East Nashville’s Best Restaurants and Bars | Eater Nashville

"It’s easy to see why Mailea Weger’s Lou is one of the city’s best places for weekend brunch: The warm, homey environs invite lingering conversation over skin-contact wines, sour ales, and thoughtfully concocted plates like saucisse and chervil pesto tartine, chocolate maple buckwheat pancakes, and fried eggs with brown butter whipped beans. That sense of easy engagement carries over into the dinner menu — especially during its Sunday roast chicken dinner which includes a half or whole buttermilk and preserve-lemon brined bird with wheat sourdough from Dozen bakery." - Jackie Gutierrez-Jones