Day 249 - Sept. 22
Listening to: Another One Bites the Dust
Thought for the day: Food is our common ground, a universal experience. ~James Beard

CITY HOUSE

Remember when I said that I can always tell a restaurant is going to be good if there are cookbooks on a shelf? Let’s recap. So far I’ve spied cookbooks at The Yellow Porch, Eastland Café, AND NOW…………..City House! These are City House’s cookbooks. The cookbooks………. they do not lie.

City House was the destination of our Wednesday night dinner group………well, half of us. The half I ended up with? They are all full blooded Italians. City House is an Italian eatery. If you have never eaten real Italian food with real Italians, you really need to try it. FO REAL. Their appreciation for City House’s exceptional Italian food was so intense it seeped into the food itself. In other words, my Italian friends LOVED City House which intensified my appreciation.

The dishes sampled at my table included eggplant caponata, pizza with house-made belly ham, mozzarella, grana padano, oregano, and chilies, a pasta dish with conchiglie, crowder peas, potato, side meat, tomato, grana padano, and linguini with tomato, garlic, chilies, olives, parsley, and bottarga. You will not go wrong with ANY ...OF.... THESE!

To top off the meal we ordered two desserts and shared. Typically, the Wednesday group does not do dessert, but after hearing that City House’s pastry chef was recently featured in Bon Appetit…………well DUUUUH…………..we had to try it. Sharing the desserts was the icing on the Wednesday night dinner group cake experience!

On the Shelf:
The River Cottage Meat Book
Sweet Myrtle and Bitter Honey
Naples and Campana
Cornbread Nation
Pork and Sons
Cooking By Hand
And some book with a spoon on it

http://cityhousenashville.com/menu/