If you haven't been to Second Harvest on Fridays for lunch, you are missing out.
Chef Mark Rubin (formerly of Belle Meade Brasserie before he sold that and went to work where his other passion was, at Second Harvest) leads a team of volunteers and folks learning the culinary trade from assistance programs and puts together interesting, fresh, healthy, and delicous meals that for a $12 donation you can enjoy each week. They also do an express lunch on Wednesdays and during warmer months on the second Tuesday of the month they host Food Truck Tuesdays - so there is a lot more going on at Second Harvest besides the amazing work of helping Nashville's families in need with food assistance.
I'm yelping my admiration for their work because I still think a lot of folks don't know about their public programs like this besides having visited for years. Visit their website, go by some Friday, you'll see and you'll be impressed.
Ask to be added to the email list, and you'll get a message each week telling you what the menus will be for Wednesday and Friday - to know which food trucks are there during FTT months, you need to visit their facebook or just go to the website.
You can go to other restaurants and get fancier dishes, a quieter dining room, servers without hair nets, and lots of other nice accompaniments - but visiting the Culinary Arts Center here will still be a highlight for you, I promise. read more