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Great Nashville Restaurants
 CAPITOL
GRILLE (Southern Gourmet)
Hermitage Hotel 231 Sixth Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 615.244.31216 Book Your CAPITOL GRILLE Reservation On-Line! Once, a city's best restaurants could be found in its hotels and the Capitol Grille is reinventing that tradition with casually elegant style. The menu tips its hat to the South (a grits cake garnishes the rock shrimp appetizer, white beans fill out the bouillabaisse) while remaining fresh and inventive. Winner entrees include the veal scaloppini topped with lobster, praline bacon and white cheddar, Tennessee trout and Jack Daniel's marinated steak with roasted garlic mashed potatoes and rosemary fried cabbage. |
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SCOTT'S (American) 2210 Crestmoor Road Nashville, Tennessee 37215 615.269.5861 Arguably Nashville's finest contemporary American restaurant features wine tastings every Monday and live jazz nightly in its lounge. Starters include fried calamari over black rice and sweet & sour pork tenderloin with melon and toasted cashews. Entrees include grilled Mississippi catfish with crispy andouille-scallion grits, asparagus and a sherry-pecan pan sauce, grilled filet of beef with blue cheese crumbles, a crab and artichoke stuffed tomato, mashed potatoes and sweet corn sauce, and marinated double cut pork chop with napa cabbage wrapped rice bundles, Asian pesto and pineapple-sake butter. |
 FLEMING'S
(Steakhouse)2525 West End Nashville, Tennessee 37203 615.342.0131 Fleming’s serves the finest in USDA Prime beef: corn-fed, aged up to four weeks for flavor and texture, then hand-cut daily and broiled at 1600 degrees to seal in all the juices and flavor. Execuitve Chef Russell Skall is setting new standards of culinary excellence for American steakhouses and works closely with Director of Wine, Marian Jansen op de Haar, to pair his culinary creations with Fleming's many fine wines. |
 MAD
PLATTER (Fusion / Eclectic)
1239 6th Avenue North Nashville, Tennessee 37208 615.242.2563 Book Your MAD PLATTER Reservation On-Line! The Mad Platter Restaurant, located minutes from downtown in Historic Germantown, offers daily changing menus and an award-winning wine list. An example of our dishes include: filet of beef tenderloin cracked black pepper crusted and topped with stilton and red wine gastrique, sauted shrimp and andouille over sun-dried tomato and parmesan polenta and the mad platter rack of lamb marinated, seared, and slow-roasted to order in a dijon rosemary crust. Owners Craig and Marcia Jervis met in 1984 while catering the Jackson Victory Tour, fell in love and have been cooking together, literally, ever since. |
 MIDTOWN
CAFE (American) 102 19th Avenue South Nashville, Tennessee 615.320.7176 Book Your MIDTOWN CAFE Reservation On-Line! Known for its fresh-daily seafood, its signature lemon-artichoke soup and a terrific Caesar salad, the Midtown Cafe prepares every meal from scratch, including its famous crabcakes with cayenne hollandaise. Entrees include Atlantic Salmon, Sashimi Grade Hawaiian Ahi Tuna, Maine Lobster, Veal Oscar, Lamb, Pork Loin, Foie Gras, Duck Breast and Snake River Farms Idaho Kobe Wagyu Beef Filet. |
 SPERRY'S
RESTAURANT (Steakhouse)
650 Frazier Drive, Suite 140 Franklin, Tennessee 37067 615.778.9950 Book Your SPERRY'S Reservation On-Line! Steak selections include slow-roasted Prime Rib and the best-selling Prince Williams Blue-cheese Stuffed Filet, so named because of the prince's visit to Sperry's in 2005. Sperry's warm and unique English Tudor atmosphere has three stone fireplaces and beautiful stained glass in addition to a myriad of decorations collected over the years. Many guests inquire about our table tops and bar. They were built on the premises from Liberty ship hatch covers used in World War II. The bar top is hand carved from this wood. The unique finish was achieved by repeated applications of an epoxy resin, rubbed to a mirror finish. Sperry's has brought to Nashville a unique dining concept of tasteful surroundings combined with a high staff-to-seating ratio, and quality food offered at reasonable prices. |
 SUNSET
GRILLE (Contemporary) 2001 Belcourt Avenue Nashville, Tennessee 37212 1.866.496.FOOD Book Your SUNSET GRILLE Reservation On-Line! One of the trendiest restaurants in Nashville, appetizers include crispy duck and fois gras wontons, beef tenderloin carpaccio and sesame crusted Hawaiian ahi. Entrees include roasted cervena venison, Tennessee freshwater prawns, moulard duck breast, sesame crusted salmon and grilled veal strip loin. |
 ZOLA
(Mediterranean) 3001 West End Avenue Nashville, Tennessee 615.320.7778 Always an innovator on the Nashville fine dining scene, ZOLA's chef / owner Debra Paquette takes diners on a magical culinary journey around the Mediterranean. Spanish, Italian and French cuisine are the main influences on the menu, but we also serve Moroccan and Greek food. Chef Debra's Mediterranean fusion has a New South twist that features items like Fried Green Tomato Salad and a Corn Liquor Cured Pork Chop. Our fresh seafood is shipped in daily, so we always have great fish specials, as well as our market fish of the day. Our meat dishes are peerless in gourmet restaurant circles. Lamb, veal, venison, pork and duck all grace the menu, but Debra is also known as one of Nashville's best chefs when it comes to vegetarian cuisine. |
