Loveless Café

Though it may look small and quaint from the outside, the Loveless Café is booming with a rich history and delectable dishes that draws in the masses.

The Loveless has proven to live up to its iconic status and teems with popularity. The restaurant claims the title as one of Nashville’s must-go-to eateries, famous for both its biscuits and hospitality. 

Originally known as the Harpeth Valley Tea Room, the restaurant started with humble beginnings, selling fried chicken from the front yard of the property. Soon, Lon and Annie Loveless, then owners of the café, converted the house into a restaurant, turning rooms into a dining room and kitchen.

Increased business later called for expansion. Today, the restaurant seats a larger crowd inside its country-styled interior with checkered table clothes, wooden chairs and old-fashioned art on the walls. 

Famous faces have been spotted at the restaurant, whether to drop by for a breakfast of steaming scrambled eggs, hash brown casserole, your choice of bacon or sausage and the biscuits ($8.95). (Don’t ask what’s in the biscuits: It’s a secret!) Or for a supper platter, opting for the fried chicken ($10.45 for a quarter chicken, $13.45 for a half), pork barbecue ($10.95) or meatloaf ($9.95). 

To help carry on the family atmosphere, the menu offers a family-style breakfast or supper for parties of four or more. For those with a sweet tooth, try desserts such as homemade cobbler ($3.50), homemade pie ($2.95 for a slice) or made-from-scratch banana pudding ($3.50). 

The Loveless Café caters and provides group menus. Click here for details.

And if the menu hasn’t sold you on the restaurant, the mystique of the often-talked-about biscuits will. Carol Fay Ellison, affectionately known around those parts as the “Biscuit Lady,” has become quite popular, appearing on CBS This Morning, Late Night with Conan O’Brien, Martha Stewart and Ellen television shows. 

Her country ham wasrated "the best in America" by People magazine, while Bon Apetit magazine raved about the Loveless Café: "On a scale of 1 to 10, my breakfast came in at about a 14."

 

breakfast and supper menu

- by Leah M. Caudle , Nashville Reporter for HelloMetro  (Click to leave a message)

Leah M. Caudle

Leah Caudle is a professional storyteller with experience in covering local, community and feature stories. While at newspapers such as The Tennessean in Nashville and The Lexington Herald-Leader in Lexington, Ky., Caudle also has experience in shooting and editing videos and photos to accompany stories. The Western Kentucky University graduate received degrees in print journalism and Spanish in 2007 and also has expertise in the areas of public relations, copy editing and proofreading.