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BEST BAGEL: BAGEL FACE BAGELSKristen Skruber is a self-professed allure nerd, and her agog apperception of the relationships amidst yeast, sugar, bacilli and esters has set off a alternation acknowledgment that has annoyed breakfast to its core. The aftereffect of Skruber's baking abracadabra is a rounder, chewier bagel that looks added like a softball than a doughnut and that's bendable abundant to cradle the capacity of a sandwich afterwards squirting them out the sides. It's a blueprint that drew ample and loyal crowds to her aboriginal abundance aback it launched at the ambitious basic of Riverside Village in East Nashville.

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On the heels of aboriginal success, Skruber and co-owner Rae Schobel relocated this bounce to Main Street, breadth they abduct the aboriginal birds with adroit flavors such as amber espresso, absurd wheat-jalapeno and rosemary garlic. Meanwhile, Bagel Face, which takes its name from the way a grandmother acquiescently scrunches up a baby's beefy cheeks into a bad-tempered bundle, is assuming its mug all over boondocks in locales such as Dose, Crema, Frothy Monkey, Mitchell Delicatessen and the Hermitage Hotel. Bagel connoisseurs may affray over whether Skruber and Schobel's bendable and adaptable aliment is on par with a gnarly New York bagel. But aback it comes to bootleg bounded breakfast, Bagel Face hits a aperture in one. CARRINGTON FOX

BEST RESTAURANT: CITY HOUSEWith its active atmosphere, alternating menu, artistic appetizers, and best of all, admirable thin-crust brick-oven pizzas, Burghal Abode has becoming the top atom on abounding Nashvillians' dining destination account — so abundant so that it's bent every night except Tuesday (when it's closed). Contempo highlights: actually the best ribs I accept anytime eaten (coated in a dry rub of fennel and herbs), an able booty on caked bloom (peaches, ricotta and burst pretzels) and a agitating pizza with zucchini, pecorino and pork strutto. As audience know, chef-owner Tandy Wilson loves his pig products, but there are consistently acceptable vegetarian options too. And best of all, you don't accept to banknote in your already anhydrous 401k: Two bodies can calmly allotment a pizza, bloom and app, for a absolute bill of aloof arctic of $30. JACK SILVERMAN

BEST CHEF/GENTLEMAN FARMER: TYLER BROWN, CAPITOL GRILLEIt seems counterintuitive to acclaim a chef for accepting clay beneath his fingernails, but Chef Tyler Brown of the Capitol Grille at the Hermitage Hotel is authoritative a name for himself in both the kitchen and on the farm. Outstanding in both fields (nyuck), Chef Brown creates admirable dishes in his restaurant from beef to beets that he raises on the 66-acre acreage at Glen Leven, acknowledgment to a accommodating adventure with the Land Assurance of Tennessee. It doesn't get added farm-to-table than that. CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

BEST FOOD EMPIRE: (TIE) BENJAMIN & MAX GOLDBERG, ARNOLD MYINTTheir ventures apprehend like a what's-what account of Nashville food. The Goldbergs' backing accommodate the chichi cocktail allowance Patterson House, Lower Broad kitsch temple Paradise Park, the overhauled Merchants and the buzzed-about new chef's restaurant The Catbird Seat. Meanwhile, above Top Chef adversary Arnold Myint presides over Asian admixture abode PM, avant-tapas anteroom Cha Chah, Eastern alehouse Suzy Wong's Abode of Yum and farmers' bazaar arrest AM@FM. That's a lot of acceptable bistro from two absolute altered but analogously adventurous artistic sources. STEVE HARUCH

BEST LISTENING ROOM/RESTAURANT: FAMILY WASHMost times, aback you go to apprehend a bandage at a club that serves food, you're either disturbing to asphyxiate bottomward the inedible agnate of a two-drink minimum or aggravating to tune out some chiffon acoustic balladeer while you comb about for the aftermost nacho. Neither aliment nor music shows signs of carelessness at Jamie Rubin's East Nashville hang, breadth the neighborhood's abounding musicians can be begin air-conditioned at the adapted laundry with a shepherd's pie and a beverage (the Wash's acclaimed $10 Tuesday "Pint & Pie" special) aback they're not on the road. Tip: Any night you get wind of a set by the Sons of Zevon — Rubin's all-star awning bandage featuring audience who've played for the brand of David Bowie, The Atramentous Crowes and The Jayhawks — accompany lawyers, accoutrements and money. JIM RIDLEY

BEST STAY OF EXECUTION: ELLISTON PLACE SODA SHOPBoy, that was a abutting one. In July, it was attractive like Elliston Abode Soda Bazaar was about to go the way of The Abundant Escape — ousted from its roost of added than 70 years by ascent hire and a afflicted economy. Acknowledgment to an access of abutment and some able charter maneuvering, the Rock Block's admired abode to get a milkshake charcoal complete — at diminutive for accession bristles years. LANCE CONZETT

BEST WEEKLY FOOD EVENT: MANGIA NASHVILLEWhen Nick Pellegrino came up with the abstraction for Mangia Nashville at a New Year's Eve affair nine months ago, it's ambiguous he had any clue how big it would become: Afterwards aloof seven months in operation, the fixed-price Italian barbecue has advertisement from one to two nights a week, and is about appointed up weeks in advance. Featuring an arrangement of antipasti, two salads, two pastas, three entrées and two desserts, the family-style aliment fest is a arrangement at $40. Akin better, it's BYOB (with a $5 cork fee). Heavenly highlights from the abatement agenda accommodate broiled polenta with agrarian augment ragú, the outstanding carapace pasta with short-rib Bolognese, broiled pork loin with vinegared blooming peppers, and sautéed pears with house-made ricotta and bounded honey. And of course, our admired corrupt indulgence, zeppole, served brim hot in a cardboard bag abounding with aerial sugar. (Suggestion: Don't abrasion black, unless you appetence to accessory like you've been partying with Charlie Sheen.) Every Friday and Saturday at the Air-conditioned Cafe, 1110 Hillsboro Road, Franklin. By catch only; alarm 538-7456. JACK SILVERMAN

BEST ANNUAL FOOD EVENT: CHINESE NEW YEAR BANQUET, WILD GINGERNashville has added antagonism for this chic every year, from the Hot Craven Festival to Generous Helpings (and we butterfingers our own Iron Fork). But there's actually a lot to like about the Chinese Arts Alliance of Nashville's anniversary Lunar New Year banquet: eight awe-inspiring courses (ranging this year from West Lake beef soup to flounder with scallops and broiled ambrosial prawns), alluringly presented and akin added alluringly flavored. Add to that the adorable altercation of the bobcat ball — improbably accomplished amidst the tables as the dancers snake their way through the dining allowance — artwork, affair favors and aperture prizes, and you've got a anniversary as acceptable as any beneath the moon. STEVE HARUCH

BEST WEEKEND ACTIVITY: IN-STORE WINE TASTINGSIn what we achievement will be a acting footfall bottomward the glace abruptness of alleviation the ancient wine and liquor regulations of our state, legislators assuredly voted to acquiesce wine and liquor aliment to cascade samples for consumers. Now absorbed shoppers can assuredly "try it afore you buy it" as wine bazaar advisers action a quick apprenticeship on accurate wineries and varietals. Now if we can aloof do article about Sundays and supermarkets. CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

BEST SECRET DINING OPTION: POP-UP SUPPER CLUBSBetween the beachcomber of aliment trucks and the chic of pop-up restaurants currently across-the-board some above metropolises, the barriers to access for restaurants accept never been lower. Still, some bodies appetence to allotment their comestible creations with others afterwards advance in bartering accessories — or akin abrogation their houses, for that matter. In-home supper clubs are growing in popularity. Usually you accept to be access through an email and acquittal is acceptable beneath the banquet table in the anatomy of "tips," but groups like The Acceptable Wife Supper Club and Vivek Surti's Epicurean Adventures Supper Club are giving the bodies what they appetence ... acceptable aggregation and abundant meals. CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

BEST PR: FOOD SHOWS DISCOVER NASHVILLEWe apperceive Nashville has some abundant restaurants, but now chat is extensive the blow of the world. National aliment shows like Diners, Drive-ins and Dives, Throwdown! With Bobby Flay and Eat Street accept all visited our fair burghal in the accomplished few years, featuring bounded favorites such as Prince's Hot Craven Shack, the Loveless Cafe, Martin's Bar-B-Que Joint, Savarino's, Riffs Accomplished Street Aliment barter and The Pancake Pantry. Is the publicity authoritative an impact? Let's aloof say that aback Man v. Aliment Nation host Adam Richman — a man we're afraid to see animate — paid a contempo appointment to the Gulch BBQ collective Rooster's, he brought out a bunch of amative foodie stalkerazzi advanced unseen. CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

BEST TREND: FOOD TRUCKSIt may be breaking ranks to alarm the abrupt admeasurement of aliment trucks a "trend," but let's be honest: "Sudden proliferation" is a acceptable way to analyze one — and that they were afresh a Arena awning adventure is another. Nashville is in the 30-40 barter ambit now: We've got tacos, pizza, broiled cheese, Japanese — all fun and delicious! Let's aloof achievement they angle with coffee shops in foodie history, rather than flush cupcakes. ASHLEY SPURGEON

BEST FOOD TRUCK: RIFFS FINE STREET FOODFrankly, as far as bank on aliment trucks goes in Nashville's comestible chic of the moment, we've formed sevens every time — whether it's a 2 a.m. allotment at Pizza Buds, a adhesive Croque Madame at The Broiled Cheeserie, a burger blimp with dupe cheese from Hoss' Loaded Burger, or akin a pre-craze adversary like Mexico (now anchored on Nolensville abreast Haywood Lane), home to a baking salsa verde that amounts to a abatement colostomy. And Labor of Love's Philly cheesesteaks are in a chic of their own (see Best Philly Cheesesteak access afterwards in this section). But Riffs, the abstraction of B.J. Lofback and Carlos Davis, has set a bar for boldness and bendability that's adamantine to beat, whether the alternative is a ambrosial Asian beef bloom dusted with brittle noodles, a agitating jerk craven on skewers or a citrusy angle taco. They actualize the activity and arrangement the mobile-food movement has brought to Nashville's restaurant arena — a abutting breeze currently adequate the drive of a hurricane. JIM RIDLEY

BEST COMEBACK: JAMAICAWAYJamaicaway has been a anxiously adorable cafeteria atom aback Ouida Bradshaw opened it in the Farmers' Bazaar in 2003. A cafeteria calendar offers a compensation of Caribbean abundance food: jerk and back-scratch chicken, oxtails and goat, accomplished greens and some acceptable vegetarian entrées. But aftermost year's Abundant Flood hit the Bradshaws hard, and costs to reopen was difficult to secure. In a appearance of devotion, assemblage aggregate for a Save Jamaicaway account affair in December. Further admonition came in the absurd anatomy of Aliment Network celebrity Guy Fieri. The adventure of Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives breadth he visits Jamaicaway has been airing occasionally aback December, breeding analytical new barter with anniversary broadcast. Jamaicaway reopened beforehand this year, and at a contempo Night Market, the band of acquisitive diners continued out the aperture all atramentous long. DANA KOPP FRANKLIN

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BEST UPGRADE: MERCHANTSFor far too long, Merchants got a bye on the aliment because the amplitude had exposed-brick walls and an alluring history. Leave it to the Goldberg Brothers to apprehend that those attributes, accompanying with an accomplished menu, could accomplish for a modern-day burghal landmark. A beginning covering of balmy white paint, some begrimed mirrors and a reconfiguring of the downstairs, not to acknowledgment an affected analysis of the added academic additional story, conspired to reinvent this blood-warm dining dowager into a comestible hot spot. On the accidental arena floor, the agenda offers artistic abreast takes on abundance aliment favorites such as pot roast, turkey sandwiches and succotash. Meanwhile, admiral the book is added flush (as are the atmosphere and the prices), authoritative the amiable additional adventure an accomplished abode for academic and clandestine gatherings. CARRINGTON FOX

BEST MEAT-AND-THREE: COOL CAFEYou won't apprehend a chat of acumen from us if, appear the holidays, you amble out to this easygoing meat-and-three in a Franklin band basic to get your turkey and trimmings. Really, what's the point of contagion all that cookware aback Air-conditioned Cafe can aftermath turkey, cranberry sauce, academician bathrobe and candied potatoes every bit as acceptable as you ambition your mom could anytime make? Holidays aside, it's adamantine to go to all the agitation of case potatoes and frying craven aback all year continued Tim Ness and his aggregation are expertly advancing those archetypal Southern staples — forth with meatloaf, craven casserole, a few ablaze salads, cakes, cobblers and aerial assistant pudding that can get akin the coolest chump a little hot and bothered. CARRINGTON FOX

BEST SOUL FOOD: SWETT'SContrary to what shows like Mad Men imply, there were atramentous bodies animate and able-bodied in the '60s. Indeed, there were akin some in the '50s, the decade Walter and Susie Swett purchased Joyland Tavern on 11th Avenue. The aforementioned year — 1952 — they additionally began operating Swett's Grocery at 28th and Albion. Two years later, they opened Swett's Dinette on 28th and Clifton, breadth it stands today. Had Bill O'Reilly gone there a few times, he would never accept accurate his arguable acknowledgment years ago about accessory a acclaimed atramentous restaurant in New York and actuality afraid by its amount of civility. Swett's is a affair abode for all sorts of bodies — and a atom breadth you can get the best body aliment anywhere in Music City, from beef tips, meatloaf and pulled pork to annihilate casserole, collard or alarm greens, black-eyed peas, cornbread, candied potato pie or blackberry cobbler. The prices abide absolutely reasonable, and they now accept a additional breadth in Blooming Hills (2209 Abbott Martin Road) that replaced their flooded-out enactment at the Nashville Farmers' Market. There's affluence of history at Swett's, but auspiciously they're not relying on their acceptability aback it comes to food. RON WYNN

BEST COMFORT FOOD: PUCKETT'S DOWNTOWNIf you'd taken a bet amidst Nashvillagers that a meat-and-three with alive music would be able to accomplish burghal in a atom several blocks abroad from both Lower Broad and the Additional Avenue day-tripper corridor, you apparently could accept gotten some ambrosial acceptable allowance adjoin the proposition. Abnormally with no apparent parking options, which consistently turns off locals and our faculty of alms to chargeless "mall parking" aural 20 anxiety of any destination. But the new Puckett's Bend at St. Cloud Bend charcoal jumping, day and night, through a aggregate of analgesic abundance aliment — biscuits aggregate with eggs and gravy, big blowzy burgers, absurd craven and catfish — and abundant music Tuesday-Saturday nights. What do we know, anyway? CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

BEST UNSUNG WEEKEND BRUNCH: SOUTH STREETLooking for a actively acceptable Nashville weekend breakfast? Sick of the chat "Benedict" on brunch menus? Tired of the farkakte drive out to the Loveless? Old reliable South Street's "smoke abode breakfast" on Saturdays and Sundays is aloof the ticket. The best clutter in town, a analgesic pecan waffle, frittata with shrimp and crawfish, for arrant out loud ... and aggregate on the analytic priced agenda comes with biscuits, gravy and grits. Add a breeze aback the big windows are up on a nice day, and it approaches perfection. BRUCE BARRY

BEST STAND-ALONE BRUNCH ITEM: STUFFED FRENCH TOAST PANCAKES, SKY BLUE CAFEFact: I do not accept a adult palate. I distill at the anticipation of a Costco churro and will consistently aces Steak 'n Shake over an absolute steak dinner. However, I apperceive pancakes, and East Nashville's Sky Dejected Cafe has article appropriate in their pantry. These comestible mad scientists covering their massive French acknowledgment with an "outer band of pancake" afore abstraction them with filling. Unless you're attractive to go into hyperglycemic shock, skip the PB&J and banana/chocolate-chip options and go with eggs/cheese/bacon/sausage for that absolute mix of candied and acrid (vegetarian advantage available). This is the absolute breakfast of champions. ABBY WHITE PLACHY

BEST NEW COFFEEHOUSE: THE JAMNaysayers online told Diana Newton and her daughters Bethany and Maile that their sparkling little coffeehouse and tea bazaar would never survive in its location: a characterless band basic aloof off the all-but-impassable circle of 12th and Wedgewood, about hidden by the bend bazaar affairs abatement cigs and Coursing Brothers Pizza. But it was a appearance of acceptance in their capricious adjacency aback the Newtons removed the confined over their windows beforehand this year and let ablaze flood the cozy, animated little room, with its aflame canisters of 50 altered teas and its stout canteen single-cup filter-drip brewpots. Those pots aftermath acutely bright, ambrosial cups from broiler Brandon Stakelbeck's coffee — but the Newtons' beholden fussing over every chump beats caffeine as a morning pick-me-up. JIM RIDLEY

BEST HAMBURGER: BURGER UPThere are many, abounding aces contenders in this category, from Gabby's in the automated commune abreast Greer Stadium to Fido, man's best acquaintance in Hillsboro Village. But The Woodstock, Burger Up's adorable assemblage of locally sourced advantage — from the grass-fed beef to the improbably begrimed Benton's bacon to the house-made Jack Daniel's maple ketchup — makes for a perfect, and altogether Nashville, affectionate of burger. And the advantage of abacus affluent truffle chips and a Mexican Coke to the ensemble abiding makes the case for the Woodstock all but airtight. STEVE HARUCH

BEST HOT DOG STAND: KEVIN'S SNACK SHACK, 100 OAKS HOME DEPOTFor the best hot dog in town, there are several able brick-and-mortar shops, bluntly speaking. In our estimation, cipher beats Hot Diggity Dogs with its first-rate beef franks ("charred," please), admitting The Dog of Nashville and up-and-comer Cori's accept their partisans. And Jim's Coney Island on Trousdale is the abode for alone Detroit ex-pats to get their fixes for Coney dogs with absolute beef case and chili booze — done bottomward with a Faygo Rock & Rye, natch. But sometimes you aloof appetence a cheap, fast dog on the fly — and for that, association accept been lining up at Kevin Inman's agenda table alfresco the 100 Oaks Home Depot for eight years now. For beneath than four bucks, you can get a $2.25 dog, a $1 soda and a 50-cent bag of chips, and 50 cents added gets you a Chicago dog Inman's got bottomward to such a science he snaps shut the action pepper and onion canisters in the aforementioned ambit of his arm. Or chase the archetype of five-year angel Frank Woodlee, who comes all the way from burghal for the Polish sausage — ablaze onion, mayo — with Fritos and a Mountain Dew. "Best dog in the city," he says. JIM RIDLEY

BEST PHILLY CHEESESTEAK: LABOR OF LOVEI'd rather acquaint a ComicCon signing band that Capt. Kirk could bang Han Solo's ass than get Philly ex-pats arguing over what is or isn't an "authentic" cheesesteak. Provolone or Cheez Whiz, mushrooms or no mushrooms, bendable bun vs. adamantine cycle — it's abundant to accomplish a Wookiee abdicate Life Day. On this point, however, there's little argument: At their mustard-yellow truck, Philly kids Jennifer Zungolo and Christopher Eddis are confined the best 'steak you're acceptable to get in these genitalia — angular meat hand-chopped and broiled aloof so, buns aureate in from Amoroso's bakery (and they haven't been acquisition dust aback Rocky Balboa ran accomplished them). Some association ambition for added salt, added cheese (including a Cheez Whiz option) and a aperture for beef to escape the foil-wrapped sandwiches afore it turns the buns to concoction — but these drips apparently accept Han Solo's back. To everybody else, we awful acclaim the pizza sub, the cherry-pepper advantage and the bootleg Italian ices. JIM RIDLEY

BEST GYRO: KING SOLOMON'SFew would altercation that the breadth of Gallatin Alleyway that slinks through East Nashville offers little in the way of the comestible and cultural delights begin so calmly abroad in the neighborhood. But this is no acumen to address it off altogether. Case in point: Tucked amidst Burger King and Rite Aid (at Gallatin and Chicamauga) is a little white hut dispensing what is arguably the best Greek aliment in Nashville — for pennies. And the address is multidimensional. Not alone is the aliment consistently served made-to-order, authoritative it chiefly beginning (the abbreviate delay is account it), it's consistently served by the absolute bodies abaft this accomplished establishment, who I'm academic haven't had a day off in absolutely some time. Indeed, I can't adjudge which is added inspiring: their active assignment belief or the adorable yet affordable aliment they serve me every week. RYAN BURLESON

BEST SANDWICH HONORING A TRULY GREAT NASHVILLIAN: SAVARINO'S JACK SILVERMANIThe anniversary Best of Nashville affair is no abode for apocryphal humility, so I'm aloof activity to acquaint it like it is: Getting a Savarino's sandwich alleged afterwards you is a huge deal. Few Nashvillians are arresting abundant to deserve such an account — and akin beneath accept gone to the restaurant at diminutive already a anniversary for the accomplished bristles years, aboveboard begging, argumentation and whining for that honor. Akin added amazing, I managed to argue those suckers that I'm absolutely Italian — appropriately the "i" at the end of the name — aback actuality a paisan is the alone way to get your name on the menu. (Hopefully they don't apprehend this paper.) And what bigger way to pay accolade to a abundant Hebrew-Italian-American than with a sandwich of shrimp (not kosher) and bacon (even beneath kosher). Add a few slices of broiled potato and some bomba calabrese (a ambrosial sauce), and you've got an bacchanal of alarming that would allure akin my clergyman to breach several millennia of Torah-proscribed comestible laws and tradition. JACK SILVERMAN

BEST SIDE: FRIED PICKLES, HOT DIGGITY DOGSTaking the vaunted absurd bind to the accepted abutting level, the acceptable bodies of Hot Diggity Dogs dip absolute garlicky spears in concoction and deep-fry them to tangy-crisp, dill-crusted perfection. Are they addictive? Let's aloof say Hot Diggity co-owner Gayle Davis refers to assertive Arena staffers who will not be alleged as "picklehead" whenever we — uh, they, pop in. It's the arrangement of appellation that would feel like a accountability if it weren't so absolutely account it. And hey, we've been alleged worse. STEVE HARUCH

BEST HEALTHY LUNCH BUFFET: TURNIP TRUCK URBAN FAREBecause of its adjacency to our offices and the abundance with which we eat there, we accredit to the Gulch breadth of Alarm Barter as "The Arena Commissary." We can consistently acquisition article tempting, and on its best days, it can battling accomplished restaurant aliment — decidedly aback the hot bar is confined up lasagna Bolognese or absurd chicken. Of course, aback we feel like bistro advantageous (every third Tuesday), the algid bar has a advanced arrangement of veggies, the casual sushi, brainstorm salads, and of advance our admired advantageous (ahem) items: panna cotta and auto curd. JACK SILVERMAN

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BEST NEWS FOR PIZZA LOVERS: NY PIE / AMICO'S / FIVE POINTS PIZZAOther cities booty the prevalence of first-rate pizza wholly for granted, as if abundant slices were as abundant a accustomed as oxygen in baptize molecules. But in Nashville, above abiding champs Manny's and Joey's Abode of Pizza and the Vanderbilt Pizza Perfect, the burghal has about had ample blackout zones ablaze by accomplished non-chain (or chain) pie. Some of those accept been abounding in, however: by the agitating NY Pie in Nashville West out Bellevue way, with its ample billowing Brooklyn-style slices; by Amico's in Nolensville, home additionally to big aureate arch calzones; and by East Nashville newcomer Bristles Points Pizza, an burning hit with late-night citizenry gluttonous beer soppage afterwards midnight. Is it too abundant now to achievement for a absolutely acceptable Chicago abysmal bowl about here? JIM RIDLEY

BEST DOWNLOW DRIVE-THRU: MANNY'S HOUSE OF PIZZALots of pizza joints will bear to your home or office, and aloof about all of them animate carryout service. But if a restaurant is amidst downtown, your slices may be algid by the time either you acquisition parking or they action the cartage to get to your abode of business. Manny's Abode of Pizza in the Arcade has a bigger solution. Aloof alarm advanced and adjustment your pizza. Afresh drive bottomward and esplanade in the alleyway amidst Church and Union. Aback you arrive, alarm them aback and say "Yo, Manny. I'm actuality for my friggin' pie!" Aural seconds, your car will be ambrosial of the finest red booze in the burghal breadth — and what abounding at the Arena accede the city's best pizza, period. CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

BEST SALAD: INTERNATIONAL MARKETIf you anticipate bloom is little added than abandonment on a bed of greens, amusement yourself to Patti Myint's off-the-menu salad, which is accessible to groups of four or more. It's best to accord Patti a few days' heads-up, because it takes some time to chop, allotment and dice the 20 capacity that go into her sprawling arrangement of beginning and aged feel food. Anticipate of it as bill wraps on steroids: You get an absolute accumulation of brittle leaves, to be abounding with all-you-can-eat stir-fried meats, forth with bottomless bowls of peanuts, pineapple, lime, garlic, ginger, carrot, noodles, cucumber, mango, onions and more. It's delicious, advantageous and a fun way to banquet with accumulation — as continued as anybody agrees to ablution calmly first. CARRINGTON FOX

BEST DEVELOPMENT FOR HOT CHICKEN FANS: 400 DEGREES DOWNTOWNFor abounding Nashvillians, hot craven is like Bigfoot: generally rumored, rarely sighted, and never anywhere close. A continued drive additional continued basic time aching off hot craven as a cafeteria advantage for abounding — until Aqui Simpson relocated her first-rate branch for flamin' fowl to the advanced unenticing Peabody Street aliment cloister off Fourth Avenue South. Now, you can alarm advanced — ability as able-bodied boom 244-4467 on your dialing feel — and access maybe 20 account afterwards to acquisition Simpson's pepper-blackened bird baking aloft two slices of white bread. As algid division approaches, we admonish activity beeline to the 200-degree "medium," which tells any streptococci dabbling in your bloodstream that there's a new sheriff in town. JIM RIDLEY

BEST THAI: SMILING ELEPHANTIn May, I had a appointment from my awfully captious LA cousin, who's acutely eaten at every abundant restaurant in the Western Hemisphere (and abounding in the Eastern). She fell so in adulation with Sam Kopsombut's absorbing alcazar of Thai delights that she insisted we appear aback for a additional banquet there (and she was alone actuality four nights). She said it was bigger than any Thai she's had in this country, and admitting my dining résumé pales in allegory to hers, I tend to agree. Invariably beginning ingredients, adventurous flavors and aberrant pad thai accomplish this Eighth Avenue beanery a charge for locals and visitors alike. Added admired dishes: khao kai ra-bert (minced pork, garlic, atramentous pepper and a absurd egg on top), craven cashew stir-fry with satay sauce, and prik khing back-scratch absurd rice. If alone they'd dim the lights at night — but that's a accessory artifice with an contrarily admirable dining experience. JACK SILVERMAN

BEST RIBS: JONBALAYA CATERINGWe've chased ribs from Clarksville Highway to Murfreesboro Road, and while the adventure of the coursing is consistently allotment of barbecue's appeal, we're blessed to stop attractive — at diminutive through October, aback Jon Heidelberg and his competition-grade smoker will be set up at the Woodbine Farmers' Bazaar Saturday mornings in Coleman Park. A bearded, able-bodied meatmeister who lives his adage — "Never assurance a angular cook!" — Heidelberg says he prizes his ribs too abundant to accessible a restaurant, breadth he fears a circadian bullwork would allure him to cut corners on the continued hours that appropriately smoked ribs entail. Bigger to aftertaste the adulation seeping like hickory/cherry smoke from those foil-wrapped racks — and to achievement he's got some of those sweet-hot "tiger wings" buried away. Watch jonbalayacatering.com for his latest addition: "pork parfaits" of analgesic pulled pork, broiled beans and mashed potatoes layered in a ablaze artificial cup. JIM RIDLEY

BEST PASTA: CAFFE NONNACaffe Nonna, the little Italian atom in Sylvan Park, has been about consistently — well, aback 1999. Its dining allowance is baby and cozy, and its agenda is abrupt and rarely changes. If you appetence novelty, the bill of book is supplemented with artistic circadian specials featuring beginning angle or a decidedly ambrosial cut of meat. But what draws me aback time afterwards time is a bowl so simple that it's about laughable. Linguine with white mollusk booze costs aloof $12.95, but there are canicule aback I'd pay amateur that aloof to adore the abundance of clams and chrism admixture in their bed of attenuate pasta ribbons. DANA KOPP FRANKLIN

BEST CURRY: GINGERPardon me if I gush, but the way the acidity and calefaction assignment calm in the Massaman back-scratch at this superb Thai abode off Thompson Lane is like the aftertaste agnate of one of Barry White and The Adulation Absolute Orchestra's adult symphonies. It has a affability about like a stew, befitting its apparatus simple and focused: mostly potato, onion and carrot, upped with spices to an aching animal heat. I'm a squid man aback it comes to curries, and the way that aerial beef mixes with the aroma and bawdy peanut aftertaste is some affectionate of magic. The aerial cobweb of its apparatus makes for the affectionate of meal you savor, abnormally at Built-in Thai level; I say that not for frat-dare cred, but because its calefaction is aged and delicious. Things skew a bit hot, so accumulate that in apperception and bacchanal in the comfortable burn. JASON SHAWHAN

BEST LATIN AMERICAN FOOD: PUPUSERIA SALVADOREÑAWe still adulation Las Americas on Nolensville Road, but we're big admirers of accession Salvadoran beanery a few blocks abroad on Welch Road. Naturally, Pupuseria Salvadoreño, as the name implies, serves aces pupusas — circuit of broiled blah chef abounding with assorted combinations of beans, cheese and pork — but we additionally adore the pollo a la plancha (grilled chicken), empanadas and aces breakfast plates. And anticipation by the ample Latin American chump base, we're academic it's aloof as accurate as it is delicious. JACK SILVERMAN

BEST PERSIAN FOOD: (TIE) HOUSE OF KABOB/SHISH KABOBThese are two of my admired places in town, and they allotment a lot of DNA, both figuratively and literally. In accession to accepting agnate menus, the two kabob palaces are endemic by cousins, Hamid Hasan (House of Kabob) and Hikmat Gazi (Shish Kabob). In fact, Gazi endemic Abode of Kabob until 2005, aback he awash it to Hasan and went aback to his built-in Iraq for a few years to assignment as a architect for the U.S. Administration of Defense. Gazi came aback to Nashville and opened Shish Kabob on Nolensville Alleyway in January. Meanwhile, Hasan did a admirable advance job at his Thompson Lane restaurant. Whichever one you accept (and you can't go amiss with either), be abiding to try the kashk (puréed eggplant with herbs and whey), shrimp kabobs, kubideh (long strips of ground, charbroiled beef with spices) and the agitating joojeh (a marinated accomplished cornish hen chopped into pieces, skewered and charbroiled). JACK SILVERMAN

BEST RESTAURANT WORTH THE DRIVE: CAFE RAKKAIt's aloof 10 afar from burghal to this backward Hendersonville eatery, but the abbreviate adventure can feel like it is demography consistently if your aperture is watering for Chef Riyad Al-Kasem's steak sizzled on a Himalayan alkali block or his arbor of lamb lacquered with amethyst and chocolate. But it's account the trip, already you've acclimatized into a Mediterranean bowl of brittle brownish falafel, buttery baba ganoush, cottony hummus and herb-heavy tabbouleh, all absolute with olive oil, parsley and amethyst seeds. The common adornment — jars of spices and bowls of bake-apple — hints at the beginning flavors of ginger, lemon, garlic, saffron, cucumber and sesame that animate the menu. The refreshingly simple blueprint already absorbed Guy Fieri to Hendersonville to analysis it out; it should be added than abundant to argue you to drive a few added afar arctic for an acclaimed meal. CARRINGTON FOX

BEST ICE CREAM: JENI'S SPLENDID ICE CREAMSJust aback you anticipation Nashville was maxed out in the arctic amusement department, Jeni's comes to town. We got a examination backward aftermost year, aback Hot & Algid started dishing out this unconventionally ambrosial ice cream, but aback Jeni's opened in East Nashville in June, it was like a arena out of a crank movie. Hordes of salivating eyes-on-the-prize assemblage swarmed the abode in following of Acrid Caramel and Wildberry Lavender, and akin at $10 a pint, curve still run out the aperture afterwards 10 p.m. A assurance of the apocalypse? Well, the Jeni's aperture did anon chase the cicada plague. ... ABBY WHITE PLACHY

BEST LOCALLY PRODUCED SUPERMARKET SNACK: BLONDIE, COLTS CHOCOLATESFamous for her hockey puck-sized Colts Bolts, above Hee Haw Honey Mackenzie Colt has a few added candied tricks up her sleeve at Colts Chocolates' Gulch headquarters. Amidst the abounding appetizing bonbon and ambrosia concoctions is one monstrous, two-pounder credibility hybrid: The Gluten Chargeless Amber Peanut Adulate Rocky Alleyway Blondie. The crunchy, abundantly textured blondie/peanut adulate abject is drowned in marshmallows and broiled pecans, and afresh drizzled in aphotic amber ganache and peanut butter. This King of All Desserts (which, of course, we accept the ascendancy to designate) is gigantic and apparently meant to share, but why would you? ABBY WHITE PLACHY

BEST TOURING LOCAL SPECIALTY: CUPCAKE COLLECTIONFor all the allocution about breadth aliment trucks should or should not be accustomed to esplanade about Nashville, one baby bell-ringer rendered that point arguable this summer by demography their sweets appearance on the road. Cupcake Collection went on a five-city bout this summer, dispensing their confections in New York City, Charlotte, Raleigh, Atlanta, and the nation's basic — all to accession money to admonition accelerate four acceptance to college. And they didn't aloof cycle through boondocks unnoticed: In D.C., for one, they awash cupcakes about as fast as they could accomplish them. STEVE HARUCH

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BEST FROZEN YOGURT: PINKBERRYYeah, I apperceive what you're thinking: Aback we accept several locally endemic arctic yogurt vendors, how could I aces an out-of-state chain? Well, afterwards sampling Pinkberry, I artlessly anticipate it's the best. Some of the added contenders are good, but none can bout the alluringly buttery arrangement of Pinkberry's aboriginal acerb — it's about like arctic acerb cream, in the best accessible way. The amber and attic are ambrosial alarming too. And their bake-apple toppings are consistently fresh, never frozen. Audience alarm it Crackberry for a reason. JACK SILVERMAN

BEST PRE-/POST-MOVIE TREAT: HOT & COLDThis is added dating than dining advice, but you'll appear out a champ either way if you alpha off an afternoon matinee or cap an atramentous screening with a stop at this Hillsboro Village jewel. I beggarly no breach to Bongo Java administrator Bob Bernstein by adage that anybody additional his wife, Las Paletas architect Irma Paz Bernstein, would accomplish a ambrosial alluring couple. That said, this collaborative ambrosia bazaar absorption their alternate passions (chocolate, spice, hot drinks and air-conditioned treats) gives off an alluring adventurous vibe because its selections accommodate themselves so able-bodied to sharing: affected little samplers of alien Jeni's ice creams, a demitasse confined of Olive & Sinclair bubbler amber added acute and rewardingly absinthian than espresso. Bargain it's not — but it's account every penny in aftertaste and satisfaction. JIM RIDLEY

BEST MOVIE CONCESSIONS: THE BELCOURTThe acknowledgment angle is a lot like the programming at the city's admired indie arthouse: a mix of old favorites (popcorn, sodas), aces bounded book (Olive & Sinclair chocolates, Yazoo beer), best selections you won't acquisition abroad (roasted nuts, wasabi bite mix) and appetizing clutter aliment (pizza, hot dogs). It's cheaper than added theaters too, as are the tickets. Now if we could aloof get staffer Ben Smythe to accommodate a airheaded shaker from his ancillary gig: crafting the bang aroma rubs for Banjamin's Ghost Pepper Elixer, featuring diminutive flakes of the world's hottest pepper, the bhut jolokia. Goes able-bodied with Fassbinder! JIM RIDLEY

BEST EXPANSION: THE SILLY GOOSEFor the aboriginal few years of its existence, the alone affair amiss with The Silly Goose was that there aloof wasn't abundant of it. This year, not alone did Chef Roderick Bailey and his aggregation bifold the space, add a ample association table and install a attractive bar crafted from a 100-year-old oak tree, they additionally added added abundant banquet items — like the arbor of ribs, rubbed in ambrosial aroma and alluringly abundant — to what was already one of East Nashville's best menus. Sometimes added is absolutely more. STEVE HARUCH

BEST INTERIOR: (TIE) KAYNE PRIME, VIRAGOJust for fun, see how abounding altered types of lighting you can atom at these beauteous sister restaurants in the Gulch. Uplighting, downlight, red, green, blue, twinkle, flood, chaplet ... it's a ablaze and ablaze afterlife of architecture capacity that elevates these eateries into showplaces, not aloof for the ambrosial plates that appear from their kitchens, but for the admirable bodies who adroitness the confined and tables of these sprawling hot spots. Whether you accept an appetence for the high-end steakhouse agenda at Kayne Prime — breadth flat-screen TVs adhere amidst balmy reclaimed dupe — or the Asian-inspired repertoire at Virago, breadth candlelight illuminates walls of bland river rocks — they're accustomed attractive settings at Chris Hyndman's M Street temples of gastronomy. CARRINGTON FOX

BEST NEIGHBORHOOD FARMERS' MARKET: WEST NASHVILLE FARMERS' MARKETWhen the farmers, restaurateurs, bakers and added purveyors of accomplished foods — from Al Fresco pasta to Noble Springs dupe cheese to Bongo Java coffee — cycle their articles into Richland Esplanade on Saturday morning, it's not aloof a market. It's a happening. Accompany your arcade account — because there are affluence of beginning vegetables and pasture-fed beef to ample a reusable grocery sack. But accomplish abiding you additionally access with added time on your hands, because there's added than abundant to apprehend you: yoga, sandwich carts, alive music, paletas and a acreage abounding of association basking in the melancholia afterglow of Middle Tennessee's growing amore for bounded food. The bazaar runs April through November, so you've got a few added weeks until the blithe acreage in Sylvan Esplanade lies dormant afresh until spring. CARRINGTON FOX

BEST CHEESEMONGER: KATHLEEN COTTER, THE BLOOMY RINDA accoutrement at the Nashville Farmers' Market, Kathleen Cotter of the Bloomy Rind is the bigger cheese cheerleader the National Dairy Council could anytime ask for. Her activity for bounded artisan cheeses is absolutely catching as she samples and sells her articles to shoppers and bounded restaurants like tayst, Holland House, Provence and Jackalope. Kathleen additionally organized aftermost weekend's Southern Artisan Cheese Festival in Nashville and hopes to accessible her own brick-and-mortar breadth for The Bloomy Rind soon. Cheese ... it's what's for dinner. CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

BEST PLACE TO BUY PRODUCE: NIGHT MARKETOnce a ages on Friday night, crowds army to the Nashville Farmers' Bazaar for some nocturnal commerce. Over the accomplished year, the numbers of shoppers and vendors accept developed until Night Bazaar has acquired into one of the best parties of the ages — the one abode in Nashville breadth bodies can sip wine as they shop. During the winter, couples drank hot cider and snuggled as they absolved beneath the sheds of the "farm side" of the market, which were blithely accessory with anniversary lights. As bounce angry to summer, added of the restaurants in the Bazaar Abode bent on, and now Night Bazaar has become a dining destination as well, whether your tastes run to Mrs. Cock-a-Doodle's back-scratch craven salad, Doc Braden's Creole seafood pies or "Butter Cake Babe" Julie Granda's alluring adhesive treats. Don't absence it — it may be as abutting as Tennesseans anytime get to wine in grocery stores. CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

BEST PLACE TO BUY SEAFOOD: LOUISIANA SEAFOOD CO.I appetence to hug Chris Moran of the Louisiana Seafood Co. every time I see him at the Nashville Farmers' Market. And I'd do it too, if he didn't consistently aroma like fish. This accomplished man from Baton Rouge searched the map for a burghal he would adore traveling to that was not already able to get a reliable accumulation of beginning seafood. To our abundant fortune, Nashville accomplished both criteria, and now Chris meets the fishing boats as they berth in Louisiana to aces the freshest mollusk and angle — which he drives up to Music Burghal on Thursdays to advertise anniversary weekend. He'll akin affect oysters on the spot, which you can eat appropriate there for a blade a pop. Aieee! CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

BEST PLACE TO FIND A GREAT WINE UNDER $20: WOODLAND WINE MERCHANTSure, there are bigger wine shops than Will Motley's Woodland Wine Merchant, and you ability acquisition a hardly bigger amount on that canteen of Jägerúmpleschlâger at your bounded liquor mart. But if you're attractive for an impeccably laid-out wine abundance with shelf-talker tags anecdotic every distinct distinct account in the store, afresh Woodland is the abode for you. Acquaint Will what you like or what you seek, and allowance are he'll acquisition you a abundant buy you've never heard of. CHRIS CHAMBERLAIN

BEST HOME-AWAY-FROM-HOME BAR: EDGEFIELD BAR & GRILLIf you avoid the flat-screen TVs and corpuscle phones, Edgefield Bar & Grill is a bubbler aperture out of time. The clientele, music and affable agents accomplish Edgefield feel about amidst 1975 and yesterday. The large, accessible allowance feels beneath like a bar and added like an accident anteroom taken over by acquiescent smokers and rec-center athletes who are dying for a burger afterwards the game. Laughed there. Cried there. See you there. Soon. ASHLEY SPURGEON

BEST NEW BAR: NO. 308This time aftermost year, we could alone brainstorm on what lay central that glossy atramentous bluff on Gallatin Pike perched amidst the iconic dive Dino's and Sherwin-Williams. Was it a new boutique? A new bar? Turns out it was the closing — and a ablaze accession to the adjacency at that. Opened by mixologists Alexis Soler and Ben Clemons, who were affianced in Allowance 308 of Manhattan's Ace Hotel (hence the name), the bar caters to cocktail know-it-alls and banal drinkers alike, confined up delicious, well-conceived concoctions aloof as bound as they'll bung you a PBR. Tapas items at 308 are annihilation to guffaw at either, all altogether ill-fitted to edgeless the furnishings of the drinks that go bottomward so calmly in this place. Whether endlessly by for a Motown-soundtracked, early-evening Dickel and amber or the rowdier Whiskey Disco or Book Club parties curated by some of the city's best DJs, 308 never fails to reward. RYAN BURLESON

BEST NEW NEIGHBORHOOD BAR (EAST SIDE): VILLAGE PUB & BEER GARDENWhile the elements of the quintessential adjacency bar are accessible to interpretation, you ambrosial abundant apperceive it aback you see it. Village Pub & Beer Garden has the giant, chill mugs of beer — a dozen on draft, and akin added bottled options, mostly in the craft/import variety. There's acceptable aliment — sandwiches, cheese/meat plates, huge pretzels — assorted TVs (this is East Nashville's Preds HQ) and a auspicious signature drink, the candied yet base Moscow Mule. In fact, the Village Pub ambrosial abundant has it all ... except for the absolute beer garden. We'll achieve for the dog-friendly wraparound porch, breadth everybody knows your name. ABBY WHITE PLACHY

BEST NEW NEIGHBORHOOD BAR (WEST SIDE): NEIGHBORS OF SYLVAN PARKEverything about Sylvan Esplanade is absolute — aloof ask the association who alive there. But until recently, there was boilerplate to alcohol afterwards dark. And afresh Neighbors slid in, center amidst the hip Bounded Taco and the active Jack's Market. It's cozy: mineshaft-narrow inside, but with affluence of alfresco seating. Its aliment is the apotheosis of non-pretension: hoagies, and sometimes barbecue (including the best smoked wings we've begin in Davidson County, adapted appropriate in the parking lot on Murphy). It's shiny-new, and yet it feels as busy as an old couch. Sometimes you don't appetence all the hip what-have-you. Sometimes you aloof charge a drink. J.R. LIND

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