M.L. Rose Craft Beer & Burgers (Nashville, Tennessee)

 restaurant, bar, 1920s construction, grill/meat restaurant

Tudor-style brick building constructed in the 1920's, was a former Pure Oil gas station until around the 1970's and Lavender Motors used car dealer and repair shop until 2010. The current building is now a bar and grill restaurant, opened on November 5, 2012 by restaurateur Ray Austin, the second location after Nashville's Melrose neighborhood. The property was bought by real estate investor George Spiva and restaurateur Ray Austin for $400,000 in March 2011 and began renovating and expanding the building in early 2012. 1,500 sq. ft. of covered space were added to the former used car dealer's parking lot, which is now an outdoor seating area. Only a few tried to convince Ray Austin to tear the building down and start from scratch.

This West Nashville location is gorgeous, with lots of exposed brick and warm wood tones to the decoration. True to the building's former incarnation as Lavender Motors, automotive design elements dominate the interior, along with some owl statuettes which refer to the restaurant's logo. Particularly striking is a huge chandelier-type sculpture constructed from old car mufflers which dominates the main dining room. There are also lots of fun hubcab wall hangings all over the restaurant and even the Lavender Motors original sign is still hanging above the wall outside, it is located in the patio seating area. The dining room has tall ceilings and a textured tin ceiling, but still manages to feel comfy and charming. A long bar stretches the length of one of the rooms, with over 25 beers on tap and room for even more. A host of high-def big-screen televisions (about 13 of them) should make this a very popular sports-watching spot, if any of the Tennessee football teams turn it around and become worth watching. The seating area is about 175. Most of the ingredients (e.g. eggs, bread, dairy products, etc.) are either produced locally or regionally.

4408 Charlotte Avenue
Nashville, TN 37209-3608
Phone: (615) 750-2920
Web: www.mlrose.com/

Lindsey Jewell, general manager

Hours
Sun: 10am-midnight (full menu until close)
Mon & Tues: 11am-midnight (full menu until close)
Wed-Fri: 11am-2am (full menu until 1am)
Sat: 10am-2am (full menu until 1am)

Must be 21+ to enter after 6pm (7 days a week)

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