Saturday, June 01, 2013

Amerigo's, Nashville


Saturday 25 May


No, this is not Amerigo's.  It's the Hermitage, Andrew Jackson's home, where we (including Harold and Laura) spent the first part of the day.  It was beautiful weather to take a carriage ride around the grounds, explore the gardens and house (Jackson's dining room was painted bright blue, where Washington's at Mount Vernon was bright green), and finally drive off to a late lunch at the real Amerigo's, right near Vanderbilt U.
It's a chain, but not a big one, and they evidently take good care of the food, which was quick and freshly made even though we were eating at 3 PM. 
We split an order of P.E.I. mussels with tomato, capers and lemon, which gave an extra oomph to the delicious garlic wine broth.  There were also grilled triangles of bread to dip.
Our other main was pasta: gemelli toppped with local goat cheese, with herbs and shavings of sun-dried tomato.  It was excellent, and both dishes went well with our wine choices (a Victor Hugo viognier from Paso Robles, and The Seeker Sauvignon Blanc from Marlborough N.Z.).
And as predicted, Holt's calzones were reheated and made a fine supper to go with the chick-flick we watched that evening.

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