Belle Meade Meat And Three - Nashville

This is a small local gem that has been around for years. I will say that in the last 3 years the food has been such a treat for my family and I. The service however is another story. The cashier is loud and obnoxious and talks about her co-workers with customers and talks about customers with other customers. This is entirely unprofessional. Hats off to the cook, those wonderful veggies are delicious every time. We are vegan so I haven't had the fried chicken, but I've heard wonders about the smoked meatloaf. Give the cook a raise and the head cahier the boot. Wednesday and Fridays are the best days for my family and I to enjoy lunch here.

Yum!! I love a meat three. Food was very tasty with great portions, and the ladies behind the counter who served us were so friendly. Would definitely come back.

What a nice surprise. It's been here for years, but being a local, I did not know about it. It's a true meat and three. The ribs and fried chicken were amazing. Mash pots and collard greens, too! My wife foune the meatloaf too salty so they allowed her to exchange the meat. They ambiance was nice too. The service was friendly and attentive. I will be back often. Looks like a great place to have small group's too.

Ah, the Nashville meat-and-three tradition. Comfort, at least a touch of Southern-ness (no, not the whiskey! , and ability to fill the tummy of even the pickiest eater. Time was, it seemed practically every street corner in Metro had one, or at least a restaurant that offered say, fried chicken, okra, green beans, and such on the side from its regular menu at lunchtime. This reviewer remembers even a pizza place (near the famed Exit/In nightclub and closed for many years that did it at one time a quarter century ago.But as high-rises and corresponding high rents bring in a more sophisticated, hurried approach to dining (and an unrelated displacement as Nashville 's signature food by hot chicken , the old-timey meat-and-twos/threes/four veggies may wind up on the Federal Endangered Species list before long, because the most celebrated of them in recent times, Arnold 's, bit the dust not too long back. Not if Belle Meade Mansion and Winery can help it, though.As a tourist attraction in its own right, the Mansion is a fine tourist stop for devotees of Southern culture and antebellum artifacts. But one does not need a ticket to there to dig in to fine Southern eats. On a Summer Sunday afternoon, it was surprisingly un-crowded, with a predictable mix of tourists and after-church types (a Dad in a shirt and tie and a Mom in a long dress, a dead giveaway right there--does anyone else don clothes like those except for high-end office pros and workers these days? . Now, the food? I cannot help but go for fried chicken at these establishments, no matter how fine a reputation, say, its meatloaf might have. I figure that, much like pork shoulder is for barbecue, birds are for Southern home-cooking places, a standard by which they should be tested. Get them wrong, and there really is no point to anything else. I need not have worried one iota. A great golden crust worthy of my late grandmother encapsulated a tender thigh (I am a dark meat fan . And on the side, I had doses of my beloved fried okra and collard greens. All were solid and brought back fine memories of Sunday dinner from childhood. Nostalgia is not always bad, especially when it comes to food. Sometimes, when you come back to the basics, you can pull yourself together in a hyperactive world. At least I think I did that Sunday afternoon.The only potential controversy might be the cornbread wars. I grew up on the dry, bland, crumbly, buttermilk kind typical of the Tennessee Valley, and for a long time, I thought, like other Southern food nuts, that no other kind was acceptable. But my mind was changed years ago when I had Nashville 's light cornbread--with flour added into the meal to make it less gritty and softer--and my horizons were broadened! Belle Meade serves a Johnny cake version of this that is fried with a touch of oil. Eaten quickly (before it goes cold and used to sop up sauces on a plate or the collard greens ' pot likker, it caps off a fine plate of food.Now, this is not a cheap buffet, as you might imagine. Service is cafeteria-style, and as one might surmise from being located in the silk-stocking section of a metropolitan area of some 2 million souls, you will pay a good bit extra for the fine quality. So this will likely be an occasional treat rather than a regular haunt. And do beware that your GPS will not prepare you for exiting and re-entering Harding Road via a street without a traffic light, which may be an issue on a regular weekday. Still, if you have got to have your Southern vittles, Belle Meade Meat and Three will set you up very well.

We stopped during our Wine tour to grab some food. There were so many options to choose from, all at very reasonable prices. The food was delicious, and the ladies working were fantastic!