pleasant view – The Lakeside Chowdown

There’s the phone number for Swezey’s, so I don’t have to write it at the end of this entry. But I’m going to anyway.

I try to stick to Hendersonville, Gallatin, and Nashville when it comes to restaurants to write about in the Lakeside Chowdown. But every now and then, I stumble across a local restaurant outside these three cities that fits all the criteria for an entry in this blog (which is basically 1. not being a chain, and 2. being somewhere in middle Tennessee). Of course, I have to review them because something tells me if I stuck to solely three towns I’d run out of content way too quickly.

Swezey’s (pronounced “SWEE-zee’s”) is a sports bar and pub in Pleasant View, Tennessee. From what I heard from a waitress and further research from the website, the owner, Mike Swezey, worked at Morton’s: The Steakhouse in downtown Nashville as executive chef for years, and left to open his own restaurant. It’s a classic local restaurant story, but the restaurant business is difficult. How does Swezey’s fare?

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