One of many nice issues about dwelling in Nashville is that it’s not exhausting to persuade out-of-town company to return go to, and that features some excellent cooks who make the journey all the way down to share their skills with town. March gives a few coveted alternatives to expertise the delicacies of famend cooks with out shelling out for airfare to New York Metropolis or Spain!
First up is a March 13 dinner courtesy of tv chef Christian Petroni, who you would possibly keep in mind from appearances on Chopped and Meals Community Star. It’s a little bit little bit of a stretch to name Petroni a visitor chef, since he’ll be cooking at Ella’s by Christian Petroni, the restaurant within the Hyatt Centric in SoBro the place the chef revamped the unique Ella’s in 2024. He does drop in pretty continuously, however Nashville just isn’t his dwelling base.
So it is going to be a particular occasion when he takes over the kitchen for a family-style wine dinner beginning at 6:30 p.m. Friends will sit at communal tables of eight to 10 individuals the place they’ll hopefully make new mates over a multicourse meal, from a recent mozz appetizer to spicy calamari ragu and lamb chop scottadito as most important dishes served with a salad and a facet of escarole and cannellini beans ending with a dessert of ricotta zeppoles.
After a welcome cocktail at 6:30, company will sit down at 7:15 p.m. for the feast, and the dinner is a steal at $115 per individual together with wine pairings. Seize your seat on the (communal) desk at the occasion’s reservations web page.
Chef Juanlu Fernández
The second expertise developing on the finish of March is a bit more luxe and options chef Juanlu Fernández, a two-star Michelin chef from Jerez, Spain. The Nashville Grange restaurant on the Grand Hyatt downtown will play host to chef Fernández for 3 nights from March 27 to 29 as they current Dos Estrellas: A Michelin Expertise with Juanlu Fernández. Every night time at 7:30 p.m., Fernández will function dishes from his acclaimed Jerez restaurant LU Cocina y Alma alongside regional Spanish wine pairings.
To create an much more genuine illustration of eating at LU, chef Fernández is touring together with his service employees and sommelier workforce. (So I suppose this may not be the best possible time to attempt to rating a reservation for his spot in Jerez. Oh effectively, their loss is our achieve!)
I’ve seen a preview of the menu, and it appears like three evenings of luxurious of the type that’s hardly ever seen round these components. We’re speaking appetizers like oysters with osetra caviar and mussels with jalapeño foam and agrodolce pickle, and most important programs of lobster in fermented salpicon with sun-dried cherry tomatoes and Iberian pork royale with black truffle on a bao bun. Even the bread service will likely be served with LU’s signature cellar-aged butter. You too can count on the wine and sherry pairings to disclose bottles which can be hardly ever, if ever, seen within the U.S., a lot much less in Nashville.
Within the official announcement of the dinner, chef Fernández sounds fired-up about his impending go to to Music Metropolis. “We’re excited to convey a singular expertise to Nashville — the LU expertise and a chunk of our homeland, Jerez! The dinner will function iconic dishes from our restaurant, harmonized with unique wines from our territory in Spain. We’re very blissful to convey this MICHELIN-Star expertise to Music Metropolis, and are grateful to the Grand Hyatt Nashville workforce for internet hosting us at The Nashville Grange.”
Now this type of luxurious expertise doesn’t come low cost, and the very restricted variety of tickets at the occasion web site are going for $449 per diner. However when you think about {that a} flight from BNA to Jerez de la Frontera runs about 20 hours and $1,800, after which dinner and wine pairings at LU can set you again as much as 800 Euros, it’s actually a splurge price taking!
