Audrey
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Audrey

Nashville, Tennessee

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Sean Brock's love letter to Southern Appalachian cooking, served in a converted house with a garden out back that supplies half the menu. This isn't nostalgia food — it's painstaking research into heirloom ingredients and forgotten techniques, plated with a precision that makes every course feel like a thesis defense. The tasting menu is the move.

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Reserve the chef's counter if available. The garden tour before dinner is offered quietly — ask for it.

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