City: Nashville, TN

Category: Restaurants

Telephone: (615) 254-1277

Address: 167 Eighth Ave. N.

Description: This 3-story 19th-century brick home features a refined Southern-themed menu. Once a boarding house and society club that hosted Nashville’s elite, The Standard is a treasure from the past. Magnificently renovated, it offers a cantilevered walnut spiral staircase, chandeliers, Victorian furniture, and a New Orleans-style boardwalk on the side of the house with working gas lamps. The menu offers such treats as crab bisque flavored with Tennessee whiskey, chicken Madeira, and Hot Brown Sandwiches, a Southern favorite of toast points prepared with sliced turkey, mornay sauce, julienne of country ham, and topped with fresh tomatoes and basil. The Standard is well known for its sweet potato fries and its crab cakes served with creole honey mustard and roasted corn salsa. If the Smith House looks familiar, it may be because it starred in a 2004 music video for Allison Krauss and Brad Paisley’s “Whiskey Lullaby.” The video won the CMA’s Music Video of the Year award.