Edible Nashville

Restaurant Review: The Optimist, A Perfect 10

• Photo by Jill Melton

  Grilled Octopus with white beans and pomegranate molasses. Stunning.

• Fronting Adams Street, The Optomist occupies an old warehouse in a newly renovated section of Germantown.

• Drinks are spot on.

• Oysters 3-ways to start.

• Honey, butter and Maldon sea salt adorn home made rolls to start.

• Expert service

• Locally sourced tomatoes with whipped buttermilk and Parmesan

• Fried Oysters with Parsley Aoili

• Grilled octopus

• The bar at The Optomist, Nashville

• Pompano in a bath of delicious tomato sauce. Get a spoon.

• Hlaibut enpapillote with preserved lemon

• Coconut Chess Pie

• Oysters hailed from the Alabama coast, Massachusetts and Cape Cod.