If you have a few minutes — or more likely, a few hours — spend some time with the Scene's annual
Best of Nashville issue, hitting the stands as we speak. Last night's party at the Nashville Farmers Market couldn't have gone better, and it was a lavish preview for the single largest issue in the Scene's history: 264 pages of readers' choices, writers' picks, even a summit meeting between Bites regulars Steve Cavendish and Chris Chamberlain on the state of Nashville barbecue.
Of particular interest to Bites readers will be the Food & Drink section. Yet with all those pages, one got omitted. Every year we bite our nails dreading a mishap as we prepare this beast. This year, an entire page of readers' choices accidentally got mislaid during the production process. All are available online, but we wanted to recognize those left out of the print edition, with our apologies:
Best Liquor Store
Frugal MacDoogal
Midtown Wine and Spirits
RED Spirits & Wine
Best Local Brewery
Yazoo
Jackalope
Black Abbey
Best Local Cake Baker
Sweet 16th
Dessert Designs
Dulce Desserts
Best Meat and Three
Arnold’s
Copper Kettle
Monell’s
Best Mediterranean Restaurant
Kalamatas
Epice
Taziki’s
Best Menu
City House
Husk
Etch
Best Mexican Restaurant
Rosepepper
Las Palmas
La Hacienda
Best Neighborhood Bar
Neighbors
Village Pub
3 Crow
Best New Restaurant
Sinema
Two Ten Jack
Adele’s
Best Patio
The Pharmacy
Rumours East
Virago
Best Pizza
Five Points Pizza
Desano
Pizza Perfect
Best Place for a Business Lunch
BrickTop’s
Pinewood Social
The Southern
We're also already receiving pitches for categories to add and others to restore — such as Best Margarita, won 12 previous times by East Nashville's Rosepepper Cantina. If you have any thoughts, post them in the comments thread below.
