#brown's diner

[soundslikenashville]

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[mollybrooks]

did some illustrations for a really interesting nashville scene piece about a cook/bartender at a famous local dive. click through to see the rest!

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Finished Meal, Nashville

[jerjohns]

This I Love: Brown's Diner in Nashville, TN

On Tuesday night, my 5YJ host for Nashville area-Nick, asked me what I wanted to eat. My answer was one of my favorite things - A Diner. I love experiencing diners. They usually have a great variety of food, are a relaxed setting, and are most usually places that local frequent. So, diners are right down my alley. 

Anyway, he did quick look on his phone to find local diners and came across Brown's Diner. He had never been, but it had great reviews and so we figured we would find it and give it a try. The photo above is what we walked up to once we arrived-what looks like a trailer bar with beer and liquor neon lights in the window. We debated even entering and eventually went in. Haha. I'm glad we did. 

Brown's diner is a restaurant that is two old trolly carts pushed together. It's much larger than the photo depicts. You enter into the bar area, walk around the corner to the dining area. It is everything you would expect from an old country joint or "hole in the wall" restaurant. It reminded me of being back in Kansas, Oklahoma. There was this restaurant-The Harvest House that was a local favorite (it was just about the only restaurant in town)...anyway, it had the best damn all you can eat catfish on Friday nights. The line out that door to get in for the catfish, you'd think they were giving away cash or something. I dunno, something. It was good catfish and the restaurant was an old country joint. The locals love it. Brown's Diner reminded me of that place. 

After we finished our meals (I had catfish, Nick had "the best burger in Nashville" per the waitress advice) the waitress spent a good 20 or 30 minutes telling us about the history of the the place.  She had worked there for 20 something years and wasn't one of the owners. She just loved the place, the customers, and her coworkers. She told us about the different country music stars that had come in (Vince Gill, Trisha Yearwood, Faith Hill, Amy Grant...among others). Nashville is like a country Los Angeles, seriously. 

Anyway, everything about this place was on spot. Ignore the fact that the front looks like a trailer home and that you walk into what seems like an old country bar in order to get to the dining area, but it's actually part of what makes this place so special. If Nashville, it's a must! That's all. It's a must!