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Nashville is home to one of the country's most impressive food scenes. Here is where to eat and drink in Music City.

No two dining experiences are the same at Chicago’s Intro — that is, if you plan your visits far enough apart. (And with reservations scored only though the restaurant's online ticketing system, you may have to.) The latest concept from Second City–based restaurant group Lettuce Entertain You changes out chefs approximately every three months in…

“I would absolutely like to go head-to-head with the guys from Battersby,” says our man in Minneapolis, chef Erik Anderson in his episode of Vice’s Munchies. But we’re not talking about Iron Chef or softball or Settlers of Catan. Nah, he’s talking fernet shots. And homeboy is pretty much the best at that. Also, cooking…

[caption id="attachment_71415" align="alignnone" width="700" ] Benjamin and Max Goldberg's many successful Nashville ventures include The Catbird Seat.[/caption] In just a decade, brothers Benjamin and Max Goldberg have established themselves as the premier restaurateurs in Nashville, a town that is definitely booming on the national culinary scene of late. Elder brother Ben was the first to…

Here's an excerpt from Mind Of A Chef Season 2, in which Sean Brock takes his buddy Erik Anderson from The Catbird Seat set out to try eating the "extra hot" at legendary Nashville spot Prince's Hot Chicken. "I'm not gonna lie to you man, I'm a little nervous," Brock says to Anderson as they…

We’ve written extensively about our love for the restaurant scene in Los Angeles, with lines and lines about the great ethnic enclaves, late night dining and an emerging downtown scene that doesn’t seem to be letting up. Writing this from our Midtown Manhattan office, with our awesome weather and quirky neighbors, it sort of makes…

As we reported this morning, Thomas Keller was in Nashville yesterday to shake some hands, kiss some babies and answer slightly esoteric questions about his life. “I’d be a retired baseball player,” he said of what he’d be doing if he wasn’t a chef. There was also a blowout “tribute” dinner of sorts, in which…

Michael Roos, tackle for the Tennessee Titans, has been protecting quarterbacks in the NFL since 2005. He's also the first Estonian-born player in the league, as well as one of its most adventurous eaters. As we find out here, Roos frequents Nashville's finest restaurants, including the acclaimed Catbird Seat. He and his wife Katherine are…

Aziz Ansari's love of good food is well documented, on his Twitter page, in magazine articles and in a tour itinerary that seems suspiciously geared toward trying out the country's best restaurants. After the photo of him wielding a big chef's knife before a rack of ribs in a kitchen — he admits to us…

Nashvillians are not known for liking small food. Music City diners prefer “Meat and Three” restaurants where cafeteria trays are heaped high with (un)healthy portions of fried chicken, vegetables cooked with fatback and slices of pie topped with impossibly high dollops of meringue. So when Nashville restaurateurs Max and Ben Goldberg announced that they were…