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Loveless Cafe, Nashville, TN

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Loveless Cafe

Loveless Cafe is a place to eat or drink in Nashville, TN, part of the Middle Tennessee guide. Cost: under $25.

8400 Highway 100 · Nashville, TN

Why you should go…

Lon and Annie Loveless opened this cafe on Highway 100 in 1951, and it still cooks from their original recipes. You come for the scratch biscuits with fruit preserves, country ham, red-eye gravy, fried chicken and hickory smoked barbecue. It sits just before the Natchez Trace Parkway bridge, and the Hams & Jams Country Market, set in old motel rooms, sells biscuit mix and preserves. The Loveless Barn on the grounds hosts events and concerts.

  • #southern food
  • #biscuits
  • #breakfast
  • #country ham
  • #natchez trace

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