This is about a month late, but I don’t think this year’s Restaurant Week was that impressive, so there wasn’t a fire under my butt to run out into the streets imploring people to visit the city’s restaurants for new and exciting foods to try. Why? Because of the 25 or so menus I reviewed prior to choosing which restaurants to visit, I noted that the majority of restaurants on the list were New American/Southern, and all of them had on the menu the following three items: steak, pork chops, and shrimp and grits. Really? So are they relying on people choosing a resto A because they cook pork chops in bacon fat as opposed to resto B that serves fried pork chop? Is that all the creativity this place has? And who honestly thinks paying $20 for shrimp and grits is a good deal? Would anyone ever pay $20 for a few pieces of shrimp on a bed of white rice from a Chinese place? It’s essentially the same. And so that’s how I ended up at Sunset. I had already had my pork chop for resto week. I wanted to eat something else, and Sunset had salmon or shepard’s pie. Somehow EVERYONE in the restaurant I saw ordered the salmon. It was good, though. Succulent, moist on the inside, crisp on the edges, with a nice puddle of juice at the bottom of the plate to bring it together with the broccoli and potato gratin. Worth the $20 I paid for dinner.
Sunset Grill Hillsboro Village Nashville, TN
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