Too bad I can't publish my full review of this restaurant here. I have three times too many words than is allowed. This is another one of those ?first class? establishments in Nashville that no longer deserves its reputation, if it ever did. As you can tell from the other reviewers here, they are more impressed with the d?cor, the service, the booze and/or the location, than any honest, educated, worldly critique of the fare served. I suspect that most of those reviewing here are younger than thirty and were brought up on McDonald?s and Pizza Hut. Or they are older, devoted patrons from the ?hood, and have had their palettes numbed year after year to the inexorable crashing of the Sperry standards like the proverbial frog in boiling water. I have lived in Nashville for a number of years and whenever I heard of this restaurant, it was always in tones of hushed, almost whispered worship, like a prayer or wishing upon a star.
My Italian friend, born and raised in Italy, and I ended up at this restaurant on Christmas. We had had a perfectly glorious mini repast at 1 808?s earlier (check out the reviews of this place. Genuinely superb!) earlier in the day but decided to see if all we?d heard about Sperry?s was true.
[The space where I had to edit out all the details about the food we ordered.]
We had no liquor and no dessert. I had a hot tea and my companion had only water. Our bill was almost $60. This is too shameful to endure. Somebody needs to fix Sperry's before it deserves its reputation again, if it ever did.
Cons: The Food
more