The Road, No. 20: TNT's Billiards, Bar & Grill [Eating Our Way Down Nolensville Pike]

Welcome to The Road, my column in which I'm going to attempt — key word: attempt — to eat at every non-chain restaurant on Nolensville Pike between I-440 and the county line. I'll readily admit that even though I live right off Nolensville — Paragon Mills represent! — and revel in the diversity and quantity of its eateries, I have barely scratched the surface of what the strip has to offer. But now I'm going to rectify that, and hopefully you'll join for what's likely to be a wild ride.

Episode 20: TNT's Billiards, Bar & Grille

Address: 4523 Nolensville Pike

Phone: 315-5400

Going to TNT's was not my idea — all credit goes to my buddy and fellow culinary adventurer/day drinker Wes Lewis. He had the eagle eyes that noticed a bar had opened next to the ghost-Lowe's — where the Social Security office used to be, one of the many big-box carcasses sprinkled through the neighborhood — and then actually made me follow-up on my promise to check it out with him. Good lookin' out, good lookin' out. TNT's was not what I was expecting — when checking out a new spot in a weird locale, it's best to keep expectations low — and I honestly think we may have stumbled upon a diamond in the rough. Or maybe not a diamond, but definitely a bar with plenty of pool tables, cheap beer and a killer pork chop sandwich. I'll take a pork chop sandwich over a diamond any day.