Restaurant Wednesday

tayst Restaurant and Wine Bar
As Nashville's first and only certified green restaurant tayst provides primarily local, sustainable food served in a playful manner. This little neighborhood restaurant with the fancy food lives the motto, "Eat local, drink global."

location
2100 21st Avenue South
Nashville

taystrestaurant.com

Restaurant Wednesday

At Noshville, Authentic New York Delicatessen, the goal is to prepare and serve the highest quality food in a friendly, comfortable atmosphere. Noshville has four convenient locations, and the house rules are simple: "Check your cares at the door, order with reckless abandon, and indulge your senses in the life that is Noshville"

Breakfast is served all day, along with robust delicatessen sandwhiches, hearty homemade soups, refreshing salads and delicious desserts. Voted Best Delicatesssen since 1996. Noshville's friendly professional staff, comfortable atmosphere and great food will keep you coming back for more. "Make Your Mother Happy...Eat and Enjoy!"

Locations:
Cool Springs, Green Hills, Midtown, Noshville Airport
noshville.com

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Sunset Grill

Located in the heart of Hillsboro Village, Sunset Grill is the jewel in the triple crown of Nashville's most successful independent restaurateur, Randy Rayburn. The California-influenced cuisine has remained contemporary and fresh for almost two decades with daily specials that lure diners off-menu. Sunset serves 65 wines by the glass and 500 by the bottle. Offering free shuttle service to downtown hotels.

2001 Belcourt Ave
Nashville

615.386.3663
sunsetgrill.com

Rumba

Tropical flair and low-lit intimacy combine with top-notch Latin, Asian and Caribbean cuisine at rumba, where globe-trotting tastes have found a home on West End. Sip a hand-muddled mojito or caipirinha on one of the double patios or at the main bar, then relax in a secluded booth with a meal for afar.

Location:
3009 West End Ave
Nashville

615.321.1350

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Ombi is a warm, modern space on Elliston Place, bringing contemporary dining to Midtown Nashville. Chef Jason Love and bar manager Terrell Raley serve inventive and flavorful food and cocktails.

Location:
2214 Elliston Place
Nashville

615.320.5350
ombirestaurant.com

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Although PM could be considered Thai-fusion, most of the fare created by chef/owner Arnold Myint incorporates flavors from all around the globe. From creative cocktails, boutique wines and speciality beers to curries, burgers and sushi, the menu has something to offer everyone.

location:
2017 Belmont Boulevard
Nashville

615.297.2070
pmnashville.com

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Since 2003, MAFIAoZA's has wowed capacity crowds nightly with its authentic Italian menu, its impressive Old and New World wine list and its comfortable, welcoming ambiance. In the style of a 1920s New York-style Italian restaurant, MAFIAoZA's serves the finest stone-oven pizza in the Southeast and other authentic Italian dishes using only the freshest ingredients.

location:
2400 12th Avenue South
Nashville

615.269.4646
mafiaozas.com

Baja Burrito

Baja Burrito is a locally-owned, no-nonsense burrito shop in the eclectic neighborhood of Berry Hill, a community of artisits, musicians and merchants. In business since 2000 Baja is Nashville's hometown favorite for mission-style burritos, award-winning fish tacos, and build-your-own salads.

location:
722 Thompson Lane
Nashville

615.383.2552
bajaburrito.com

Restaurant Wednesday

The Germantown Cafe is just block from downtown, TPAC and LP Field, Germantown Cafe offers fresh, comfortably creative, reasonably priced food, along with an amazing view of the Nashville skyline. The Cafe is the perfect choice for pre-theatre dinners, casual nights out on the town, power lunches or lazy Sunday brunches.

Location:
1200 5th Avenue North
Nashville

615.242.3226
germantowncafe.com

Restaurant Wednesday

The Acorn features two floors of dining, private rooms, two full bars and a large outdoor patio. The Acorn offers Americdan cuisine with a global flavor. Independently owned and conveniently locatd in the West End District.

Location:
114 28th Ave North
Nashville

615.320.4399
theacornrestaurant.com

Gwyneth Paltrow, Tim McGraw movie to begin filming in Nashville

An Academy Award-winning actress and a multi-platinum selling country hunk are teaming up on a project that is bringing an injection of cash to some Nashville-area businesses.

No, it’s not Nicole Kidman and Keith Urban.

Gwyneth Paltrow and Tim McGraw are starring in a $15 million movie that begins production this week in Nashville. The production company, Screen Gems, planned to hire local residents for 75 percent of the film’s crew and 90 percent of its cast (an open casting call was in December). The movie also stars Garrett Hedlund of Friday Night Lights (the movie, not the TV show), and Leighton Meester of Gossip Girl.

“I am thrilled the director and producers of 'Love Don’t Let Me Down' have chosen Nashville and its residents to help bring their story to life,” Perry Gibson, executive director of the Tennessee Film, Entertainment and Music Commission, said in a news release. “Having a production of this magnitude in our state will provide a significant number of jobs for our production community and the project’s spending will provide a real boost to the local economy.”

Photography is expected to last through the first week of March. Pre-production began in November and post-production is expected to end in April.

Screen Gems said it expects to spend $7 million to $8 million in Tennessee, which should qualify the company for a 32 percent refund on qualified expenses thanks to incentives offered by the film commission and the state Department of Revenue.

Writer and director Shana Feste describes the movie as “a rising young singer-songwriter (Hedlund) who becomes involved with a fallen country singer (Paltrow). As they embark on a career resurrection tour with her husband and manager (McGraw) and a beauty queen-turned-singer (Meester), romantic entanglements and old demons threaten to derail them all.”

Restaurant Wednesday

Midtown Cafe is known as the place for a power lunch as well as a favorite choice for couples wanting an intimate romantic evening. Midtown Cafe offers great, unpretentious food under the precise eye of Executive Chef Brian Uhl. Fifty wines by the glass and 150 by the bottle keep Midtown on the top of every "Best of" list. Free shuttle services for downtown hotel guests.

Location:
102 19th Avenue South
Nashville

615.320.7176
midtowncafe.com

Free wireless network planned for downtown

Businesses will be able to extend Tech Council's coverage beyond core
Email | Print By Erin Lawley


01-07-2010 2:32 PM —
The Nashville Technology Council is planning to create a free wireless Internet network in Nashville’s central business district that could eventually be expanded through the city.

Council President and CEO Tod Fetherling told NashvillePost.com today that the organization wants to implement a wireless mesh network from networking company Meraki. In its pilot phase, the system should provide a free outdoor signal within a 0.9-mile radius of the system’s main transmitter, which would be located at the Tech Council’s headquarters at Third Avenue and Commerce Street. That roughly encompasses the area between Interstate 65 in the east, Interstate 40 in the west, Bicentennial Mall to the north and past Korean Veterans Boulevard to the south.

Businesses on the outskirts of that coverage area then could buy smaller transmitters, or “nodes,” that would mesh with the network to extend the signal outward. Companies would connect the transmitter to their existing network and partition off as much bandwidth as they’d like to contribute to the public network, Fetherling said.

“So as we go out the corridors – West End Avenue, Gallatin Road, Murfreesboro Road – businesses every mile or so can put one of these units in and it extends the WiFi circuit out there,” Fetherling said.

Businesses stand to benefit from providing free connectivity to Nashville’s visitors, Fetherling said. For one, business travelers will be able to work remotely without having to search for a coffee shop, and all visitors will be able to find a coffee shop or any other business more easily when they’re out and about.

“We build streets to connect people to do commerce. It’s the same reason we need a WiFi network – to do commerce, to connect people and make it easier for them to get from point A to point B,” Fetherling said.

To start, the program will go through a month-long pilot period that will begin later this month or in early February. The launch will cost about $3,100, which covers a couple of main transmitters and a solar-powered unit that could be used for outdoor events. Participating businesses would pay a one-time fee of $200 for a node to connect to the network.

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Restaurant Wednesday

Jackson's is a bustling corner bistro in historic Hillsboro Village, Jackson's offers creative comfort cuisine for lunch, dinner, late-night dining and Saturday and Sunday brunch in an eclectic, upbeat, come-as-you-are atmosphere. Choose a seat in the dining room, at one of two bars, or on the sprawling, covered outdoor patio.

1800 21st Avenue South
Nashville
615.385.9968
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Arts: Nashville opens host of music, art venues

Music City broadens cultural offerings beyond the honky-tonks
Nashville Business Journal - by Linda Bryant Contributing Writer

At the turn of the millennium, Nashville’s downtown was known for its honky-tonks, but fine arts — or any other art form other than country music — weren’t part of the Music City brand.

Flip the calendar forward 10 years to Jan. 1, 2010, and there’s a different way of life percolating in the downtown core. The artistic and cultural choices have broadened. Downtown residents have increased from about 500 in 2000 to about 5,600 in 2009.

The expansion and addition of arts venues since 2000 include the $23 million Frist Center for the Visual Arts, which opened as Nashville’s first major visual arts museum in 2001. A wave of growth followed.

“We were not thought of as an arts town,” said Ken Roberts, former chairman of First American National Bank and president emeritus of the Frist Foundation. “But in the past 10 years, we have become a great arts town, far better than the community knows. I don’t think you can measure the amount of people who have come here because of it.”