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Loveless Cafe, Nashville, TN

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Loveless Cafe

Eat scratch biscuits with preserves, country ham and fried chicken at a Southern roadside cafe serving since 1951.

8400 Highway 100 · Nashville, TN

About Loveless Cafe

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.

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