Originally Posted by
BNA_flyer
Loveless Cafe, Nashville--the best country ham and biscuits anywhere, and it's right around the corner from where I used to live; people would travel hundreds of miles to have their photos taken in front of the sign, and it was my neighborhood restaurant. I miss it.
Yes, Loveless in BNA is still good for country ham breakfasts, and for lunches too (love their chicken livers
), but a couple of decades ago the family migrated toward Wendell Smith's on Charlotte Pike for the communal breakfast fix. To me, it's both the quintessential breakfast joint and the best meat'n'three (even better than the nearby Sylvan Park) in BNA. Regrettably, it's on the other side of town from the airport (as is Loveless) so a car rental with GPS would be in order for access to casual visitors.
I remember back in the early '80s, regularly hitting a nondescript breakfast spot downtown in BNA near City Hall for biscuits and gravy before work, with a side of sliced tomatoes. It left me with a sense of probity and direction after such an unctuous morning meal that lasted me the whole day. Older now, sometimes I yearn for that same sense.