Trendy Love Involves the Fairlane Resort | Bites

Through the years, the Fairlane Resort foyer has been house to residencies by a few of Nashville’s most proficient entrepreneurs: Max and Kayla Palmer from Bagelshop (now in Donelson), Kate Cunningham at By the Bottle and Gage Speas of Three Horses Hat Co.

Now Ben Clemons and Jamie White — the entrepreneurs behind Pearl Diver and Tiger Bar — have launched their first downtown enterprise contained in the Fairlane. Trendy Love is an all-day cafe and night bar and nighttime dance spot with all of the flawless decor and punctiliously thought-out menus for which Clemons and White have turn out to be identified. 

Trendy Love has two “personalities,” in accordance with the group: Early Hen and Night time Owl. Early Hen is the espresso store and lunch spot for lodge friends and locals who want a caffeine enhance earlier than a gathering within the close by Arcade or courthouse. The setup is within the reconfigured lodge foyer, which — because of its large home windows — stays one of many metropolis’s finest people-watching corners.

When the clock hits 3 p.m., Early Hen turns to Night time Owl. From 3 to five p.m., Night time Owl presents a contented hour with traditional cocktails, frozen drinks, wines and beer. At 5 p.m., there’s a global-inspired menu with fritto misto, ribs and salads, after which late-night bites, with a pared-down menu from 9 p.m. to midnight. Late-night snacks embrace scorching hen sandwiches and flatbreads, BLTs and burgers. In a nod to the Fairlane location, the cocktail menu consists of drinks born in lodges, comparable to Vieux Carré and the Rob Roy. Different choices embrace laborious cider, seasonal drinks and tinctures that may be added to different drinks.

The backdrop of all of this can be a Nineteen Sixties aesthetic that works within the Nineteen Seventies Fairlane (a lodge reconfigured from an outdated financial institution constructing, with terrazzo flooring and wooden paneling). On the Fourth Avenue North facet is “the dice,” a room with funky main colour lighting, a pool desk, and a lounge space with a TV and a sofa. The Union Avenue facet options the primary entrance to the lodge foyer and the restaurant seating for Trendy Love, plus 4 gorgeous lighting fixtures spelling out L-O-V-E. The dance ground and DJ sales space take up a bit of the foyer, however there’s nonetheless loads of room for lounging and taking pictures of your self surrounded by swanky, low-slung MCM furnishings for those who want a break from slicing a rug.

The result’s a spot that appears prime for locals and lodge friends alike, whether or not people are in search of an evening in town or a spot to get a nightcap earlier than retiring to their room. Or to paraphrase the lyrics of the late David Bowie’s “Trendy Love,” it is for when you recognize when to exit, know when to remain in.