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New Southern Cuisine

The Treehouse Restaurant

The Treehouse gives a special meaning to "farm to fork" at this unique, quaint restaurant.  The Treehouse owns a farm 50 miles outside of Nashville where the grow organic produce and heirloom varieties for their menu.  Chef Jason Zygmont, formerly a chef with Hugh Acheson, has recently taken over the kitchen and is turning out... read more

Lockeland Table

Chef Hal Holden-Bache worked through a five diamond kitchen before heading to Nashville to open his own concept after falling in love with the city.  Lockeland Table is in a small, historic building in East Nashville.  The restaurant is small and inviting and has that great neighborhood feel.  Chef Hal brings southern comfort cuisine and... read more

Holeman & Finch Public House

  Chef Linton Hopkins opened Restaurant Eugene, an upscale dining spot that has gained him much notoriety on the Atlanta dining scene.  A few years ago, he decided to open a more casual spot, somewhere the neighborhood could gather for quality pub food in a small, relaxed setting.  The result was Holeman & Finch.  Inspired... read more

Silo, Elevated Southern Cuisine

Silo takes "local" to a new level; not only do they utilize local farms and producers but the build-out of the restaurant was done with all local artisans and designers as well.  The name Silo evokes the principle they built the restaurant around: hard work and enjoying the farms' bounty.  Chef Owners Greenberg and Cercone... read more

Pinewood Social

Benjamin and Max Goldberg, founders of Strategic Hospitality, (The Catbird Seat, The Patterson House, and others), created Pinewood Social as your neighborhood coffee shop, lunch with a co-worker, happy hour/dinner spot all rolled into one with excellent craft cocktails to boot.  Don't forget they also have bowling and bocce ball! This place is on many... read more

City House

Since the late 2000s, Nashville has been surprising the food world with new restaurants that celebrate the traditional South but also blend in global influences. Tandy Wilson and his City House, which opened in late 2007, celebrates his passion for the Mediterranean with the comfort foods of he South. He previously worked for Nate Appleman, then... read more

Fixe: Austin’s Southern House

  Fixe celebrates the soul of the South with Sunday Supper served nightly in a warm and spirited atmosphere. Bringing to life familiar tastes imagined in progressive ways, Chef James Robert and his team pay homage to his roots with an eye to tradition.  A graduate of the New England Culinary Institute in Burlington, Vermont,... read more

Husk Restaurant; A Celebration of Southern Ingredients

Sean Brock might have made his national fame in Charleston, but his roots go very deep in Tennessee. He started gaining the spotlight at Blackberry Farm outside of Knoxville, so after his tremendous success in Charleston at McGrady's and then the fist Husk, he returned to Tennessee to open Husk.  May say this was the... read more

Highlands Bar & Grill

This restaurant is best described as "French technique meets Southern ingredients" in a refined atmosphere set in the deep South.  Serving only dinner Tuesday through Saturday, the husband and wife team have created the go-to spot in Birmingham for special occasions, business occasions, and refined dining for locals. Frank is a celebrated chef who has... read more

Root & Bone in Alphabet City, New York City

Chef Owners Jeff McInnis and Janine Booth both found successful careers in kitchens throughout Miami before deciding to venture to New York to bring their love of Southern cuisine to the Big Apple.  The settled on the up and coming Alphabet City neighborhood, what was once a crime ridden area now boasts unique eateries and a... read more