High Marks and Big Fish
Gourmet magazine unveiled its annual restaurant issue this week, with a focus on the farm-to-fork efforts of restaurants showcasing local products. Among the highlights, Watermark made the list entitled "Meat Rules:"
WATERMARK RESTAURANT
The bread basket here is, in a gambler's parlance, the tell. At this swank skyline-view restaurant in Nashville's rapidly gentrifying Gulch neighborhood, chef Sean Norton and his crew bake angel biscuits and corn sticks; the latter are perfect for sopping up the black-eyed-pea broth that naps a dish of braised rabbit. Or the braised pork belly with chowchow, which, by the way, pairs beautifully with a glass of Riesling. 507 12th Ave. S., Nashville (615-254-2000)
Also in the issue, Roadfoodies Jane and Michael Stern chronicle a recent stay in Nashville during which they surveyed our local hot fish and hot chicken. With shout-outs to King Fish, Bolton's Spicy Chicken & Fish and, of course, Prince's Hot Chicken Shack, the Sterns heaped praise upon the already-heaping sandwich at Eastside Fish. Proprietor Donald "Bo" Boatright, the self-proclaimed King of Fish, couldn't have asked for better ink. Page 56 of Gourmet leads off: "Nashville's crunkest hot-fish sandwich is also its biggest. The Giant King, signature dish at Eastside Fish, is a pair of whiting fillets, each at least a half pound, dredged in seasoned cornmeal and fried crisp, then sandwiched between double slices of soft supermarket white bread."
But we could have told you that.
Comments
It's a lot of food. But it is soooo good.
Posted 10/01/2007 at 11:53:05 AMI
Posted 10/01/2007 at 02:03:27 PMI haven't trusted the Sterns completely since they used to cite the Loveless as the best Nashville had to offer, back in the days when locals winced at every overcooked, cold, inedibly salty bite. (These days the place is great; the Loveless now is what the Sterns seemed to be describing then.) But I'm always grateful for their finds, even if I'll never come within 500 miles of most of them.
Posted 10/02/2007 at 09:35:30 AMI don't get the emotikon. Is that "I love Eastside Fish" or "I crap on Eastside Fish"?
I tend to trust Gourmet's Nashville picks in these issues, generally because I have a good idea where they come from.
Posted 10/02/2007 at 09:37:31 AM
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Posted 10/03/2007 at 01:25:34 PM