Just Share Already!

You know when your mom gave you that look, "are you going to eat everything on that plate?"  Well, no, you weren't.  Enter the over-portioned 80's-date.  Even posh Nashville restaurants have a hard time resisting piling on another potato or two.  Well, we are all watching our pocketbooks these days so why not share?  Yes, it's not something that comes naturally to this only child.  The truth is, it's almost too easy these days - not to mention cheaper (and your food generally comes out more quickly - time is money!)

Yancy and I are suckers for Park Cafe (we know gas went down but it's just too darn close).  Their portions are so large that splitting the NY strip special (that I would have mistaken for beef tenderloin the way it was sliced), the special bleu cheese, pecan raspberry dressing salad and noshing on a few pieces of bread was MORE than enough.  We also had their pistachio cheese cake and the total bill was $40 (with tip!)   The steak was served with deliciously sauteed green beans and a bacon ravioli.  The ravioli wasn't great so sub in the mac-n-cheese because we all know we love that and the huge bowl usually means you'll have a to-go box.  Also, remember foodies, have your waiter wrap up your bread - they have to trash it after it's on the table.  Even if all you do is feed it to the birds it's better than the trash can.

Remember, KEEP EATING OUT NASHVILLE, just share already!

Best places to share:

Park Cafe

Maggiano's

Amerigo's - clearly we overdo Italian cooking in the US

J. Alexander's 

Hibachi restaurants

Worst places to share:

Any Sushi restaurant - back off my fatty tuna!

Radius 10 - they do a great job on dishing just the right portion