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Nashville Bars And Construction Sites Have Different Agencies Policing Their COVID Precautions

By Blake Farmer

September 23, 2020

More of Nashville’s coronavirus cases have been traced back to construction sites than to bars, according to new data on case clusters released by the city this week. Yet bars have received far more scrutiny from the Metro Public Health Department, which does not regularly conduct its own inspections of construction sites.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care Tagged With: bars, construction, Coronavirus In Tennessee, restaurants

Nashville Again Eases Restrictions On Bars, But Says It’s Still Worried About Spread On Lower Broadway

By Blake Farmer

September 17, 2020

A sign on Lower Broadway tells visitors to wear a mask or stay home.
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The further loosening is in response to continue improvement of coronavirus metrics. But it also comes as the city is being accused of overblowing the risk of restaurants and bars.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care Tagged With: bars, Coronavirus In Tennessee, John Cooper, Metro Nashville, restaurants

Nashville Loosens Restrictions On Bars And Restaurants

By Blake Farmer

August 13, 2020

A sign in downtown Nashville encourages tourists to wear or stay home.

On Monday, Nashville will allow bars to start serving customers again with a cap of 25 customers at a time, though bar counters will still be closed. The loosening of current restrictions comes as the city has seen a decrease and stabilization of new coronavirus cases.

Filed Under: Coronavirus Live Updates, Health Care Tagged With: bars, Coronavirus In Tennessee, restaurants

Interactive Map: Nashville’s 100+ Black-Owned Food Establishments

By Rachel IacovoneandAmbriehl Crutchfield

June 5, 2020

Reporter’s note: Hey, Rachel here. We featured this article in the NashVillager on Feb. 2, 2024. It’d been a minute (or 1,924,667 to be exact), so I’ve since updated the list to remove the couple dozen businesses that have unfortunately closed since 2020 (RIP Dandgure’s) and added a few new ones. Recent protests have put […]

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music, WPLN News Tagged With: Black owned business, food, restaurants

Movers & Thinkers: Even With Vegan Ingredients, Southern Dishes Can Still Taste Like Home

By Emily Siner

December 17, 2019

Tiffany Hancock of The Southern V

The holiday season comes with memories of food. And for Tiffany Hancock, those memories included a lot of meat, eggs and dairy. “Sweet potato casseroles,” she recalls eating — and not just during the holidays. “You know, the fried chicken, the braised pork chops.” The only problem? In recent years, Hancock started eating vegan.

Filed Under: Arts, Culture & Music Tagged With: food, restaurants

No Chilean Sea Bass Here: A Nashville Restaurant Commits To Sustainable Seafood

By Amy Eskind

May 9, 2018

Listen American restaurants tend to serve only the kinds of seafood diners are most familiar with. But that is proving to be environmentally unsustainable, and the industry is responding. Restauranteurs are embracing a movement to serve sustainable seafood — steering clear of fish that are caught in a damaging way, taking depleted species off the […]

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: NPR One Prioritized Local Stories, restaurants

Nashville’s Hotels And Restaurants Have A Hiring Problem

By Chris St. Clair

October 4, 2017

Listen Staffing is the latest hurdle facing Nashville’s growing hospitality industry, which is set to add over 100 restaurants and more than 3,000 hotel rooms by the end of next year. A sparsely attended career fair at Music City Center on Tuesday reflects a much bigger problem facing the city.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: hospitality, restaurants

Why One Nashville Restaurant Made The Rare Choice To Go Kosher

By Emily Siner

August 28, 2017

Listen For people in Nashville who keep Kosher, following Jewish dietary laws, there’s almost nowhere to dine out. One of the only Kosher-certified establishments was Woodlands, an Indian restaurant on West End — and that closed earlier this year. But now another business has decided to go through the extensive process: Avo, a vegan restaurant housed […]

Filed Under: Business, WPLN News Tagged With: Kosher, restaurants

O’Charley’s Reinventing Itself Under New Ownership

By Blake Farmer

November 28, 2012

The new owners of Nashville-based O’Charley’s have announced plans to sink as much as a quarter million dollars into each of their 213 stores. The prototype formally opened Wednesday in Franklin.

Filed Under: WPLN News Tagged With: O'Charley's, restaurants

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