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8400 Highway 100
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It's always great to get to visit an institution. It's been around since 1951 and while it's changed owners several times (including a relatively recent expansion), it seems to have held onto the original charm. There are some big, and little, names and photos of people who have visited over time.
The hostess and waiter were extremely friendly and truly made you feel right at home. The waiter kept checking on us to make sure everything was ok.
I had the traditional biscuits, jam, ham, eggs, hash brown casserole, and red-eyed gravy. The red-eyed gravy came in a side dish - something I've never tried. When I asked what was in it the waiter said without hesitation, "grease, coffee, and molasses...it helps cut the saltiness of the ham." Being a somewhat healthy eater my buddy said my jaw almost dropped to the table. However, it was a very light grease :-) and actually tasted quite good with the ham.
The biscuits were excellent, and went quite well with the three fruit jams that accompanied them. While the eggs were nothing special, they were not intended to be the star of the show. The has brown casserole was a great mix of potatoes, cream, and cheese - quite decadent.
If your up for a good ole' southern breakfast (the also server "supper") then I can't imagine finding a better spot. An added bonus is the Hams and Jams shop, as well as the small stores now residing in the old motel rooms.
Definitely worth the trip!
We finally made it the Loveless Cafe.
I love the biscuits, and jams, and who doesn't if you've been there you already knew that!
But that is not all. The photos of everyone who has visited in the the lobby is wonderful. Really liked the intimate setting during dinner.
The shops are wonderful.
5 Stars for the Biscuits and the Service and the Jams. Everything else was eh, so it get's an average of 3 stars. The service was super friendly and very attentive. Southern hospitality and all in full effect.
The biscuits with the Jams they make for the restaurant and mail order are absolutely worth driving for to taste this little bit of heaven.
Otherwise, the eggs were over cooked, the ham was okay, not great as was the rest of the meal, hash brown casserole was fine. The grits managed to disappear as well. But nothing was that special.
The history of the place and how it has changed hands was quite interesting. It is to me a tiny bit of a shame to turn the Motel into a shopping center, but I guess that is what you call "progress"? So to see this little slice of Americana that is left does give you that quaint feeling of some sense of 'ruralness', makes you appreciate the way things once were. So, go and GET SOME BISCUITS!!!!
After seeing all kinds of good reviews for this place all over the internet, I decided to check it out while in Nashville, and honestly, I don't see what all the hype was about.
Long wait to sit down, 45+ minutes even though there were a ton of tables open. It's all good though, with all the good reviews I read I was ok to wait. Finally sat down and ordered the "famous" chicken along with the macaroni and cheese and hashbrown casserole. The chicken wasn't all that special, I've had a LOT better chicken at quite a few places. Mac and cheese was ok, the hashbrown casserole was awesome. The highly touted biscuits everyone raves about weren't all that great either, at least not so good to warrant why everyone and their mother tells you how good they are. They are about as good as anywhere else I tried while in the south. The jams however were damn tasty.
Prices were on the higher side, but the service once we sat down was pretty quick. I probably wouldn't hit this place again while in town, but if you're lookin for a tourist'ish spot to eat then this is the place for you.
The biscuits, of course, are outstanding. I like the BBQ a lot, and also the fried chicken.
It is a bit of a tourist trap, with really long waits, but the 5 stars are for the food.
I say sh*t, god*amn, this place is NOT to be missed when you are in the area! Biscuits, biscuits, biscuits... so good, I brought ziplocs from home and flew back with a dozen biscuits for my happy co-workers!
Be warned, the wait on weekends is god-awful. Show up, be prepared to be patient and WAIT WAIT WAIT!
I usually order eggs and bacon here and fill up on the biscuits with butter and jam. T had the BLT with fried green tomatoes and that looked amazing. She said it also tasted amazing! Next trip, I'm ordering that!
All the food is good but the biscuits really stand out. Also; I absolutely love the servers - sassy, funny and make you feel like you are at your country granny's house!
They also have a little market/gift shop that you can buy mixes, potato salads and like. I proudly bought some bacon scented air fresheners there!
4.5
Loveless is one of those iconic places that becomes a bit of a tourist destination. I think it potentially gets a little more hype and press than it should for its own good, because it sets unrealistic expectations for some. I've seen it on the Food Network a few times, and the website has a collection of talk show appearances and other press. Make no mistake: their food is very tasty, but there are many other places of a similar quality that don't get this kind of press.
"Great biscuits." That's probably the first thing you hear about Loveless Cafe. Since all of the reviewers here mention them, I won't belabor the point. Yeah, they're great -- I had them bring a second basket out, because I polished off the first before the meal came.
I tried the Pork Barbecue over Cornbread Hoe Cakes with Hashbrown Casserole and Macaroni and Cheese as sides. Yeah, I know: health food. Anyway, it was all excellent. The barbecue was delicious and the hoe cakes were a nice accompaniment. The Hashbrown Casserole was definitely my favorite of the two sides dishes. Both sides were good, but I wish I had ordered a more balanced pair, because both were very cheesy. I also tried some of the pan fried chicken and it was great. Oh yeah, and the coconut cream pie was probably the best I've had. Everything I had here was just great.
The one thing that confused me was the sweet tea: it wasn't as sweet as I would have imagined. I mean, this place calls dinner/luch "supper." I'd have expected the tea to be so sweet it gives you diabetes on contact. Oh well, it's a very minor nit.
Anyway, the main downside to this place is the location and the wait. It is a fair drive from Nashville proper, and since it is somewhat of a tourist destination, the crowds are quite thick on weekends. Definitely take advantage of the call ahead so you can count your driving time against your wait for a table. It helps knock 20-30 minutes off the wait time.
That rare place that lives up to the hype.
Our sweet-as-tea waitress was charmingly Southern until we mentioned that we were visiting from Brooklyn, at which point she cocked her hip and pulled her native Bensonhurst accent out of her back pocket in no time flat. (But she was still as sweet-as-tea after that too.)
We just split a single sampler platter (BBQ, fried chicken, ham, coleslaw, molasses yams) in our determination to save some room for dessert, but alas, even the sampler filled us to the brim. sigh. One of these days we'll go back just to try some pie.
We might have had room for pie but our waitress insisted we have more than one helping of the awesome bisquits with fresh jams and I suspect the biscuits expanded in our stomachs and squeezed out any space for jam. But it was worth it to have the extra biscuits. As the Loveless t-shirts say - "Got biscuits?"
Loveless is an institution. I was there many years ago with my grandparents and it has since be totally redone, but luckily the food is the same down home cookin' I enjoyed when I spent summers in Knoxville as a kid. Get past the hostesses' surly attitudes since they sure didn't exude Southern Hospitality. They looked like they were bothered by us "tourists".
I was in a nostalgic frame of mind and went for the Southern breakfast of eggs, country ham, grits, red eye gravy and biscuits with a side of fried okra and a big glass of sweet tea. I was NOT disappointed. Took me right back to being 10 years old. My guy had the fried chicken and agreed they probably did have the same recipe since 1950-something since it was pretty boring and not as interesting as KFC, but the hashbrown casserole and creamed corn was OSSM! We ate too much, swelled up with all that salt, but heck, who could pass up the Loveless Store for jalapeno bacon and popcorn with bacon chunks to take home to the Northwest?!
Avoid weekends and watch out for all the touring biker-dudes. The place fills up very fast.
Worth the long drive out of downtown Nashville to get here. I offered to marry the owner on the way out.
There were 13 of us, so we split up the tables and my table did the all-you-can-eat family style meal. Everything was kickass. The hasbrown casserole was the balls. Fried chicken was the best I've ever had. And while I've had better pulled pork, I'm not complaining about how good their pulled pork is, it was amazing.
The staff was quick, attentive, and super friendly. We were a rowdy bunch of guys and they didn't mind our antics. I may have gained five pounds that day, but they were well worth it.
Loveless is known for their tasty biscuits, and while I definitely didn't think they lived up to the hype, the rest of our breakfast was delicious! Everyone in our party ordered standard breakfast fare (bacon, eggs, sausage, pancakes, toast, etc.) and it was all fantastic. Loveless is off the beaten path but it's definitely worth the trek!
My cousins and sister could not stop raving about this place. All I heard was "omg the biscuits" and "omg the preserves." I had no idea what was going on. We were just driving and driving in what felt like the middle of no where..until we finally hit the Loveless Cafe and all of it's other businesses.
The entire lot is kinda like it's own theme park for the Loveless Cafe. It's got its own market and some art and craft stores. It's cute. Not my style but it's cute.
Waiting for a table, I decided to mozy around to the market store and there I finally understood that this was THE biscuit place. The one that won in that food network challenge vs. bobby flay. I'm not a bobby flay fan so I was super glad to know that this "Biscuit Lady" (that's what they call her apparently-- I prefer Goddess of Biscuits) triumphed over him in the biscuit challenge. With this piece of information, I was starting to understand my family's hype and got super excited. I already love biscuits but I'm from California where I feel like there isn't many places that specialize in biscuits, so this was very exciting-- finally to eat biscuits that people who know good biscuits think are good biscuits.
So finally we sit down at our table and out come these glorious pieces of heaven- hot and soft and flaky in just the right places. They were bites of wonderful. And damn, I love the preserves tooooo! The mountain of hot biscuits come with three different side jams-- strawberry, peach, and blackberry. I didn't care which one I had because the combination of biscuit and preserve? One cannot go wrong with any of it. Amazeballs!
The only reason I don't give it five stars (Because the biscuits and preserves totally deserve 5 if not 6 stars) is that the breakfast I had was just okay. And the chicken fried steak (or country fried steak--forgot what it's called) was just .. meh. It was nothing special nor it do I think it was worth the prices. I had eggs and sausage and I was quite disappointed. The sausage was burnt and awkward tasting, and the home fries were crispy but just okay. Perhaps it was because of all the quality goodness that the biscuits gave me that the other foods were so bland. Still despite the mediocre food, I'd go back for the biscuits. This time knowing to just order maybe a side of crispy hot home fries, and just chow down on like 10 biscuits and preserves.. Carol Fay-- you are the goddess of biscuits. Good job.
This place is amazing!
My boyfriend and I stopped here on a road trip a year or two back, on the suggestion of a friend. It was Valentine's day, and we only made it in about 30 minutes before they closed, but they were very gracious about seating us nonetheless. I had the tastiest food, friend chicken, fried okra, collard greens, biscuits, sweet tea, etc., and it all tasted great.
Better yet, the waitstaff was hilarious- singing, dancing, chatting with us, etc. We told them that we still had a 3+ hr drive to Memphis that night, so they loaded us up with biscuits, molasses and sweet tea, as we were the last people in there. I think I want to go back to Nashville, JUST to come back here.
This is true Southern American goodness.
Biscuits galore! I loved the biscuits so much that I just got biscuits and gravy and some scrambled eggs. I also started with a chicken biscuit. I love the biscuits!
Our waiter was friendly and since we came in on a Monday morning we didn't have to wait at all.
I love you Loveless Cafe!
Long ago, I used to deny my touristy nature. Call it the arrogance of youth. Call it growing up in Central Florida where tourists are tolerated like mosquitoes and alligators--a part of life, but you don't want to associate with them. As I've grown older, I've accepted that when I leave town, I'm a tourist. I do touristy things, I eat touristy food. No, not Ruby Tuesday's or Olive Garden. That's just dumb. But I will mire myself in what is otherwise known as a "tourist trap." And I'll smile and drink overpriced soft drinks and buy the postcard while I'm at it.
And thus began mine and my wife's visit to uber tourist trap The Loveless Cafe. Originally an old eatery tucked into a motel off the Natchez Trace Parkway, it's since expanded out to the remaining buildings in the motel that now include a food gift shop, a gag-laden trinkets store, a bike shop, an art gallery and a concert hall. You'll be glad for the distractions when you're told to wait an hour (or more) for a table. (Don't worry, the beepers they give you cover the entire grounds.) By the way, since we were eating here on the 4th of July, we were told that the wait wasn't that bad for a weekend.
Oy.
Nevertheless, we were in full tourist mode and the waiting seemed par for the course. But what were we waiting for? Well, based on our orders, a ham steak with red eye gravy breakfast plate and a Bacon, Lettuce and Fried Green Tomatoes sandwich. I honestly wished I could have tried some of the other dishes, but we'd had a huge breakfast and had to order small. (OK, RELATIVELY small.) My BLT was great. The fried green tomato was thick, the outer coating (corn meal) crispy. A few (hipster) places here in ATL also serve this same dish, but the Loveless version beats them by an, ahem, country mile. My greens were tasty, but I prefer mine a little more spicy and a little less sweet. I guess that's what the pepper sauce is for.
My wife selected the ham steak. Being gluten-free, she wasn't able to pick from much more of the menu nor was she able to enjoy the biscuits. Nevertheless, the ham steak was thick cut and as salty as you'd expect. The wife, a big coffee fan, ordered the redeye gravy and was alternated pleased and repulsed by it. As a NON-coffee fan, I was just repulsed, but that's just redeye gravy in general and not Loveless' serving.
And to the biscuits....as a biscuit connoisseur I can definitely tell you these aren't drop biscuits. The wife's granny, an old southern lady who I think was around during the War of Northern Aggression, taught the wife how to make drop biscuits, so that's her frame of reference. I, on the other hand, am more familiar with the flaky, layered kind and these were THAT version. That said, I love Loveless' biscuits. My wife, gluten-free though she may be, cheated a little and had a nibble. She declared them good (even better with sorghum preserves on them), but not as good as granny's. I've got to disagree. Sorry, Granny-in-law, I know you drop it like it's hot, but I gotta side with Loveless here. Four stars.
Tourist trap. The biscuits are small rubber balls. If you want good biscuits, don't order these.
This place used to be great but now it's just a tourist trap.
A landmark. A mecca. A haven. A place where calories never count. Dolly Parton's visage will overlook you, her or Johnny Cash, while you take in the best country cooking you've ever experienced outside your grandma's kitchen. It's a little way out of the way, but worth every mile.
The biscuits are indescribable. Delicate, moist, buttery, the perfect round vehicle for real butter and simple blackberry preserves. The biscuits should be illegal. They are too good to be selling over the table like that. I mean it, when you have your first bite of a Loveless biscuit you will need to take a moment to reflect, not just on the miraculous thing that just landed in your mouth, but on all of life, and how in a world full of suffering and pain and impossibilities, this little biscuit exemplifies pure pleasure.
All the food is good. All of it. But the biscuits rise to another level. World class. Unreal.
I want to fly to Tennessee right now just thinking about them.
This place came highly recommended, and deservedly so - southern fried chicken, mashed potatoes with gravy, and southern greens were perfectly done, and the biscuits and jam hit the spot after a ride on the parkway. A bit crowded, but that's ok - they don't take reservations, and there was a long wait for us - I think calling ahead puts you at the top of the list, so try that. Save room for the pie at the end. Worth it. Vegetarians would probably do best to head back to Nashville and keep looking.
But the menu is decent at identifying the animal products, so give it a go after all.
on my trip to nashville we heard a lot about this quintessential southern food road-side diner. tried their biscuits with sausage gravy and scrambled eggs. The food was delicious, it came quick; the service was very personable and it was quick. The decor was decent and homely, very inviting. Here is the killer though..
The wait.
Expect to wait at least an hour (we waiting 1:30) as this place is very popular. while you wait you can stroll around the gift shops, ham-n-jams and an art gallery.
So the food is good, the restaurant is popular - why I am giving this 3 stars? simple because there isn't THAT MUCH in a biscuit and country ham that will make a 1 hour wait worth it. While yelpers are raving about the food - think about it - this ain't no avant garde french cooking we are talking about. This is down-home southern cooking - ham, fried chicken and biscuits. It doesn't take much culinary ingenuity to get this right and delicious.
So my recommendation - decide for yourself if you think waiting an hour for a cut and dried cuisine is worth your time.
Sadly, I had the delicious looking vegetarian salad - one of very few vegetarian options (not that I expected more), but it fell flat. I'm not sure why, because everything on it should have been delish, but for some reason it wasn't. Props to Loveless, however, for the DIET Mt. Dew on the menu.
The biscuits, however, were a hands-down 5 star. I have had a lifelong aversion to biscuits, but these were amazing, and every one of their jams was delicious too.
The pies we tasted for dessert were also divine.
It wasn't so bad sitting outside with the fans going, and my adorable nephew went to town with the mashed potatoes.
There really isn't much to say about Loveless Cafe that hasn't been said. The place is quaint and has good, southern food. I'm also appreciative of the fact that they serve beer along with all the sweet tea and coke. I'm born and bred in the East TN hills and can make sweet tea like nobody's business, so I don't get too excited about it. Beer at a casual southern restaurant IS something special, though. And so is their fried chicken. It is some of the best I've ever had.The only possible drawback about Loveless is the potential wait, but go on an off-night instead of Saturday/Sunday morning and you'll be fine.
A local landmark. Handy for all the doublewides who live lcally, and there are a lot of 'em. The Diner is one of the reasons why.
Come on, have the house special. Biscuits and gravy. You KNOW what the gravy is made of. Then half a fried chicken; a side of okra. Fried okra; Pecan pie (or bacon drippings, your choice) for desert.
Oh. And all the Mountain Dew you can drink.
The only green thing on my plate or, indeed, the entire table, was my thirty dollars after paying for two. It's a deal; it's a steal; and no calories!
We came here twice-the next day immediately after the day we first tried it. Our funny and oh-so-southern server Rusty recognized us as we were guilty smashing their delicious biscuits into our mouths. Rusty really is a great guy that embodies the southern hospitality well. While some things on their menu are good, but not incredible, their biscuits, mac and cheese, cheesy potato casserole and meatloaf more than make up for it. Their biscuits are what the are famous for and they bring them out with peach, blackberry and strawberry preserves and honey and sorgum can also be brought out upon request. Now that I am in the safety of my own state, I have to admit that the fried chicken and BBQ were just okay. Loveless Care has a Disneyland-esque series of surrounding cabins of merchandise to sell and we almost bought their delicious peach preserves which aren't bad at $8 a jar. The decor within the restaurant is pleasant with their checkered tablecloths and beautifully weathered hardwood floors. The wait on a weekday morning was significant--probably upwards of a half hour. The wait on a weekday afternoon was around 30-40 minutes. But it's worth it.
So good we went twice on our long weekend trip visiting Nashville.
Biscuits with the different jams were awesome - peach was probably my favorite. Add in some sausage gravy (not with the jam of course) and you've now made me a fan of biscuits and gravy. Who needs eggs, just bring on the bacon and the hashbrown casserole. The BACON ROCKS - the flavor was so good we're ordering some online in that bacon lunch pail. Had no idea what hashbrown casserole was until hubby ordered it and it's basically hashbrowns au gratin - cheesy yummy goodness.
Great southern hospitality. There is lots of love for the Loveless.
P.S. Bobby Flay came here for a biscuit throwdown.
Best biscuits and gravy in history. 'Nuff said.
Was driving through TN on a roadtrip with my mom. We had spent a good part of the trip eating fried bits, feeding upon everything that could be deep fried in a greasy vat. Ewww. My stomach had had enough of the bad food, so spending a meal at the Loveless cafe actually felt like medicine for my spent soul.
I tried to play it safe, just by ordering the biscuits and blackberry jam, but upon tasting the FANTASTICness of those biscuits I decided to order some okra, potatoes, and asparagus. All that food felt like it was heaven sent. It smelled and tasted all kinds of great!
I definitely recommend driving to this classic and famously enduring place to enjoy a good meal. They've renovated and changed it a lot since the 60's (my mom says), but it still tastes just as good.
THE best coconut cream pie I've ever had in my life. YUM!
Excellent fried chicken and catfish. Loved the sweet potatoes and green beans. The only thing I didn't care for were the greens because they were just too salty for me. The service was great and we loved it.
Yup! Worth the hype for the biscuits alone. And I was raised on southern biscuits, let me tell ya. Fluffy, soft and almost yeast-like, even a biscuit hater will dive in to these. And forget your cholesterol level for a day and indulge in the fried chicken, juicy, crunchy and worth every calorie.
Do take the advice to call ahead. On a weekday, our wait was 1.75 hours at noon. We came back after 60 minutes and were called within a few minutes of arrival so leave the premises at your own peril. Be sure to squeeze into the lobby and browse the wall of autographed photos of country stars who've enjoyed the biscuits.
After seeing this place featured on The Food Network awhile ago, I've had a desire to go to Nashville and experience the famed Loveless Cafe biscuits and jam for myself. I had the opportunity last week during a spring break trip to Tennessee, and I was not disappointed.
The biscuits. Sweet Jesus, the BISCUITS. Light, fluffy, yet firm and chewy. How do they do it? No one but the owners know, apparently. It's like they took the traditional southern biscuit and gave it to the Buddha, who took it to Nirvana and then brought it back to share with the unenlightened. Seriously, I cannot express in words how impressively delicious these biscuits are. Their preserves are nothing to sneeze at either, especially their blackberry preserves, which were rich and had what tasted like a subtle note of cinnamon in it. Their strawberry preservers were also good, but I found the peach preserves to be kind of bland and too sweet, like they'd boiled down canned peaches to make it.
I also ordered their meatloaf, fried okra, and greens while my friend ordered the southern fried catfish, sweet potatoes, and fried okra. The meatloaf was moist and excellently seasoned with a tangy tomato sauce on top. The greens were also good, but I got a lot of little crunchies in there with them which lead me to believe that they hadn't rinsed them very well. Their fried okra was crunchy, which is a feat since a lot of fried okra I've ordered at other places has been soggy. The bite of fried catfish my friend allowed me to have personified southern tradition. She did say that her sweet potatoes were too sweet, though.
In the end, all the food we had here was good, but the biscuits and preserves are definitely the stars of the show. I was so impressed by them that right after we got done eating I waddled over to the adjacent store and bought two jars of preserves and a bag of biscuit mix. I doubt it will be as good as the real thing, but even a shadow of the glory we experienced that night will make almost all other biscuits pale in comparison.
another great southern food destination. the wait for a table was ridiculous (an hour and 1/2), so we got our food to go (10 minutes) and ate on the picnic tables out front. can't go wrong with the ham, sweet potatoes, and mac & cheese. don't forget the sweet tea...ahhh
I'm sorry, this place really deserves all five stars. It's delightfully off the beaten path, with a nice down-homey (if a bit commercial) feel. Lots of yelpers have begrudged it that last star, but I say it's worth all five. You just need to know how to do Loveless.
Rule #1: Call ahead. Loveless doesn't take reservations, but if you call and say you're on your way they will put your name down for you. It could shave an hour off a really long wait. Yeah, I know it's annoying, but they must be doing something right if they can attract crowds like they do.
Rule #2: Order right. There is only one thing as far as I am concerned. Fried. Chicken. The big order. Easily the best I've had that wasn't home-cooked. Crispy, flaky crunchy, salty skin with little crunchy knobs of condensed batter here and there peeled back to reveal brilliant white tender juicy chicken. I want a piece right now. Add three sides (I recommend the gooey awesomeness of hashbrown casserole, greens with vinegar, and...screw it, double hashbrown casserole). Throw in an endless basket of biscuits and jam, and you are good to go. Man, are those biscuits good. Flaky soft airy buttery happy. Screw dessert. Give me more biscuits!
I just wish it didn't take so long.
Worth the splurge/sacrificing your body, i guess maybe fast before you go?
Everything is delicious, the area is adorable.
Biscuits and the preserves....its hard to stop eating them, i agree they really should be illegal.
Fried Okra really good, same w the mac and cheese, the sweet potatoes with some sort of carmel in it is great too. Delicious pulled pork sandwich!
Love love love this place
Ok.... the biscuits are BOMB. The homestyle jam and sorgum (first time trying) compliment the biscuit very nicely. Heck, I'd go back just for the biscuits!!
The food was okay. The chicken was good but nothing special (little dry) and I was there at around 7ish for dinner. The sides were decent.... the creamed corn was my favorite. The catfish was good but I'm sure you can find better else where. The service was attentive and my drinks were refilled when needed.
But man.... those biscuits.... A friendly couple with their daughter that sat next to me gave me some suggestions for more places to eat. Folks are really nice there in Nashville.
Worth the ride if just for the biscuits and homemade jams. My favorite is Blackberry. Can't say anymore than I love this place. The pulled pork is smoked to perfection,
If it's not enough this place is at the begining/or end of the Natchez Trace in the middle of whats probably one of the prettiest parts of this country.Travel there once I guarantee you'll be back again and again !!!
I was only in Nashville for a short time, so I Yelped for some southern comfort food and was very please when I found Loveless Cafe. It's a little ways out of the city but has a great story and delicious food. It is just the kind of place you go for real sweet tea and hot butter biscuits. The service was mediocre, but the food makes you forget that real quick. Definitely try the cobbler!
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The food is awesome. The biscuits and jam are near perfection. The wait staff is always friendly. The atmosphere is just plain fun.
Thank goodness I don't live in Nashville, otherwise I'd gain 50lbs eating here all the time.
Cheese Grits = Amazing, creamy with the perfect amount of cheese
Fresh Biscuits = best I have ever had, flakey, buttery and light
Homemade peach jam = perfect, and better when eaten with the best biscuit ever
Hashbrown Casserole = more pure fatty yum
Extra 5 lbs and possible heart attack, not cool.
Gourmet Magazine and the Food Network, thank you for letting me know about this gem.
I didn't understand why we were driving so far out of Nashville city to go to this place during a recent visit. After the first bite of biscuit I got it. They serve them to you pretty much first thing. Like getting dessert before you eat your meal. The food is what you'd expect from sumptuous Southern cuisine, home made and simple. I thoroughly enjoyed the honey smoked chicken (special that day), slaw and mashed taters. The sweet tea wasn't bad either. If I ever return to Nashville, this is definitely a place I'll hit up again.
This place is incredibly overrated. I mean, it's decent Southern cooking, but after hearing about it for years and seeing it ranked as one of the best in the South, I finally went there this year. The wait was ridiculous; granted, it was MLK weekend (Sunday), but we waited longer than the hour they predicted. Sure, you can walk around and visit shops full of expensive items most of the Loveless' clientele can't afford (at least, I couldn't), so it's not like you're stuck in one place.
When we did sit down, I was excited to try their infamous biscuits. Well, now I know how Bobby Flay beat them on the Food Network -- they're tiny! Tasty enough, especially with sorghum (you have to ask), but not SPECTACULAR like I've always heard, and this is the reason I say "overrated." I just imagined them to be big and flaky, not little. My omelet was mediocre. My mom got fried chicken and some amazing mac-n-cheese, so I will give them props for that. I also enjoyed their hashbrown casserole. The bloody mary was a surprise bonus as I didn't think they served drinks, but it required a lot of pepper.
I think to call yourself a Nashvillian, you need to eat here once. But once, at least for me, is enough.
Biscuits are one of a kind. they are fabulous!
Other than that food was nothing special to me. Nothing stood out to me..just your same ol' same ol'. Tasted alright.
Great shops around the restaurant. Brought home some goodies from the place right next door. Great selection of jams and all that unusual tasty stuff. Boutique shops around there are neat to go to especially during a long wait on a Sunday..oh yeah.. waits can be huuuge!
Setting is gorgeous.. being on the mountains and all. The drive is breath taking!
Service was alright..here and there I'd get the disappearing act from a waitress.
Price ain't bad...but I'd rather go somewhere else.
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Stuff to do around town for when you are…
My father and I drove from Washington DC to San…
Here's a list of the vendors we used for our July…
Some of our favorite places. We drove from…
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Lay off me I'm STARVING! These are places that…
