Maria Ivey

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Butterlamp Offers Delightful Twists on Age-Old Staples

Sep 16, 2024 | thenashvillian.com | Maria Ivey

Owned by husband-and-wife pair Benjamin and Katie Rose Tyson and named for the many butter lamps the couple lit while honeymooning in Bhutan, Butterlamp is a new 42-seat wine and bread bar in the Eastwood Village development (also home to Switchyards and a great little bookstore, Novelette, among other retail). The of-the-now yet also ancient concept feels nicely anchored in the old Hobson United Methodist Church building.
Life's a Beach at Coral Club

Sep 16, 2024 | thenashvillian.com | Maria Ivey

The folks behind the bar and the scenes at Coral Club, a newish coastal escape-themed bar in East Nashville, may very well warrant a new twist on Nashville’s oft-heard “songwriter’s songwriter” or “musician’s musician” superlatives: the bartender’s bartender. Sharing a hospitality pedigree that is as wide as it is deep, owners and brothers Aaron and Matthew Izaguirre, alongside Brice Hoffman and Kristopher Esqueda have created a coastal-vibed getaway on Gallatin Avenue.
The Improbable Ascent of Gifford’s Bacon

Sep 13, 2024 | thenashvillian.com | Maria Ivey

The first time I heard, and I mean listened to, registered, and remembered the name Gifford’s Bacon was at the East Nashville Farmers Market on a sweltering day, the blacktop so hot the market had warned shoppers via Instagram to leave their dogs at home for fear of blistered paws. I was in a shortish line waiting to buy two dozen eggs while sweating and silently cursing the man ahead of me who was deep in conversation with the vendor.
A Cheap Charlie's Taco Shop Regular

Sep 13, 2024 | thenashvillian.com | Maria Ivey

Charlie Zelaya’s head is on a swivel. We are sitting on barstools at his East Nashville location of Cheap Charlies Taco Shop in 5 Points on a very windy first of May.
Running Shrimp with Gautier & Sons

Sep 13, 2024 | thenashvillian.com | Maria Ivey

In 2019, The New York Times ran a “Scratch” doodle by Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg about fishmongers at the Westwego Fish Market in a suburban parish just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. The colorful full-page sketch focused on how fishmongers diversify their offerings. It showed their work’s backbreaking and highly competitive nature as illustrated in out-of-the-lines watercolor-y snapshots of a day in the life.
Carbo-loading at Edessa in Little Kurdistan

Sep 13, 2024 | thenashvillian.com | Maria Ivey

I’m sitting across the table from Shirzad “Zee” Tayyar at Edessa Restaurant precisely eight years and two days after first meeting him. Edessa helms a small selection of stores, restaurants, and a mosque off Nolensville Road, known colloquially as Little Kurdistan. It’s an easy area to miss, given the chaotic nature of driving down Nolensville Road, but after one taste, impossible to forget. Tayyar and I hardly knew each other back then; the same could be said now.
Carbo-loading in Little Kurdistan

Nov 28, 2023 | thenashvillian.com | Maria Ivey

I’m sitting across the table from Shirzad “Zee” Tayyar at Edessa Restaurant precisely eight years and two days after first meeting him. Edessa helms a small selection of stores, restaurants, and a mosque off Nolensville Road, known colloquially as Little Kurdistan. It’s an easy area to miss, given the chaotic nature of driving down Nolensville Road, but after one taste, impossible to forget. Tayyar and I hardly knew each other back then; the same could be said now.
Running Shrimp with Gautier & Sons

Nov 16, 2023 | thenashvillian.com | Maria Ivey

In 2019 The New York Times ran a “Scratch” doodle by Julia Rothman and Shaina Feinberg about fishmongers at the Westwego Fish Market in a suburban parish just across the Mississippi River from New Orleans. The colorful full-page sketch focused on how fishmongers diversify their offerings. It showed their work’s backbreaking and highly competitive nature as illustrated in out-of-the-lines watercolor-y snapshots of a day in the life.