Green Hills Grille (Cool Springs)

Sunday, November 06, 2005

Green Hills Grille has been a Nashville favorite for a decade and a half. They have set the trend for "casual fine dining" in Nashville, and everyone else follows. A favorite with the open-collar-with-jacket and cashmere-track-suit set, the menu and service that began at the original Nashville location usually set it apart from the majority of restaurants. Unfortunately, on the most recent visit to its Cool Springs franchisee, we found a departure from our expectations.

The Lactose Line


Green Hills Grille's menu is on their website, and most of the items are described in fairly good detail so that you can infer the lactose content of any given dish. Two major exceptions: their trademark Tortilla Soup is finished with cheese, so be sure to ask to omit that from an order, and their "Green Hills Greens" are anything but... being mostly a cheese delivery system, and not worth ordering without it.

On this visit, our server took about five minutes to get around to our table to take our orders. We watched him write down our order for the fish sandwich without cheese, with the tartar sauce on the side, and with steamed vegetables. Thirty minutes later, when the order finally arrived, the sandwich had cheese and tartar sauce on it, and fries as a side item. Fifteen minutes later, when the replacement sandwich came out, the fries had turned into vegetables, the cheese had disappeared, but the tartar sauce was on the bun.

Best Lactose-free options:

Brunch: Smoked Salmon Eggs Benedict (without sauce), Eggs Benedict (without sauce)
Appetizer: Tuna Tutaki, Tortilla Soup (without cheese)
Salad: Chinese Grilled Chicken Salad
Sandwiches: Best Grilled Burger in Cool Springs, or any (ordered without cheese)
Sides: Spiced Apples, Black Beans, Seasoned Rice, Thin Cut Fries, Steamed Vegetables, Snappy Corn, Asparagus
Entrees: Baby Back Ribs, BBQ Salmon (without grit cakes), Herb Roasted Chicken (without potatoes)
Pasta: Pasta with Roasted Pepper Marinara Sauce
Dessert: Raspberry Sorbet

Map and Directions:
at the Green Hills Grille site

Rating:
2 out of 5 lactose-free stars. Green Hills Grille is one of our favorite restaurants, and we will eventually go back to give them another chance, but the extreme inattention to our order, the low number of naturally lactose-free items, and the two menu landmines reduces its score for this review.

1 Comments:

At 8:37 AM, Blogger Lydia said...

This doesn't have anything to do with lactose, but if your party has EIGHT children in it, YOU DO NOT BELONG AT GREEN HILLS GRILLE! That is what Chuck E. Cheese is for. They can scream and eat lactose to their heart's content there.

 

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