One of our biggest struggles since coming to Nashville has been finding good ethnic food. I think that Detroit and Ann Arbor have much greater diversity of both population and restaurant types and, as a result, we got accustomed to having so many great ethnic restaurants to choose from that eating out became an exercise in intellectual debate as we each presented the compelling reasons why the other person should agree to visit our favorite eating establishment.
Being vegetarians here in Nashville makes things even more complicated, it seems. I never even heard of "Meat & 3" as a restaurant category before I moved here, and there's quite a number of options within that genre represented in our fair city. Granted, a vegetarian can eat something (grilled cheese, salad, side veggies, baked potato, etc.) almost anywhere, but when you have a choice of where you go out (rather than tagging along with a group of carnivores), you prefer to go to a restaurant where you have a wide range of choices rather than a feeling of desperation as you scan the menu. Instead of going to 25 different restaurants to try their one vegetarian item, we'd rather have a handful of restaurants to visit where we aim to taste the variety of vegetarian options the menu.
Since I think there may be some people in the same boat that we're in, I thought I would post my reviews of various restaurants we've visited in case anyone else finds our research useful. For the sake of comparison, we'll go to two restaurants of similar genre and do a contrast between the two.
If, after reading these posts, you really want to tell me about some great ethnic (or straight-up vegetarian) restaurants you love in Nashville, please post a comment.
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