Dalts American Grill

Laura Faber dines at a #Nashville favorite. #restaurant

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It’s been a staple of West Nashville since 1980 in our first story Laura Faber shares the secret to the success of dots American Grill while also sharing a personal connection to the restaurant it’s home cooking on a grand skate meals that make you think of your grandma and new dishes too pot roast

Meatloaf chicken pot pie the burgers and milkshakes those onion rings and fried mushrooms people like our fried mushrooms we hand batter them oursel our onion rings is a top seller because the batter is quite unique U can’t get it everywhere this is dots American Grill it’s a local favorite it’s a

Westside tradition the BME community and the West Nashville Community has kept this place going for 43 years they keep coming and we keep trying to serve him good food with good service three traser Rs please owner Shannon Powell got his start working in restaurants while at

College he had heard of dots when it was a chain owned by TGI Fridays in 1980 and when the company started selling off the dots restaurants Shannon bought the White Bridge Road location in 2001 and he and his family have owned it ever since there was four of them left in the

90s and this was one of them and now it’s the only one standing the area where dot sits has transformed since 1980 long time nashvillians will remember that this part of town used to be called lion’s head in fact back in 1992 my very first date with my soon

Tobe husband was at ads there are a lot of stories like that and when they built this restaurant this was the outside of Nashville I mean there was hardly anything out here and then as it developed into lion’s head you know Calhoun was here there was uh Caesars

Was a a famous restaurant that was in the back and they had the movie theater I get a lot of stories about people that would have their first date at the movie theater and then come adults I get adults now that say my grandma brought

Me here and we would sit at the counter and have a milkshake the secret is also the food good food and most everything homemade We do everything we can homemade from scratch as much as we can the only things I can’t do fat-free dressing I buy that but we do all our dressings all our desserts all our suits and that’s what I stand by you don’t get that a lot anymore regular customers clearly have

Their favorites like Melissa wac who used to be a waitress here I ordered the uh they call it now the summer melt but it used to be called chicken salad quesadilla the summer melt that’s a chicken salad which is different than anybody else’s chicken salad secret ingredient there’s Dill nobody not a lot

Of people put Dill in their chicken salad but the summer melts one of our top sellers Linda Wakefield and her group are regulars too dots is great at accommodating larger groups you can feed 8 to 80 there’s a party room that they use quite often the food is pretty much

Stays the same they have changed the menu several times but when we don’t like it we tell them they have great carrot cake consistent food there’s several consistent employees going to table 20 I eat here 7 days a week CU I’m here all the time but French dip is one

Of my favorites the Philly cheese steak those two are kind of hand in hand I rotate between those two we have a really good Reuben which is unique to West Nashville they they like their Reuben so we’ve always Reuben sells well it’s it’s original it’s like the the

Light R it’s got the sauerkraut and swiss cheese so it’s a stands true to what a Reuben should be and then there are the desserts the chocolate malt cake is adults original chocolate through and through homemade covered with jumbo malt balls it was a customer favorite back in

1980 and remains a top favorite today Chocolate malt cake and it is an original item that was on the menu from the very beginning and it’s quite a hard recipe to follow and we’ve did them for 43 years and they um continue to sell because it’s a rich it’s got The Malt powder in it so it’s a rich chocolate

Cake the menu has been updated a bit since 1980 and some parts of the restaurant have been too like the sun room with a beloved mural by Kentucky artist David Jones He also painted the one inside the one in the sun room is more about West Nashville on one side

And then downtown Nashville on the other side the one in the dining room is all about old downtown Nashville and stars we’ve got mini pearl on the far left of that mural we’ve got Hank Williams Senior I always get to say his name because everybody goes Where’s the

Restroom I go go to Hank Williams Senior and take a right what hasn’t changed is the main dining room at dos built after a 40s Diner that was the concept so it’s got unique things like the marble floor was flown from Italy to come in and build this the

Countertops at the bar and the counter are both flown in from Italy they’re original marble mahogany wood you don’t get that everywhere they really did a good job building this in 1980 turns out the secret recipe to ad Success is Not so secret after all it’s been good

People taking care of people each and every day and uh that’s that’s our only secret hey how’d you like the story we’d love to hear from you in the comments if you enjoyed it we have a lot more where that came from here’s one you might like

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