My interview with Chef Debra and Ernie Paquette from Restaurant Zola

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part two

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Nashville's local restaurants and specials for you to enjoy

This list will continue to grow with more information, so please keep coming back to visit and find the new additions. Thanks for coming by and having a look around. ~Corey

Chappy’s:

Sunday Brunch

4-course champagne brunch

soup, salad, entrée and dessert

$24.95

Grouper (every night)

Salad, grouper, side

$29.95

Visit Chappy's.com to learn more

Ellendales:

Sunday Family Night
family style dinners 4-7pm
$15 Adults/ Kids eat free (1 child per adult)
$15 bottles of wine

Happy Hour 4-6pm Mon-Fri (bar only)
$4 Margaritas
$2 Domestic Beer
$3 House Wine
&
Complimentary Appetizers:
Asiago Crusted Calamari
Global Cheese Course
Gypsy Sampler
Bruschetta

Visit their website to learn more.
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Zola:

Chef Deb is doing a four-course tasting menu at a reduced price.

This prix fixe menu will feature Pan con Tomate y Jamon, Paella Martini, Spanish Brisket and Seared Almond Cake with Smoked Vanilla Bean Ice Cream all for just $39.95.Also offering a Spanish wine pairing with this menu for just $15.00.

Same great quality you’ve come to expect from ZOLA over the last twelve years, just smaller portions and a wider variety!

Visit their website to learn more.

A European couple review Zola the restaurant

So we wanted to try fine cuisine in the US. Probably, having had the choice, for this experiment we wouldn’t have selected Nashville, a city famous for other offerings. But this is where work brought us to, and anyway we had heard nice things about Zola, where Chef Debra Paquette (co-owner with husband Ernie Paquette) produces dishes inspired by Mediterranean (notably Spanish/Moroccan) and French cuisine.

Let us come clean at the outset: the experiment was not successful. We don’t want to play the part of the snotty Europeans (though what else are we?) so we would prefer to attribute the failure to a seemingly impassable gulf between our concept of fine dining and the Nashvillian one.



As you might have guessed already the main problem for us was that the multitude of ingredients expressed only muted flavours at best. We prefer dishes with fewer ingredients, but with clear, well extracted flavour. We read in an interview with Chef Paquette (you see, we really do our research) that fun is an essential feauture of her cooking philosophy. And no doubt her cuisine looks joyful, if ungenerous in the meat portions. We wish good luck to Zola, which anyway does not need our wishes because it clearly meets the local taste.

Read the entire review and visit their site at Eat Drink Man Woman.

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A Tasteful Pursuit by Randy Rayburn

Wednesday, June 13 2007

SUNSET GRILL
2001 Belcourt AvenueNashville, Tennessee

6:00 PM Cocktail Reception7:00 PM Six-Course Seated Dinner
$175 per person $250 per person to be seated at the Ten Top Chefs Table, seating is limited(75% is tax-deductible)

Guests will have the opportunity to bid in silent and live auctions.
Auction and Ticket Co-ChairsLinda Herrell and Kendra May

FOR RESERVATIONS
Visit www.strength.org/atastefulpursuitOr call 615-386-3663

Can't attend, but would like to help?
Please consider making a contribution to help end childhood hunger.

HOST
Dustin Pritchett, Chef de Cuisine of Sunset Grill

GUEST CHEFS
Bradford Thompson, Executive Chef of Mary Elaine’s at the Phoenician Resort (Scottsdale, AZ)Brian Uhl, Executive Chef and Owner of Cabana (Nashville, TN)
Paul Ent, Chef and Partner of Midtown Café (Nashville, TN)
Debra Paquette, Chef and Owner of Zola (Nashville, TN)
Tyler Brown, Executive Chef of The Capitol Grille at The Hermitage Hotel (Nashville, TN)

Share Our Strength's A Tasteful Pursuit is a national culinary program featuring the nation's most renowned chefs touring the country to raise funds for the fight to end childhood hunger. We partner with the culinary elite in major cities to create sumptuous, multi-course dinners paired with exquisite wines.