Nashville Food Blog

Um, I was an infant in 1985. Yeah. Don't hate.

Playing at both Madame Wong's - Chinatown and West - and arguing with Epic. Good times, good times. Well, playing those stages was fun, anyway. Nothing quite like a Rick played through a Vox AC30.

I wasn't exactly an infant like Kira, but I had not yet started elementary school...My favorite dining establishment was probably Pizza Hut or, maybe, McDonald's.

i was poopin' in one.

Starting middle school.

I was at Southwinds! Which I think was in the basement of what's now that Indigo hotel...but I could be a little, uh, fuzzy on the details.

I was 15 and a busboy at The Sailmaker (post costume days). After work my driving friends and I would go to the Gameland on West End, where Stony River now stands. Once they started carding us we turned to the Bandywood locale where they would actually payout to a 15 year old kid on the video poker machines. Which, subsequently is part of the reason they were closed down. Ah, the memories.

I was 4, probably still poopin' my pants. Who knows.

I was in 1st grade. The Golden Arches were undoubtedly the pinnacle of my culinary world.

In June of '85 I made my first trip to Nashville for a sorority sister's wedding, complete with big floppy hats poolside at a home on the Boooolevahhhd....then we all danced on tables at the Cockeyed Camel on Highway 100. The groom then shuttled all of us out of towners out for Hot Chicken--I'm pretty sure it was Prince's. Twenty plus years later, I live a block from the would-be Camel. Sadly, it is now a bank.

Doing smack in the East Village.

I was at Buster's in Murfreesboro, having a Busterburger and a couple of bottled Cokes before I had to get back to work at Cat's Music & Video. Either that, or I was at Jabb's watching The Whining Art Fags, Shamalam and 11:59.

I had my first date at the Camel. We had chaperones.

Insert cumin joke here.

Not to mention coriander amazing legs.

Oregano better get back to work or tarragon a fire me. And you've been saffron through my bad jokes long enough.

Hey Fluffernutter (or anyone for that matter) - I was 14 in 1985 - I remember 3rd Coast...it was where the boundr'y is, right? But where was Panama Reds? Where was Tavern on the Row? And most importantly, where was CANTRELL'S? HELP!!

Thanks for the info! But where was the building?? (Panama Red & Cantrell's) BTW - I'm not trying to be annoying...I'm just curious...

More of "Babu Bhatt's Dream Cafe"..

Ultra-Violet?
Canyon?
Noshville?

Bob's?
Bosco?

elz -- I think it started:

Maude's Courtyard
Trilogy
Casablanca's

after that I could not say...

Multi-Bob! Zorro, thanks for that memory. Great food, and a great space. We spent two New Years' Eves there -- maybe 90 and 91. I hated to see it close. Can still taste the -- was it crawfish hushpuppies -- with roasted red pepper cream.

can you go here?