Benjamin R.
Yelp
Well it's a sad day to be writing this. Fido used to be one of my favorite restaurants in nashville. For context I'm a nashville native and have lived here for 26 years. I was a regular at Fido for years. I honestly think they had one of the best burgers in nashville too. The fries were to die for with an aioli that you could drink. The breakfast was worth waking up early to beat the crowd for. The coffee was great too! They always had the best music playing throughout the restaurant. It was a unique spot with something delicious for any meal of the day...so good that you could look past the strange interior.
Fast forward past many menu changes, management changes, many food-to-table systems (for real too many to count), and finally to just a flat out minimal effort on the menu as a whole.
This morning I got one of the few items left on the menu that I loved from the beginning: Pete's breakfast. The menu describes, "two scrambled eggs with tomatillo salsa, Monterey Jack & cheddar cheese, [choice of protein], served with hash browns, red salsa, sour cream, and flour tortillas.
FYI, I did order this meal without cheese or sour cream, but cheese did not make this dish what it used to be. What I received: a pale failed omelet, half of which filled with strange varying chunks of veggie sausage, covered in an abundance of oil, not seasoned whatsoever. I got a "side" of no where near crispy potatoes, which was less than half the size of the potato portion that another member of my group received...and the potatoes were covered in what seemed to be Parmesan cheese (reminder I ordered my meal with no cheese). The tomatillo salsa in the "scrambled" eggs was tasteless, the red salsa was more hydrating than my glass of water. So what I was left with was a tortilla filled with unseasoned, oily "scrambled" eggs, strange tasteless chunks of sausage, and watery salsa. The whole thing tasted like watery oil.
Don't misread this, this was not just a bad day for Fido. I've spent the last two years giving Fido "one more chance," because I truly loved this restaurant. But now it's just a barebones, bland menu inside a music-less building with chairs that sound like a fog horn when you move them, and they have even reached a point where they have more variety in merch than their "fresh" pastries.
Also last issue...there was definitely a man taking a sink shower in the bathroom...
Fido, I know the restaurant industry is tough, especially in nashville. But you were what made Hillsboro village not just a tourist trap. Now you're just a backup plan if the line is too long at pancake pantry.