Three Things In Nashville Not to Miss This Month
- Butcher & Bee Resets: After a decade of success, Butcher & Bee is not resting on their laurels. The dining room has gotten a new coat of paint, better lighting, updated furniture, and most dramatically, a completely rebuilt back bar featuring custom cabinetry from a local craftsman. The Mediterranean- and Middle Eastern-inspired menu has been updated too. Maintaining an emphasis on vegetables, the kitchen reaches to new regions for inspiration, resulting in dishes like green garlic chimichurri on fried potato cash rolls. Adventurous diners can try the “Roll the Dice With Spice” game of culinary risk: a plate of bite-sized spanakopita tarts comes to the table — and one of them packs an extra-spicy punch.
- How Music City Does Brunch: Nashville is known as Music City, USA, and the Tennessee Department of Tourist Development has just launched an initiative called “Tennessee Sound Bites” to promote the important bonds between music and the culinary arts. So it definitely makes sense that Ella’s by Christian Petroni, located in the Hyatt Centric, has started a new Live Music Brunch series every Saturday from 11 a.m. until 2 p.m. Enjoy performances by local tunesmiths while dining on ricotta pancakes, tiramisu French toast sticks, prosciutto Benedict, eggs in purgatory, and more.
- Midday Meal at Audrey: Chef Sam Jett of Audrey has brought lunch service back to his Appalachian-inspired East Nashville restaurant, refining the menu to offer exciting new dishes separate from dinner and brunch offerings. Seasonal ingredients are at the forefront of most dishes, and interesting fermentation techniques offer a nod to traditional Appalachian food preparation methods. Tangy fermented and grilled bread with pumpkin butter is a delightful way to kick off the meal. Small vegetable-forward plates can be combined to create a meat-free meal or shared as family-style side dishes for the table. Live-fire cooking takes center stage, featuring proteins such as flank steak, trout, barbecued chicken, and a popular cheeseburger grilled over hickory wood. Housemade root beer steeped from burdock root and sarsaparilla makes for a refreshing beverage option or the base of a root beer float for dessert.
New to the Hit List (March 2026)
Butchertown Hall, Halls Catch, Sadie’s, Two Ten Jack.
