Sampler at The Nashville Chop House
If you want to rise to the gustatory heights, sometimes you’ ve got to climb. Accordingly, I made the journey up the hill on north Jefferson street to the Hotel Nashville, where, perched high above the Peaceful Valley, the new Nashville Chop House is drawing crowds with the finest quality locally sourced meats and house-made specialties.
It was a Saturday night, the parking lot was full, and so was the Chop House— one big dining room and a small bar. I got seated in the bar, but at a table, which was not so bad.
The bar, called the“ wardroom,” has a military theme. A wardroom is the officer’ s mess on board a warship and“ mess” is what the navy calls the dining room. The Nashville Chop House is veteran owned and operated and the cozy bar room is covered with military memorabilia. I overheard the bartender relate that he was a veteran of both the Army and the Navy. It has a nice little horseshoe bar that seats about a dozen people.
I like a good steak. I wish I could try everything on the menu, but alas, my days of hogging down huge portions of food are in the rearview. I wanted a nice juicy steak with a baked potato and a salad on the side.
But first, as I was seated in the bar, it seemed only fitting that I enjoy a cocktail apéritif, a digestive, as it were, and I had a hankering for an Old Fashioned, just like dear old Dad used to make.
I had in mind the shrimp cocktail for an appetizer, but I wanted to save digestive space for the main event. They also serve fresh bone-in wings, twice baked potatoes, and steak bites as appetizers.
Instead, I had a nice Chop House salad with fresh iceberg lettuce, diced tomato, cucumber, red onion, cheddar cheese and a home-made balsamic vinegar dressing. It was a nice big salad, and gave me something healthy to do while I awaited my steak.
There’ s also a chef’ s salad on the menu.
The Nashville Chop House serves a Fischer Farms“ Can-Can Pork Chop— a glorious Tomahawk cut of pork loin with the belly attached.” There’ s an“ Aviator Chicken,” bone-in chicken breast with the drumettes attached, and even a fish of the week.
But my sights were set on a steak.
44 Our Brown County March / April 2023