nashville – The Lakeside Chowdown

Caney Fork River Valley Grille

Sometimes I just want a traditional dining experience. Sometimes I want to just sit down at someplace familiar, order my food, eat my food, and get out. And sometimes, I want to go on an adventure. I need to be bold enough to visit a place that just seems so outlandish and wacky that I wouldn’t bother trying it otherwise.

Enter Caney Fork River Valley Grille. Under normal circumstances I would be hesitant to try a restaurant where you can see live catfish and also eat meat from elk, gators, and basically many different kinds of animals. But I was in the area and thought it would be as good a time as any to try it.

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The Wild Cow

There’s something about these wooden restaurant signs I find really neat.

My sister is a vegan. I love meat. We have no issues with each other’s diets, but when she comes to town it’s inevitable I’ll have to eat some vegan food at some point. I’m generally fine with that, but there’s one thing I completely refuse to eat: vegan dairy substitutes.

The Wild Cow is a restaurant we always eat at when she’s in town. It’s a vegetarian restaurant, not strictly vegan, so I don’t have to worry about trying too hard to avoid nut-based cheese substitutes. When we go here, basically everyone wins.

So let’s take a look at the place, shall we?

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Veggie Village

When I started the Lakeside Chowdown, I already knew a number of local restaurants I had visited previously that I intended to include. None of them, however, had quite the same effect on me as Veggie Village. The food, service, and atmosphere were all unlike anywhere else I’d ever visited.

So, naturally, I had to share my visit.

It might not look like a restaurant, but it is!

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Old Hickory Steakhouse

You’re in for a treat today. Over the weekend, I stayed at the Gaylord Opryland hotel and managed to get into the Old Hickory Steakhouse for dinner. The resort has a number of unique independent restaurants, all of them listed in a pamphlet detailing their hours and approximate price range, indicated by a number of dollar signs. Not only is the Old Hickory Steakhouse the restaurant with the most dollar signs, but it’s also the only restaurant listed with three dollar signs.

Suffice to say, this is the most expensive restaurant I will review for this blog.

I want to make it clear that this is where I ate.

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