Cityhouse, Nashville, Tennessee Restaurant Details

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Awesome meal. Compliments to Chris the bartender. The James beard award should go to City House over Husk any day. Note: alcohol tax included in price at City House unlike Husk. $12 vs $23.

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Simple the best restaurant ever. Dinner done right. Ryan was superb.

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Great interiors. Great food. Italian inspired cuisine. They serve a good pizza.

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I was drawn to this place with the lure of Kentucky Whiskey and Bourbon, but enchanted by the entire experience. Southern Food and Italian, not Southern Italian. And here I was all ready to pour down. Good thing my people know me better than I know myself they are becoming more and more foodie by the day and it's great for any out of towner to be shown the ropes by someone who had never used chop sticks before meeting me. Thanks George, you've come a long way and I'm glad you scouted this for us.

Literally half the whiskey's, bourbons I'd never seen or heard of, but wanted to. I'd recently had some bad run ins with the "white dog" and figured it would be better to try something "homegrown". Prichard County White Lightning which unlike most corn whiskey uses white corn instead of yellow. A twist and cringe and a whisper "smoove" and my run in with the white dog was over. Prichards Double Chocolate was complex, slightly undertoned with cacao. Eagle rare 17 yo was the best and priciest, right up there with single malt scotches imo. Velvety, spicy with a controlled sweetness.

So with all this liquor you bet their cocktails were good. Many, single named proprietary coctails like the Samson (sloe berry gin, lemon soda, bitters, grapefruit and vermouth). Now we slowly move into the Italian part of the night.

House curing slami, parm. Lonza, garlic and lemon. Octopus, fennel and fregola. All of these should be found in an upscale Italian restaurant. They have a pizza with peaches and buttermilk cheddar which turned my head twice. I'd never seen anything like it. House made ham, chilies, scallions, wow. The pizza crust was a little weak, but in the spirit of firsts I was willing to pass on that as they do use a stone wood fire oven.

For dinner I split the Half chicken because the celery heart, pecorino and garum dressing sounded enticing. Fermented fish paste in Nashville? Loved the chicken it was perfectly seasoned, but the garum to me tasted more like steaksauce and tasted better on the tri tip which is split than the chicken. Tri tip was crisp, not over powered by the lemon on Worcestershire. Cooked night and hot and not BBQ's like many tri tips.

Service is excellent, loved being schooled on the drinks by the server no less. It's got great décor and a very rooted feeling. You can feel the Italian and the sense the country throughout. I do love how much of what they do is done in house like the ham and salami, herbs and spices I'm also told. Price is up there, not a normal night out for drinks or food level. Open kitchen keeps you entertained a little bit. I don't recall, but someone got a fresh cracked egg on their pizza nearby.

I was extremely jealous by the Sunday menu which is once a week and unique to Sunday only. Boy do they expand their culinary skill adding more to the already diverse menu. The # of snacks they offer on Sunday is like double what they usually do. Nashville is not longer just music, but I may write a country song about City House.

Protip: come for the Sunday menu which is unique and ever changing.

Food:

Other than my gf ordering too many $15 glasses of wine..ha-ha

Seriously the food was money. Frico and scrapple were done really well. Scrapple was flaky with a perfectly charred crust. Pork shoulder. Served on corn with some sauce and seasoning. Think really rich meat loaf with a crispy (not burnt) outer layer. The frico reminded me of saganaki. Was great.

Pig belly pizza w egg. Delish..service was humble and the food spoke for itself. Not pretentious at all but right up there on taste. Very pleased.