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Many deli mavens name Katz's on Houston Street in New York as America's greatest deli.

LAF in the A.M. October 29th, 2014

October 29, 2014 / / 0 Comments

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The Future of Katz’s Deli

The ever-present disquieting thought in the backs of the minds of New York deli mavens, as they wait for their Katz’s Deli slicer to build their pastrami sandwich is, how long can this good thing last? The neighborhood keeps improving, real estate prices keep rising, yet here remains Katz’s, slicing cured meats since 1888. In Jordan Weissmann’s fascinating story for Slate about Katz’s, and its owner Jake Dell, we learn that there are additional financial pressures on the deli business in general. For instance, wholesale brisket prices have tripled since just 1988. Delis pretty much sell cured meat as a loss leader, making most of their profit on everything else. Continue reading

The Grand Central Oyster Bar in New York City has a constantly changing, but enormous, inventory of oysters.

LAF in the A.M. October 26th, 2014

October 26, 2014 / / 0 Comments

A Morning Menu of Stories We Think You’ll Find Interesting

Oysters and Beer in Brooklyn

There are now three franchises of New York City’s venerable Grand Central Oyster Bar: in Newark Airport, in Tokyo, and, since December of last year, in Brooklyn. Currently, the Brooklyn location is running a special fall beer and oyster pairing menu. Four oysters with four five-ounce beers sounds like a great idea and, at $14.95, a great deal too. Read about Kate Kolenda’s experience with the pairings at The Daily Meal. Continue reading

Arnold's roasts three of these each day to be assured of having enough for everyone.

Arnold’s Country Kitchen of Nashville Gets More Love

October 14, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Best Reward for Standing in Line. That’s the category in Nashville Scene’s 2014 Best of Nashville awards, won by Arnold’s Country Kitchen, for their roast beef. It’s available every day and is one of Arnold’s most popular items. Continue reading

Cornbread in Nashville is often made, like pancakes, on a griddle.

A Meat-and-Three Classic

October 11, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Bill Addison is still writing about Nashville for Eater. Here’s an article about three important restaurants in the city. One of them, Arnold’s Country Kitchen, we find particularly interesting. It’s one of our favorite places to enjoy a meat-and-three lunch in the Music City. As Mr. Addison says, “Plush yeast rolls will tempt, but cornmeal hoe cakes flipped fresh on the griddle evoke an even stronger sense of place.” Continue reading

A soul-satisfying four-vegetable plate at Swett's in Nashville: yams, corn, flat beans, mac and cheese

Swett’s Chosen Best Soul Food in Nashville

October 10, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Do you enjoy country-fried steak, meatloaf, and fried chicken? With turnip greens, squash casserole, or mac and cheese? How about sweet potato pie or blackberry cobbler for dessert? If these and other classics of the soul food kitchen appeal to you, and you find yourself in Nashville, head to Swett’s. Nashville Scene has selected Swett’s as the winner of their Best Soul Food award in the 2014 Best of Nashville survey. Continue reading

Hattie B's cinnabar-red hot chicken

Nashville Hot Chicken Face-Off

October 9, 2014 / / 0 Comments

Bill Addison, writing for Eater, does a taste comparison between two Nashville hot chicken giants: the possible inventor, Prince’s Hot Chicken and the 2012 newcomer, Hattie B’s. He says Prince’s is explosively hot but the sides aren’t so hot. Hattie B’s chicken heat is scaled back somewhat, and it’s also a lot drippier. The sides are worth eating, too. Which does he prefer? Read the story. Continue reading

From the Biscuit Love Truck: hot chicken, local honey, house-made pickles, mustard. On a Biscuit Love biscuit. !!!

Biscuit Love Plus

October 3, 2014 / / 0 Comments

If all Ellen Margulies had touted in her Nashville Ledger story about where to take Nashville visitors was the Biscuit Love Truck, we’d have been grateful. How about fresh biscuits filled with Nashville hot chicken, local honey, and house-made pickles?! Or the Wash Park: Bear Creek Farm beef burger topped with pimento cheese and Benton’s bacon jam? Or the seasonal Nathaniel: a griddled biscuit topped with buttermilk cheese and local peaches and honey? Yes, get us to the Biscuit Love Truck! One other recommendation that stood out was Hattie B’s, a hot chicken purveyor that opened two years ago and has become hotter’n a whorehouse on nickel night. Continue reading

Prince's Hot Chicken is Nashville's original fiery chicken purveyor.

Nashville Hot Chicken Coming to NYC

September 24, 2014 / / 1 Comment

Have you ever been to Nashville and sampled the explosively good hot chicken to be found in the Music City? If you’re anything like us, you’ve been left, like an addict, with a permanent yearning for the stuff. Well, New York City, your hot chicken connection will be coming to the rescue, hopefully in spring of next year. That’s when Carla Hall hopes to open her Nashville-themed restaurant. Besides the hot chicken, Carla wants to feature a selection from the vast roster of Southern sides that makes dining in the region so memorable. Ms. Hall began a Kickstarter campaign this week, if you’d like to get in on the action.

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