Nashville Late-Night Institution Hermitage Cafe Is Apparently Closing - Eater Nashville
"The site of the historic Hermitage Cafe has been sold, and the late-night diner will be forced to close sometime in October. The diner, which served the Nashville community for decades, seems to be losing its space in the Rutledge Hill neighborhood just south of Broadway where it served all day (well, night) breakfast favorites, from soul-warming biscuits and sausage gravy and pancakes to patty melts and grilled cheese sandwiches to everyone from cops and firemen to drunk socialites and songwriters that everyone respected by leaving alone, in the proper (old) Nashville way. It’s also a tried and true spot to nurse the hangover the morning after, too. Shields Taylor first opened the diner, located a little on the outskirts of downtown at the corner of Hermitage Avenue and Middleton Street. When Taylor died he left it to his widow Pat Taylor. Pat’s daughter Sherri (Taylor) Callahan ensured that the cafe remained open after Pat’s death in 2014 — a legacy to her mother who ran the diner solo for years. In 2015, the diner got a little interior facelift courtesy of the Food Network, which was filming for the show American Diner Revival. It still feels exactly the same — open all night from 10 p.m. to 1:30 p.m. serving comforting breakfast essentials alongside patty melts, chopped steak, fried chicken, and fried bologna sandwiches." - Delia Jo Ramsey
