Along with all of the festivities for Dine Nashville taking place between now and the top of the month, there are a number of enjoyable occasions working independently of the Nashville Conference & Guests Corp occasions. Talking of impartial, let’s kick off this week’s Monday Menu with a recognition of 1 the nice unsung enterprise tales within the metropolis.
Ten years in the past, Wesley Keegan opened the headquarters of his TailGate Brewery in a former Moose Lodge at 7300 Charlotte Pike. The seven-acre campus is house to TailGate’s giant manufacturing brewery system in addition to a tasting room, a celebration barn, a pizza kitchen and all types of outside area. Keegan really received greater by getting smaller, abandoning a nationwide distribution mannequin of beer manufactured by a third-party brewery to focus on the Tennessee market and 9 taprooms between Nashville and Chattanooga.
Up to now decade, TailGate has expanded to greater than 250 workforce members with out taking over outdoors funding — really an impartial success story. The corporate is notable for providing one hundred pc paid worker well being care along with different wonderful advantages whereas sustaining a household ambiance within the office.
To rejoice 10 years of nice beers, Keegan and the TailGate crew are throwing a bash on the HQ on Saturday, Feb. 22, from 11 a.m. till 10 p.m. with particular beer releases, a “Pit to Pie” pizza collaboration with Edley’s BBQ, hourly brewery excursions, a classic market from midday till 6 p.m., and plenty of different enjoyable foods and drinks.
“Each time you drink a TailGate beer, you’re not solely getting the most effective our workforce has to supply, but additionally serving to our workforce convey their best every single day,” says Keegan within the occasion announcement. “I consider you present your appreciation by paying folks nice. The truth that we’ve been in a position to develop in Tennessee whereas preserving our promise to our workforce reveals that placing folks first simply works.”
4 Partitions’ Rivers of Rain
I’ve shared earlier than how a lot I’ve loved the collaborative bartender occasions that the workers at 4 Partitions has scheduled across the openings of latest displays on the Frist Artwork Museum — they usually’re at it once more! This Thursday and Friday, February 20 and 21, from 5 p.m. till midnight, 4 Partitions will welcome the mixology workforce from San Francisco’s True Laurel for collaborative cocktails and a celebration of the intersections of artwork and mixology.
The True Laurel squad is led by co-founder and beverage director Nicolas Torres, who has propelled the bar to a No. 30 rating within the North America’s 50 Finest Bars 2024 competitors. Each bar groups will create cocktails based mostly on the inspiration from the brand new Frist exhibition, Farm to Desk: Artwork, Meals, and Identification within the Age of Impressionism. 4 Partitions’ lead bartender Mickey Stevenson will function host for the evenings.
Nearer to house, 4 Partitions has deliberate one other particular collab with Germantown’s Inexperienced Hour for a Nationwide Absinthe Day extravaganza on Wednesday, March 5, from 5 p.m. till midnight. They’ll be whipping up specialty absinthe cocktails made with a alternative of Corsair Pink, St. George Verte and Two James Nain Rouge absinthes, paired with tempered goodies. It must be an entertaining night time celebrating “The Inexperienced Fairy.”
Bagelshop groups up with Tailor, Mimo creates a symphony of flavors, and cooks be a part of up for a Yucatecan feast
I had a good time attending the primary installment of Fonda’s Flavors of Mexico collection specializing in the delicacies of the Yucatan, and I nonetheless reminisce Fonda-ly of the turkey and lime soup that made me completely swap up my Thanksgiving menu. The second version of the culinary tour will happen at 2316 twelfth Ave. S. on Wednesday, March 5, and can characteristic a novel mixture of Mexican- and Asian-inspired meals.
Fonda chef Roberto Santibañez will welcome famend Mexico Metropolis-based chef Josefina Santacruz for the night, which is able to kick off at 6 p.m. with a cocktail reception that includes Tepozán Tequila, accompanied by handed appetizers, together with lobster spring rolls and tuna tostadas. Friends will then sit right down to a multicourse dinner highlighting Santacruz’s signature dishes, equivalent to Thai shrimp with avocado and cumin, duck bao buns, and Peking-style carnitas tacos.
Make a reservation for what may show to be a captivating exploration of flavors at the occasion web site.
