Cultures thrive off street food—casual, portable, cheap yet good, food of the people, found on any street corner. Buns in China, banh mi in Vietnam, and crepes in Paris, to name a few. Nashville’s street food culture seizes on that way of eating, bringing seriously good food to festivals, office buildings, and well, the streets. With food trucks that have become brick and mortar restaurants and restaurants that have added food trucks, it’s hard to tell which came first, the food truck or the bricks-and-mortar. We caught up a few of the trendsetters to glimpse how we eat now, and what we can look forward to…
BISCUIT LOVE
Where the biscuit is king
Now a brick-and-mortar with lines that rival the Pancake Pantry, Karl and Sarah Worley originally opened their Biscuit Love airstream (nicknamed “Lilly”) in 2012, to test-drive their dream of owning a restaurant. Needless to say, it worked. Their “Bonuts” (a creation borne out of their early days on the truck), have inspired many a restaurant to add biscuit donuts to their menus. Their bestselling “The East Nasty” was named Bon Appetit’s Best Sandwich in the US in 2015.
That same year, the airstream retired with the launch of a permanent location in the Gulch. “We knew from the beginning that we wanted to be a restaurant,” says Karl. “After the amazing welcome Nashville gave us in the Gulch, we began looking at expanding the concept to multiple locations.” Biscuit Love is currently in three locations (the Gulch, Hillsboro Village, and Franklin) with hopes of expanding beyond the Nashville area in 2019.
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