Mountainview Road is a big, informal, friendly, and colorful buffet restaurant. It does not have its own web page but seems to be doing a roaring business just by...
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Chuy's at Opry Mills: you can eat healthy (Photos)
Chuy's is a Mexican chain newly come to Nashville, with locations on Broadway and at Opry Mills. The Broadway location requires valet parking, but ample parking is available at Opry Mills. This...
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Savannah Tea House: eat healthy and daintily (Photos)
Savannah Tea House in Nashville's Germantown specializes in bridal and baby shower events and afternoon teas, but they also offer a light lunch menu for all comers Monday through Friday from 10:00 AM...
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Watanabe World Cuisine and Sushi: you can eat healthy (Photos)
Watanabe is a relatively new entry in the buzzing East Nashville scene. It is located at 1400 McGavock Pike, one of the small crossroads shopping centers on Riverside Drive. If you want relaxed,...
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Italia on Woodland Street: you can eat healthy (Photos)
Italia Pizza and Pasta at 1600 Woodland Street is a time trip as well as a tasty, inexpensive meal. It occupies half of an old-fashioned grocery store building in the historic Lockeland Springs area,...
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West End Cafe: healthy and informal
At West End Cafe, you place your order at a counter - but it is so not a fast food joint! In the 1720 West End Building, it is a perfect place for corporate breakfasts and lunches. ...
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Hibachi Buffet, Grill and Sushi Bar Madison Square: you can eat healthy (Photos)
The Hibachi Buffet, Grill and Sushi Bar in Madison Square is a nice, reasonably priced replacement for the Picadilly Cafeteria that used to be in the same space. This self-service buffet will appeal...
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Tazza on Church Street: you can eat healthy (Photos)
New restaurants are blooming downtown as more Nashvillians live and work there. Tazza, at 501 Church Street, is a charming mixture of old and new. It has a to go menu and makes deliveries, but its...
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417 Union: you can eat in healthy nostalgia (Photos)
This afternoon I visited the charming 417 Union retro restaurant. I remember this building from my earliest childhood, when it was the Satsuma Tea Room. The outdoor murals the present owner has added...
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