Originally Posted by
marais
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.
There were a few of those downtown--the Pie Wagon and the US Diner (next to the then-Post Office) come to mind.