D’Andrews Bakery and café is located in the downtown business district of Nashville, Tennessee. Owner, David Andrews opened the café in 2018 with the goal of serving not only amazing pastries but great sandwiches and freshly baked bread.
David got his start after college when he went to work for his family’s business. It was a 30,000 square food specialty store. This gave him first-hand experience for running and owning a small business. David went to the Institute of Culinary Education in New York City where he interned at a Manhattan three-star restaurant. Once he graduated from the institute, they offered him a job as their pastry cook. He worked there for three years learning every shift and honed his skills as a pastry chef.
After working for a couple of other places for several years, David yearned to open a place of his own and after looking at several places, he decided to open D’Andrews Bakery and Café. He has really taken the downtown area by storm and has earned 236 reviews on the internet with 4.7 stars.
Located in the Bellevue area of Nashville, Tennessee is The Loveless Café. The café started in the humble home of Lon and Annie Loveless in 1951. They originally started serving homemade Southern food and got so popular they remodeled their home into a restaurant. They also added a motel with 14 rooms to welcome guests who wished to say overnight.
Annie worked hard at The Loveless Café making biscuits from scratch as well as their preserves. Lon managed the small hotel. Today they get over half a million visitors a year who are craving true down home Southern cooked meals.
They eventually turned the motel rooms into small quaint shops that feature local gifts for the visitors. They added two event spaces where people can have meetings, weddings and more. They have over eighty-five web postings that give them a four-point-six-star rating.
Big Bad Breakfast is located at 5304 Charlotte Avenue in Nashville, Tennessee. Owner, Chef John Currence grew up in a household that felt breakfast was the most important meal of the day. He never went to school on an empty stomach and loved gout out to Sunday brunch after church with his dad.
John was a native to New Orleans where food is known to be amazing. No matter if it was after church or hunting and fishing trips to football food was on everybody’s mind and who was making what. He found his passion for cooking after he graduated from high school. He went to work on a tugboat that worked the oilfields in the Gulf of Mexico. He went on to work for many other places before he settled on opening his own place Big Bad Breakfast.
At the time he opened his restaurant, there were no chefs that specialized in breakfast. John’s gamble has paid off. All of his food is made from scratch and that is why he garners a 4.3-star rating on the world wide web with over 600 evaluations.