Category Archives: Sandwich

Burger Republic

by Sarah

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A new burger place, Burger Republic, has opened on Nolensville Road and I’m pretty sure the angels in Heaven sang.  To say that we love this place is a little bit of an understatement.  Nolensville Road has been sorely lacking in a really great place to sit down and eat a burger.  Burger Republic has filled that void.

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We began our meal with the tater tot fondue.  Burger Republic serves jumbo tater tots with a side of “loaded” cheese sauce that has sour cream, bacon (Benton’s maybe?), and chives.

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The tater tots have just the right amount of salt and crunch.  The cheese sauce adds quite a bit of flavor to the tots.  Personally, while the burgers are great, I think this was my favorite part of the meal.

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Burger Republic offers a wide variety of very creative burgers including the Taco Truck (made with taco seasoning, jalapenos, and guacamole), Chili Chili Bang Bang (with Sam Adams chili, chipotle aioli, and an onion ring) and the TN Burger (Benton’s Bacon, Jack Daniel’s Honey Glaze, and Memphis Spice Dusted Tobacco Onions) just to name a few.

We opted to keep it simple and try the Classic Burger with Vermont Aged Cheddar instead of American Cheese.  The burger was juicy and cooked to perfection, served on a toasted Brioche bun.  The burger includes one side and since we already had tater tots, I opted for the salad.  We’ve been several times and no matter which dressing I get, the flavors are a little strong.  Not bad, just potent.  The ranch is particularly heavy on the garlic and the balsamic vinaigrette has quite a bit of vinegar.

If beef isn’t your thing, Burger Republic also offers a variety of turkey, fish, and chicken sandwiches.  While we were there, my mom tried the Holiday Turkey Burger with Brie Cheese and Cranberry Compote.  She said it was the best turkey burger she has ever had the pleasure of eating.

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Burger Republic also offers a wide variety of alcoholic and non-alcoholic hand-spun milkshakes with 5 scoops of ice cream.  We opted to try the non-alcoholic salted caramel milk shake made with vanilla ice cream, a salted caramel sauce, topped with whipped cream and butterscotch chips.  It was rich, delicious, and large enough that Cary and I split one.

While we are not beer drinkers, I have been told the selection of beers on tap is great as well.

If you are on the South side of Nashville and are looking for a good burger, we suggest you give Burger Republic a try.

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Merridee’s Bread Basket

by Sarah

On a recent Saturday, we ventured to Merridee’s Breadbasket in Franklin, TN.  Merridee’s serves breakfast until 10:30 am and begins serving lunch at 11:00 am.  We arrived at 10:50am and they were still taking breakfast orders.  We were in the mood for lunch, so decided to try a few pastry appetizers while we waited.

Cary decided to try a pecan sticky bun.  The bun had an almost praline-like topping with a nice, light but also chewy dough.  It was absolutely delicious.

I opted for a raisin cinnamon roll with a light icing on top.  Like Cary’s sticky bun, the dough was light and chewy. Many times cinnamon rolls have an overwhelming amount of cinnamon.  This was not the case here.  I was pleasantly surprised by the light cinnamon flavor.  They had these packaged to take home.  I was very tempted.

The small side salad was a mixture of fresh greens, carrots and cheese with homemade croutons.  With the salad, you get a half piece of the famous Viking bread.  The Viking bread is a really unique whole grain bread.  Many times I feel like whole grain breads are gritty with hard grains that hurt my teeth.  The Viking bread contains soft grains that accent the soft bread well.

The chicken salad was a mix of chicken, mayonnaise and celery on white bread bread.  In my opinion, it was just a bit of a disappointment.  I’m southern a believe that chicken salad should contain pecans and some sort of fruit.  I’m sure people really like it, but it just wasn’t for me.

 

Merridee’s reuben came with a homemade thousand island dressing and was on the bakery’s delicious Viking bread.  While the corned beef of the inside had been sliced, it was nearly falling apart tender and luckily had a good bit of cheese to hold things together.  With the thick dressing to dip the sandwich in, as well as the substantial bread that was chock full of various seeds and grains, this turned out to be a top-notch reuben.

 

In our opinion,  Merridee’s Breadbasket is true to their name.  The thing they do the best are baked goods.  The breads and pastries were excellent.  We took home several of their dessert bars, a loaf of Viking Bread and a loaf of French Bread.  We used the French Bread to make French toast and made cinnamon toast with the Viking bread.

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Amish Market at the Mill

by Sarah

While we were wandering around in Nolensville, we decided to stop at the Nolensville Feed Mill.

The big sign that said “Bread, Pies and Cakes” just pulled us right in.

When we walked in the door, we were immediately impressed with the variety of foods that they carried.  They had Noble Springs Diary Goat Cheese, Hatcher Family Dairy Milk, Yoder Brothers Meats, farm fresh eggs, a variety of jams and jellies, fresh baked breads including sourdough, wheat, and rosemary garlic bread.  We were very excited about the eggs and the variety of meats.  Our CSA ends in November and we are hooked on farm fresh eggs and the meats from Yoder Farms.  It’s nice to know there will be a place we can continue to feed our addiction.

Cary had the “The Mill” sandwich filled with Troyer cheese and both turkey and corned beef. Disregard the large bite that was taken out of the sandwich.  Most of the time I can get a picture of the food before Cary tries it, but the sandwich was just too good.

You can also buy meat by the pound.  We were very excited to find out it is cheaper than either Publix or Kroger, about $5.99 (variable).

The chicken salad was full of tender chicken, pecans, celery, and dried cranberries.  They also offered a chicken salad with grapes in lieu of cranberries.  I tried both and opted for the cranberry version.  It was served on the homemade sourdough bread, which was incredibly soft, with lettuce and tomatoes.

We were delighted to find Sprecher Gourmet Sodas.  They had cream soda, root beer, lo-cal root beer, cherry cola, orange dream and ginger ale.

While we were there, Young Republic performed one last song that quickly turned into three because the audience begged.  They were great.  Look them up on Myspace or iTunes.

There was a variety of  Mrs. Armstrong’s Fried Pies.  This is the peach.  Don’t let the picture fool you.  It was delicious.  They also have cherry, apricot, chocolate, apple and coconut. We tried several varieties throughout the week. They had buttery, flakey crusts and just plain good fruit filling.

They have a variety of sweets.  While we were there, we tried the banana nut bread, which was fantastic.  We brought home miniature chocolate chess and chess pies.  If baked goods aren’t your thing, they also had Pied Piper ice cream.

Some friends of our suggested we bring the caramel puffcorn home.  They said it was addictive like crack…  and boy howdy, were they right (not that I know anything about crack).  It was sweet, light and crispy.

We really can’t say enough about The Mill.  It was open, airy, clean and organized.   Not only did they sell many great food products, we also had fun wandering through their collection of antiques for sale.  When we left Cary said that he had finally found a great sandwich place in Nashville.

Amish Market at the Mill
7280 Nolensville Rd
Nolensville, TN 37135

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