The Catbird Seat will open in the second floor of Patterson House.
Restaurateur brothers
Benjamin and Max Goldbergare building a small fine-dining restaurant above their popular cocktail palace
Patterson House.The new place, called
The Catbird Seat, will have two chefs in the kitchen: Patterson House veteran Josh Habiger and Erik Anderson, a James Beard Award nominee who comes to Nashville from the restaurant Sea Change in Minneapolis.
The Goldberg Brothers, whose company Strategic Hospitality LLC also owns Paradise Park on Lower Broadway and the events space Aerial, are planning to open The Catbird Seat this fall.
The Catbird Seat will be an intimate 30-seat perch in the second floor of the Patterson House space at 1711 Division St. Diners will sit at a U-shaped chef's bar, where the two chefs will prepare seven-course menus tailored for each guest.
Both Habiger and Anderson are extremely accomplished chefs who have worked in some of the best restaurants in the world. For example, both did stints at Alinea in Chicago.
After leaving Sea Change in May, Anderson did a stage (that's what chefs call educational stints working at top restaurants) at Noma in Denmark, ranked by some as the best restaurant in the world. Anderson was a semifinalist for best chef in the Midwest in this year's James Beard Awards.
Habiger, who first came to Nashville to plan, train staff and launch Patterson House in 2009, has an eye-popping list of credits, including chef de partie at James Beard Award-winning Craft restaurant in New York.
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