Monday, May 18, 2009

Bridges Cafe

Posted by Heather / 2 comments » / lunch, white bridge


Update 6/16/2009: this restaurant has been closed.

Bridges Cafe is a ladies-who-lunch kind of place on White Bridge Road, just across the road from Target. We stopped by on a weekday for lunch.

The inside is bright and clean, with booths and tables for ample seating. The service is cheerful, and on the day we were there the place was packed by the noon hour.

The menu seemed pretty standard for this type of restaurant – soups, sandwiches, salads. The restaurant also features a meat-and-however-many-vegetables-you-want option. I picked the standard soup and sandwich combo of the lemon artichoke soup, which is served every day, and half a chicken salad sandwich. The combo left me underwhelmed. Chicken salad is so pervasive that if you’re going to serve it, it’s got to have a memorable note to it. This version had nothing. The soup was more of a sauce more suitable for a topping for chicken than for soup; it was very gloppy. At $7.95 for the pairing, we felt that the portion size was much too small for the price; filling it out with an additional small side would have been a better offering.

Megan fared better with the four vegetable platter ($7.50), shown above. She chose pasta salad, a fruit cup, green beans, and sweet potato fries. The latter was a favorite of both of us; the fries were crisp and sprinkled with sesame seeds and were very flavorable. Everything else was just standard.

We both topped off our meals with the house fruit tea, which was nice with its touch of mint, but not really worth $2.50 per serving. In all, each of our meals cost about $13-14 when tax and tip were included, which seemed a bit pricey considering what we received. We’d prefer seeing more generous portions on the soup and sandwich combos and maybe some more inventive variations on the menu’s very standard offerings.

We noticed a sign that the restaurant is running a buy one breakfast entree, get one free special, which could be worth checking out.

Bridges Cafe
85 White Bridge Rd
Nashville, TN 37205
615.353.5707

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    Beth — May 25, 2009 @ 10:28 am

    Thanks for the review. I am “new” – three years – to Nashville. We are very underbudget ie my husband was just laid off, again, so we do not go out to eat very often. When we do go out, we need the experience worth the wait and money. There is nothing like spending good money on bad or boring food. I am following you on Tweeter and look forward to eating at a suggested resturant. BTW – If you make it to DC, you HAVE to go to Founding Fathers, a new local food resturant. The night out will take a BIG bite out of your budget but well worth it. I still dream of the fish. One thing though, you do not need to order dessert. It is under wellming. Thanks and keep up the good work.

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    Heather W. — May 25, 2009 @ 4:10 pm

    Beth,
    Thanks for the DC recommendation! I will try to remember to go there the next time I am in DC.

    We’re firm believers that you can eat very, very well in Nashville for not much money at all – so I hope you can get some good info from our sites to help you try out some good places in town.

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