Restaurant
Monell's
Southern comfort food served family-style at communal tables inside a restored Victorian mansion.
Location
About this audio guide
This guide to Monell's in Nashville's Germantown neighborhood follows Michael King, who bought a run-down Victorian mansion on a whim in nineteen ninety-five, financed on five credit cards and no savings. It traces what he found inside the house, and what he learned from its previous owner about the woman who lived there before him, a locally famous cook whose table drew far more children than her own. You will hear how one lingering scent led him to shape a restaurant around her memory.
This audio guide was created using AI.