New Blog Hunts Down Nashville Dining Deals

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Some people think that food-blogging should be a competitive process where writers scramble to scoop each other on restaurant openings and (sadly) closings. Sure it's always good to be the first to the punch, but there's plenty of room at the buffet table for more local bloggers. Especially when they're sharing information about where to find great dining deals.

Occasional Bites commenter Matthew King and his friend Alex Wendkos have recently started a great site called, ahem, "Eat Me, Nashville." While I'm not sure our benevolent corporate overlords here at the Scene would let me get away with a blog title like that, it really is chock-full of daily specials and menu offerings at restaurants all over town. They are also working at creating a comprehensive happy hour listing which should be helpful as you make your party plans.

I know from experience how much work it is to keep up with the various meal deals and publish on a daily basis. Matthew and Alex seem committed to keeping the site updated and informative. Go ahead and add them to your feed reader or your list of bookmarks and support their efforts.

Keep it up, kids!

Dorian Gray? Meet McDonald's Happy Meal

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This picture is a photo of a McDonald's Happy Meal taken on the day of its purchase. A writer at blog BabyBites -- a site about transforming picky eaters -- decided to see if the rumor she'd heard that a Happy Meal will last for years was actually true.

So she bought a Happy Meal on March 3, 2009, stuck it on her desk at work, and waited. A whole year. Guess what happened?

Dining on a Dime: Half Off at Sperry's for the Month of March

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They say when the going gets tough, the tough start couponing. There are certainly a lot of dining deals out there striving to attract your butts into their booths and your discretionary dollars into their tills. But you have to like the simple no-nonsense offer that Sperry's is running for the month of March. In honor of the 36th anniversary*, all entrees (except lobster tails) are half off! That's it, no loopholes or special requirements. Just head out to either the Cool Springs or Belle Meade location and reap your reward.

Both restaurants open at 5 p.m. and reservations are strongly suggested. Head over here for details.

Belle Meade: 5109 Harding Road (353-0809)
Cool Springs: 650 Frazier Drive (778-9950)

*I checked the Google and discovered the traditional 36th anniversary present is bone china. I personally prefer cheap prime rib, but maybe they'll let you take your plate home if you ask nicely.

Unexpected Lunches Vol. 2: Speakers Bistro at the Sheraton Downtown

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Recently I made an offhanded disparaging remark about "hotel food," and Bites reader Sara correctly called me out for it. Not many people appreciate what chefs in hotel kitchens have to deal with in terms of overhead costs and pressure packed massive meal seatings. The fact that they can create appetizing meals under these conditions is pretty remarkable. Occasionally they create something truly exceptional, think 1808 Grille at the Hutton or the Capital Grille at the Hermitage.

Speakers Bistro doesn't aspire to that sort of haute cuisine, but they do offer a solid meal at an incredible value. The airy dining space in the atrium of the Sheraton Downtown has long been the secret of the legislators and lobbyists who work across the street at the Capitol. You would have thought that the Sunshine laws would have forced them to tell the rest of us, but consider me your Woodward and Bernstein.

In addition to a full lunch menu and some decadent desserts made from scratch, the real bargain is their hot/cold buffet. Served daily 11 a.m. to 2 p.m., the buffet offers a full salad bar, seven to eight rotating cold dishes including Southwestern Chicken, Broccoli & Beef and several vegetarian and vegan options. (The hotel's food and beverage director is a vegetarian and is very sensitive to the needs of meat abstainers.) While serving the proteins cold might seem a little odd, the cost savings are substantial and shared with you.

Finally there is a full made-to-order pasta bar. A chef takes your order of a choice of three pastas, four meats, seven vegetables, three sauces and add-ons like garlic, pesto and basil.

How Far Would You Go for a Free Grand Slam at Denny's?

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It wasn't until I was researching Denny's annual post-Super Bowl Free Grand Slam Breakfast Offer on Feb. 9 that I realized that according to their website the closest Denny's is now in Jackson, Tenn. Is it possible that they've all closed down? If one is still open around town, let your desperately hungry friends know in the comments.

I guess Bowling Green, Ky., is technically closer than Jackson, but I imagine it's against some federal law to cross state lines to commit crimes of nature against your own digestive system. True story ... on a college road trip to Disneyland in a Suburban full of slackers, we somehow managed to each consume three Grand Slams apiece in a 24 hour period. I guess I've never really fully recovered from that one.

Prix Fixe Bargain at Tin Angel

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On the heels of a successful Nashville Originals Restaurant Week, Rick Bolsom and his staff at Tin Angel have decided to keep the party rolling. And you get to be the one to benefit as they offer a great prix fixe dinner deal on Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday, Jan. 26-28.

For just $21, you can get a three-course meal plus dessert, and I'm sure they'd love to offer you suggestions for pairings from their excellent wine list or offer you one of their creative cocktails. They hope to continue offering these midweek deals with a rotating menu as long as diners keep asking for it.

Check out the menu after the jump:

Update: Half-Price Lunch at Mambu

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Eclectic flea market decor enlivens the cozy bar at Mambu. (Photo thanks to webbspunideas.blogspot.
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My excellent colleague Chris Chamberlain mentions in an earlier post that Mambu, the funky and fun playground of chefs Anita Hartel and Corey Griffith, is offering half-price lunch until the end of January.

It sounded like such a deal that I called Hartel to learn about the strings attached to the offer. The answer: virtually none. The 50 percent discount applies to all food on the menu, entrees, salads and apps. Only beverages are regular price.

Hartel says she thought up the idea to lure people out for lunch during the brutally cold days earlier in January. Of course, now the temps are in the 50s!

Nonetheless, half-price lunch continues through the month (actually, that means through Friday, Jan. 29, since Mambu is closed on Sunday and doesn't serve lunch on Saturday).

And if the deal is a hit, Hartel might even extend the offer. Get lunching, y'all!

Shreeji Grocery Moving, Rules for Coconut Busting, and More Farmers Market News

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It's hard to know where to start in deconstructing this sign in the old Shreeji International Market in the Nashville Farmers' Market. But for sure, people breaking open coconuts inside the store -- it just won't do.

Speaking of Shreeji, it's moving to a bigger space within the market, next to Nashville Coffee (where indoor coconut breaking will still probably be discouraged), and its old space is opening up, according to market director Jeff Themm. Ideally, the space could support several new merchants.

Also opening up is the spot once occupied by Oriental Express restaurant, whose lease was not renewed. If you've wanted a place with a captive lunch audience, this is your chance. For info on either, contact Themm at jeff.themm@nashville,gov, 880-2001, ext. 26.

Take Flyte for Beer School and Happy Hour

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I had the pleasure of stopping by Flyte for a quick drink and a nosh before heading out to a play reading last Friday night. Why didn't somebody tell me what an unbelievable happy hour deal they have there? Oh yeah ... that's supposed to be my job.

So consider yourself informed. Tuesday through Saturday from 4:30 until 7:30, Flyte offers 25 percent off on their antipasto bar menu, including a selection of very interesting cheeses that you won't see on a typical cocktail menu. The Buffalo Chicken Spring Rolls were ordered, devoured, reordered and fought over by our the entire table. I shudder to think how many little Buffalo Chickens gave their all for our culinary pleasure.

Savor Bargain Menus During Restaurant Week

Some of Nashville's very best restaurants are offering spectacular deals on meals this week as part of Nashville Originals' Restaurant Week, which runs Monday, Jan. 11 through Sunday, Jan.
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The Originals are a nonprofit, loosely organized collection of independent Nashville restaurants that have banded together to try to match the marketing clout of the national chains.

A big way they promote their member restaurants -- and the concept of dining locally -- is with their annual Restaurant Week.

Each of the 25-plus restaurants seems to have its own twist on the bargains, usually using the figures $20.10 or $30.10. I haven't been to the excellent Yellow Porch in ages, so I may go for the two-course dinner for $20.10. Arnold Myint's three places (PM, Cha-Chah and Suzy's House of Yum) are serving up three courses for the same price.

Some fine dining spots are offering three-course dinner for $30.10, and at tayst, you can get a three-course appetizer sampler for $20.10. Some deals promise to feed two, like at Noshville, or you can try two of Fido chef John Stephenson's daily specials (colorful and often rich in local ingredients plus two specialty coffee drinks for $20.10.

Visit the Originals website for more details and menus.

Click, Don't Clip Coupons From Whole Foods

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Whole Foods, the Austin-based supermarket that specializes in organic and natural groceries, has begun to offer its coupon deals online.

The coupons can be found at www.wholefoodsmarket.com/coupons. The company, which has a store in Green Hills and one in Cool Springs, says the selection of coupon deals will rotate every few weeks to stay fresh and in sync with the seasons.

Many of the deals I saw today seemed geared toward holiday baking: offering $1 off Wholesome Sweeteners' agave nectar, Tropical Source's vegan chocolate chips or King Arthur Unbleached Cake Flour. Customers just have to print out the coupons and redeem them in the store.

Whole Foods has not traditionally been a huge distributor of coupons, but the online strategy, obviously, saves the company on printing costs.

The Year's Worst Meal?

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Every year I eat some astonishingly good food, a lot of average food, and a few meals that are really memorable for all the wrong reasons. The year's least appealing meal came two weeks ago at an unnamed place. The rest you can see from the photo. It was a halfhearted effort at a lousy offering from a place that usually does much better.

Looking back at the year, what were your high points -- and low points -- in 12 months of dining?

Zumi Groupon Causes Cyber Stampede

If you checked Twitter Tuesday morning, you might have seen the tweet for a coupon from Zumi Sushi and clicked the link for a $15 "Groupon" that buys $35 of Zumi Sushi.

The tweet went out at 6:14 p.m. I clicked the link at 6:47 a.m. By that time, 1,032 people had bought a groupon in a virtual land-rush that bogged down the Zumi Sushi site and sold out the cyberstock. Zumi manager Morgan Luck and owner Patrick Burke said people were trying to redeem their coupons before they were valid.

The way the Groupon site works is to offer a daily deal that's too good to miss, but which only happens if enough people sign up. Inviting people is a nice gesture that spreads the love while simultaneously ensuring that the deal goes through. Pretty sweet.

Other local restaurants that have tried it include ChaChah and Cabana.If you were you one of the lucky 1,032 who got a Zumi coupon, or one of the ChaChah or Cabana coupons, report in and tell how you did it.

Black Friday--Rayburn Style

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I probably should have told you about this a little earlier, but if you're like me you would have just put it off until the last minute anyway. Luckily, we have friends like Randy Rayburn and his compatriots at the Sunset Grill and Midtown Cafe to bail us out when it comes to gift giving.

Until Nov. 30, both establishments are offering gift cards at 30% off. Combine that with their frequent half-price wine and dinner options and you can hardly afford to eat at home. The only caveat for you extremely generous spenders is that they have placed a $5,000 maximum on gift card purchases. I think most of us can manage to stay under that.

Gift cards are good at either location and can be purchased in person or on the Sunset Grill website. If you really can't get your act together in time to buy them by the end of the month, fear not. Randy is still offering a 25% discount from Nov. 31-Jan. 11. He's good people that way.

Served to a Tea at Rotiers

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Earlier this week we were discussing restaurant service pet peeves. As guests go, I'm fairly undemanding, but one thing that pushes my button is having iced tea topped off over and over, upsetting the critical lemon-sugar balance.

Some friends visited Rotiers recently for a cheeseburger and tea. Will you just look at how cleverly they've done things? Giving the table its own mini pitcher of tea solves two problems: diluted tea and the other frequently mentioned peeve of being parched and having to ration your beverage until you can summon a server. As my friend Kevin said, "That sound of the last of the drink being slurped through a straw should be something every server listens for and responds to."

Things You Donut Understand

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Earlybirds may have a different experience, but when I arrive at Shipley's Donuts on Lebanon Road, usually around lunchtime, all that remains of the inventory is a single tray half-full of doughnuts. The first couple of times, I thought it was a fluke, but it's happened often.

The reason has me stumped. Maybe Shipley has the tightest inventory control ever, only preparing what they know will sell out? Or maybe people who arrive by 7 a.m. are greeted with mounds of hot, fresh doughnuts that sell like the proverbial hotcakes? Maybe the owners don't want to close the doors when there are still unsold doughnuts but also don't want to make anything that would bring in a lunch crowd?

As for the flavors by noon, usually there is one remaining creme-filled, a lot of plain doughnuts, and maybe a cake doughnut or two. Are earlier arrivals greeted by blueberry doughnut holes, buttermilk apple fritters, or maple-glazed dunkers?

The other thing I wonder about is coffee. Before good coffee was available everywhere, Shipley was known for its better-then-average coffee. I never arrive early enough to get coffee -- has anyone had it lately?

Fifty Percent off Food At F. Scott's Tonight

F. Scott's just tweeted a deal: mention its tweet when you make your reservations and get 50 percent off food in the dining room. 269-5861.

Tags: Deals, F. Scott's

We're Always Looking Out for our Readers

I happened to be meeting some folks after BarCamp Nashville last Saturday night at an unofficial afterparty at Past Perfect downtown. Not being the night owl I used to be, things were wrapping up around the time to get home for the news to SNL. Hey, a guy's gotta get his news somewhere.

As I walked toward the front door, I noticed that servers were beginning to stock the steam tables with what looked like some pretty darned attractive Mexican food. I inquired about it and was told that Past Perfect offers food every Friday and Saturday night at midnight. "Good idea," I commented. "Kind of like the late night menus at some of the Midtown restaurants."

"Yeah," responded the server, "except ours is free." Ding-ding-ding. We have a winner! So if you're looking for someplace to sop up that Lower Broad PBR buzz you've got going on, take a quick turn onto 3rd Avenue under the Pedestrian Bridge for Free Pizza Fridays and Wholly Free Frijoles Saturday. Not since I graduated from college and survived on the free taco bars at The Heartthrob Cafe, Patrick's Fun Club and Rio Bravo (until my digestive system shut down in protest) have I been so excited about a freebie.

I may even take a nap tonight after work so I can stay up that late.

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It's Like Elvis Took a Trip to Veracruz

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Sometimes you finish a meal which is so unusual and unexpectedly delightful that you really want to tell someone about it right away. I consider myself lucky to have this forum to do just that.

I was meeting someone for lunch at Phat Bites off Donelson Pike. We'd never actually had a FTF experience (no this isn't a Craigslist pickup story), so I scanned the restaurant for someone who looked expectant while I stood in line to order. I did not pay the requisite attention to the many chalkboards and signs which cover the walls and pass for a menu at Phat Bites. The queue moved faster than I anticipated and I found myself being that guy I hate at the front of the line, utterly unprepared and surprised to be there.

I glanced at the special board and saw only one sandwich, "The WTF." Not wanting to take up any more time, I blurted "will I like the WTF?" The bemused Reubenista said "I don't know. It's a strange one."

Upon closer inspection, I had to agree. The small print described the sandwich as containing organic peanut butter, smoked bacon, banana, cucumber and fresh jalapeños on toasted raisin bread. But WTF...if I didn't order it, I sure wasn't going to try to make it at home. So alea iacta est.

An hour later as I sit here at my keyboard, my mouth is still glowing with the residual burn of the peppers. Their heat was immediately countered by the icy cool of the cucumbers, but while the jalapeños lost the immediate capsaicin battle, they won the war. The smoky crunch of the perfectly cooked peppered bacon combined with the creamy peanut butter and banana to make me think that Gladys Presley was on her "A" game when she first came up with that one for her baby boy. As a bonus the peanut butter mortared the bacon in place, preventing it from falling out the back of the sandwich or giving in entirely to the first bite like the trollop we know pork likes to be.

The toasted raisin bread was an excellent choice to carry this concoction, dense enough to hold it all together without too many holes for the peanut butter to escape through. The only downside was that the WTF is not a regular menu item at Phat Bites. You'll just have to keep trying until you find it or maybe it is worth a try in your home kitchen.

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Let me know if you have leftovers.

My New Coffee Crush: Half-Price Whole Foods

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Talk about "I'll have what she's having..." The woman in front of me handed over her coffee mug to the Whole Foods barista, who filled it up and charged her a whopping 82 cents. That's right, 82 cents for coffee--and all the agave nectar you could want--if you bring your own refillable mug. In my experience, it doesn't seem to matter what size mug you bring either.

Can anyone find cheaper coffee?

eVictory is Mine!

Normally, I'm a fairly suspicious food shopper. When somebody walks up to me in a store and makes a suggestion, I just assume they're shilling for some product they have a spiff going on instead of truly trying to help me.

So when I walked up to a Harris Teeter produce manager with a $9.00 rotisserie chicken and asked if they had any fried chicken instead, I was on guard when he asked, "You wanna know what a good deal is?" I said no thanks since all I wanted was some poultry parts to take to a Sunday Titans wake.

"I'm just sayin'..." he continued. "If you're an eVic member I can get you a heckuva deal." OK, I'll bite. He leaned close and whispered conspiratorially, "First you have to go over to the service desk and sign up for the eVic program. Then come back here and ask me again."

Okaaaay. Ill-Way oo-Day, ude-Day. One short application form later I was back in front of the counter looking for my bucket. "Chicken's still in the fryer but we're four minutes away." I sensed this had all just been a stall tactic.

How wrong I was. Turns out that if you sign up for HT's eVic program, not only does the store send you the typical weekly email newsletter of store specials but they also offer some ridiculously good deals. Their "Game Day Special" was eight pieces of fried chicken, a pound of macaroni salad, a pound of potato salad and a gallon of iced tea or lemonade for $8.99. That's less than what I was planning to pay for my baked chicken in the first place and figured out to be a savings of $14.56 off what the items would have cost individually.

Even though I might have sacrificed a little healthy factor choosing fried chicken, it was meaty and crispy without being too greasy. Unlike some other grocery store chicken, Harris Teeter doesn't pick the skimpiest chicken parts and disguise them under extra batter. The sides were good for picnic food, although the macaroni salad needed a little pepper to overcome the abundance of sweet mayonnaise. The jug of lemonade certainly wasn't as good as grandma's, but when combined with Southern Comfort it did serve to take the edge off of another Titans' loss.

In the end, the deal was so good it made me feel like when Eddie Murphy dressed up in whiteface on SNL as part of a sociological experiment and discovered what it was like to be a member of the club:

Slowly, I began to realize that when white people are alone, they give things to each other for free.
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If you want to be on the inside, go sign up for eVic at Harris Teeter's website. Don't worry, everyone is invited. Yes we can.

Name Our UFO Meatstuff

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I was lucky to get a spot on the ultra-overscheduled Chris Chamberlain's calendar and we had lunch at Fat Mo's on Murfreesboro Road -- the Mo's formerly known as Taco Tico.

He got the burger, and I ventured into unknown territory with a gyro. Hey! Stop rolling your eyes -- the TV was on Al Jazeera and there were people wearing headscarves in the place. There was some logic to choosing a gyro, especially since everything else on the menu looks SOS -- Straight Outta Sysco.

You know the frozen product called Steak-Ummms? My gyro was the frozen gyro product, which Chris dubbed "Lamb-Umms." My heart sank when it arrived. But, surprise!, the cucumber sauce was good and was mixed with the lettuce, tomatoes and onions instead of slopped on. The flatbread was grilled crisp and chewy, and the Lamb-Umm had been griddled. So, you know, not bad at all.
I was telling a Chris a funny story about Al Jazeera (didn't see that coming, didja?) The station management reached out to recruit a high profile British friend to work for them. He replied that he was flattered, but since he was a Jew, and gay, the relationship was not likely to prosper.

I guess I have a loud voice but darn if the channel on Mo's TV didn't suddenly get changed to JCTV, that would be Jesus Christ Television, it seemed, given the Christ-core band playing and witnessing. Am I that obviously a WASP? Anyway, besides the burger and the not-bad gyro, that's another good thing about Fat Mo's -- they got the extended super cable package. So you can probably watch soccer there.

But remember, when you go, for sure stick with the burger. Oh, and is there a better name than Lamb-Umm?

It's Prime Time!

There are lots of ways to measure your own sense of achievement. On a monthly basis, I turn to the class notes section of my alumni magazine and read of my classmates' accomplishments in government, medicine, science, athletics, finance etc. I have yet to send them in any notification of my newly-recognized abilities to eat, type and use a thesaurus.

However one thing that slammed home the message of my inadequacy was the day that The Palm Restaurant opened downtown almost a decade ago, one of my high school classmates already had his caricature painted on the wall. Not that I begrudged him at all. On the contrary, he's a great guy and I'm sure he deserved it by whatever criteria is used by the powers that be that decide these things.*

Unfortunately, his picture is right on the way to the damned restroom, so there's hardly any way to avoid it. Well, now there's a way for me to head down to The Palm and act like I belong.

That's right, discount happy hour bar food!

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The Palm is introducing their new bar concept, Palm Bar, featuring a new bar menu including Kobe Beef Sliders, Filet Mignon Capri Sandwiches, Mini Broiled Crab Cakes, "Point Judith" Calamari Fritti and more. Normally these small plates are priced somewhere in the $10-12 range.

But during The Palm's all-new happy hour, Prime Time, Monday through Friday from 5pm to 7pm then again after 9pm, Palm Bar offers a variety of their signature Prime Bites at wallet-friendly prices of just $3.50 a plate. Guests can also enjoy a raw bar, including Oysters on the Half Shell for $1 a piece and Jumbo Shrimp Cocktail for $2 a piece during Prime Time.

At those prices for food from The Palm's kitchen it's a tough deal to beat. Unless you go Wednesday September 23 from 5:30 until 7:00 pm when these new plates will be offered at the low, low price of...free. To celebrate the kick-off of their new bar menu concept, The Palm is inviting special guests to try out these dishes on the house. How do you qualify as a special guest, you ask?

Just tell them you know me.

*His wife is pretty rockin' as well.

Charles in Charge: Mucho Mondays at Rumba

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Well you can officially stick a bloody fork in my efforts at Meatless Monday. A recent visit to see Charles Fields, the bar manager of Rumba, 3009 West End Avenue, was the straw (or is it the camel?) that broke this semitarian's back.

I hadn't even gone looking for food. Having met Charles at the Bombay Sapphire/GQ Magazine Inspired Bartender Search, I found him an inspired, thoughtful cocktail artist. Bites commenter Stephanie also recommended that I go check him out in his native habitat, and far be it from me to reject the suggestion of a reader.

Charles and his partner in lime, the extremely engaging Christopher "Speedy" Krantz, run a very tight ship behind the bar at Rumba. They know and care about their ingredients and take a mindful approach to their cocktail creations. Having spent a month in Brazil several years ago, they had me at "Cachaça." When I saw that they were infusing their own sugarcane hooch in a vessel with cucumber, grapes, pears, mint and lime, I knew I had to try some and put my drink order in their able hands.

Charles's suggestion was a "Prester John," named for a mythical Christian king of the Middle Ages. Old King John's eponymous cocktail was pretty mythical too. A heavy hit of the infused cachaça was tempered by a shot of the ubiquitous mixer-of-the-moment St. Germaine elderflower liqueur and topped with a float of lovely floral Green Chartreuse. Unlike other episodes I have had with the Brazilian firewater, I was left with entirely no urge to fight with total strangers. The fruits and florals combined to create a smooth cocktail that was the result of great forethought.

While I was enjoying my second one (just to see if my pugilistic tendencies had merely been delayed rather than completely eliminated), Charles asked whether I knew about their "Mucho Mondays" promotion. I flinched, knowing that this would probably run counter to the ole Meatless Monday.

Low-Price Lunch Rises Above the Subterranean Sandwich

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Rushing out to an activity this weekend, lunch was a "grab at the nearest place" affair. That meant choosing between Domino's and Blimpie's. We don't order Domino's under pretty much any circumstances, so Blimpies was the default choice.
Not a big Blimpies fan, but the youth contingent were fine with it, and discovered the best deal on the menu: a $5 footlong. Only hitch is that you have to order a drink for about $1.40. All tolled, that's just $1.80 more than a the 6-inch sub ($4.59).


Since Subway was crossed off our list years back after an unfortunate $19 lunch for two kids, I don't know how $6.40 for a footlong and a drink stacks up in the "cheap eats" department. It seemed like a deal, and it got the job done for two kids at half the expected price.
Wherever you are in Nashville, there'a a Blimpies near you. U no u e-10 it, as the kids say in text-ese. So how do you rate our choice, the food Blimpies, and what do you get when you're there?

Five Dollah. Five Dollah. Five Dollah Lunch Deeeeal.

A quickie for a Friday afternoon. (Don't I wish...)

Name the best carry out lunch that you can get for under 5 bucks and in under 5 minutes.

Parameters: Must have some sort of side item but you don't have to include the cost of a drink. Go a little green and buy yourself a nalgene bottle to fill at the water fountain. Save your money and those empty fountain drink calories to buy a better meal.

I submit the $4.49 Honey Hot 6-piece wing deal from Nuttin' But Wings on the corner of Lebanon Rd. and Spence Lane.

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That's my Gnip. Now you Gnop.

Los Rosales Closed

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Los Rosales, the Mexican restaurant at the corner of Blue Hole and Bell roads, has closed. After changing lands in late 2007 and being reinvented with a healthy, fresh menu in summer 2008, the restaurant--much beloved by Bites readers--closed Aug. 16. A letter from owner Carlos Moncayo cited unfavorable economic conditions.

Meatless Monday Be Damned

Well, whaddya know? My password still works.

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Just because everybody is out to get you doesn't mean that you're paranoid. Sometimes the universe just conspires against you.

I've been trying really hard to stick with this Meatless Monday challenge. With the exception of a few small slip-ups when somebody else was doing the cooking, I've been a good boy so far. But there's only so much temptation a guy can take.

My bar away from home, the Sportsman's Grille in the Village has announced a new $5 cheeseburger + one side deal on Mondays. Hell, a side order of fries usually costs $3.75 at that joint, and while it's not PM good, the Grille makes a damned fine cheeseburger.

The deal is available at all three Sportsman's locations including Cool Springs and Belle Meade. If anybody gets a chance to check if their Germanic cousin across the river is celebrating "Käseburger Montag," report back in the comments.
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Stay strong, fellow semitarians!

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