Sixty Vines offers wine lovers lots of choices with great food

Housed on the third stage of fifth and Broadway, Sixty Vines is a restaurant catering to wine lovers. Their staff has assembled a powerful array of vintages (60 of them!) from world wide to savor with the meals of wine nation—France, Spain, Italy, California, Pacific Coast—wherever wine nation could also be. Additional, the wines are on faucet, a sustainable measure that reduces waste (no bottles, labels, corks, or bottles getting “corked.”) 

This offers friends compelling choices:

Would you want a 2.5-ounce pour of Henriot Brut champagne to get up your palate? Maybe a 5-ounce pour of a dry Riesling from the Finger Lakes to accompany your plate of panned mussels?  Or a quartino of “Summer season Water,” a Grenache-Syrah blended rosé from Central California to get pleasure from with a charcuterie and cheese board? Or a carafe of Barbera d’Asti for the desk whilst you and your friends bask in pastas and wood-fired pizzas?  As diners, we’ve turn into accustomed to ordering quite a lot of plates to share. Sixty Vines ups that sport. Having the ability to customized order wine in numerous sized pours to pair with these plates makes a meal extra fascinating and enjoyable.

The restaurant is designed to have a country stylish communal wine nation really feel. Its spacious interiors connect with alfresco eating patios. The views of the Ryman, the ever-changing skyline, and the Broadway hall resulting in the riverfront are putting.  

I lately dined with a bunch of six, which gave everybody the prospect to strive various dishes.

Brussels sprouts have turn into ubiquitous on as we speak’s menus, and right here they take an Asian flip, sizzled and wearing Kung Pao French dressing, scallions, and crushed cashews. Even higher is the Crispy Zucchini, which our group determined was the shock sleeper of the night. Half-moon slices of the summer season squash are dusted in seasoned tapioca flour (making it gluten-free) and deep-fried to a fragile crunch. Even after being topped with peppadews, shishitos and candy chili French dressing, the slices retain their crispness. Zucchini will be bland however not so right here. The mixture imparts advanced and balanced tastes—candy, bitter, spicy and savory.

A number of salads grace the menu. The Beet and Herbed Goat Cheese, micro basil, white balsamic was predictable and scrumptious.

Wooden-fired ovens and grills play a key function in Sixty Vines’ open kitchen. Pizzas emerge from the blazing oven with a blistered crust that’s crisp but chewy.  The wood-fired grill offers steaks, chops and fish smoky aromatics and a pleasant char. From the number of pizza, we opted for the Spicy Sausage—an ideal selection. The sausage is made in home and complemented by pickled Fresno peppers, fennel, basil, mozzarella and provolone atop red-sauced crust.  

From the grill: The bone-in Pork Chop will get a lift of sage brown butter and peppadew romesco sauce to reinforce the meat. The prize, nevertheless, is the Bavette. This sirloin reduce, akin to flank steak, is nicely marbled and richly flavored. Grilled to succulence, the meat is dabbed in foie gras-zinfandel demi and paired with mushroom-shallot confit and crispy fingerlings.

We sampled a few pasta dishes. Brief Rib Papparadelle, a lush preparation of thick ribbon pasta laced with pink wine braised beef, carrots, and onions, is one to savor in cool climate months. The Campanelle was the one dish that disenchanted us; the crabmeat was undetectable within the meld of tomatoes, chives and pecorino.

Desserts don’t disappoint. The Basque Cheesecake, distinctive for its “burnt” (caramelized) high encasing whipped cream cheese, and crustless backside, is completed in a tangy sauce of luxardo cherries. In the event you want a caffeine enhance on the finish of your feast, get the Deviled Affogato.  It’s a mug crammed with satan’s meals cake, salted caramel ice cream, espresso caramel, and a shot of Frothy Monkey’s nitro chilly brew.

Service is knowledgeable because the employees is comfortable to information you in wine and meals choices. The ambiance is relaxed but upbeat. Above the fray, Sixty Vines provides a distinct expertise of decrease Broad.

Sixty Vines

5055 Broadway Place, Ste 3200, Nashville 37203 

615-610-9330 sixtyvines.com/location/nashville-tn/

Hours: 11 a.m.-10 p.m. Monday-Thursday, 11 a.m.-11 p.m. Friday, 10 a.m.-11 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m.-10 p.m. Sunday

Reservations: Accepted

Alcohol: Full bar/wine ahead

Meals: Wine nation delicacies (California, Italian, French Spanish)