"I 've been coming to Nashville with some friends every October for the last five years, so I 'm experienced enough to know how much of a zoo it is on a pleasant late-October Saturday, and I was as prepared as one could be for the madness of trying to get into one of the few restaurants there for lunch. We hadn 't been to Nashville House before and wanted to try something new, so we figured we 'd give it a shot. We walked in at roughly 11:40 or so. I was hopeful that we would be early enough to beat some of the crowds, and it definitely seemed like that was the case when we walked in, because the hostess told us that it would be about a 30-35 minute wait for a table for four. Now, I totally understand that this is just a best-guess estimate, so I figured it would possibly take a bit longer, but not an entire hour longer--we waited over 90 minutes before they called us. Because of how crowded the town gets, we were essentially stuck waiting there since the wait at any other restaurant would be astronomical by that point. We were seated at a table in the dining room, and to my astonishment, I saw that there were more empty tables than there were occupied. I 've worked in restaurants before and know what being slammed and short-staffed at the same time is like, so I am usually understanding, but I 'm not exaggerating when I say that there were at most 8 tables with people sitting at them in various stages of their meals while the lobby was packed with people waiting. Most of the empty tables were completely clear and ready to go. Keep in mind that this visit was on the third Saturday in October. It doesn 't take any effort at all to predict that this would be one of the busiest days of the year for the town, if not THE busiest, so staffing should have been at a maximum. Either it wasn 't, and management should have planned better, or it was, and the restaurant is horribly inefficient. Seeing as there were two people working together to clear a single four-person table, and that they also took a good 5-10 minutes to do it, I 'm willing to bet on the latter. About 10-15 minutes after being seated, our waitress came and took our drink order. I told her we were also ready to order food too (because by that point we had already had ample time to decide on what we wanted and I didn 't know when we 'd get the chance to order food anyway). I 'm glad I did because it took an awkwardly long amount of time to bring out 4 drinks and the basket of fried biscuits and apple butter. Speaking of the biscuits, a lot of the other reviews mention how good they are, but when I took the first bite--even in my ravenous state, mind you--my immediate thought was They asked themselves if they COULD do it but not if they SHOULD do it. The biscuits were rather unpleasant to eat for me, and I am by no means a picky eater. They were rubbery, and the taste of dough was so strong that I could barely even taste the apple butter I had slathered on it. Then the waiting game began. I 'd say we waited a good 45 minutes for our food to be served, and I don 't recall seeing our waitress more than once during that timeframe. When she brought our food, one of the dishes was not even the one that had been ordered. We (politely) brought it to her attention, and she kindly offered to have the kitchen make the right one and to let us keep the one she had already brought, but my friend declined the offer and just accepted the wrong dish because at that point, she was worried she 'd never get to eat otherwise. As far as the food went, it wasn 't terrible, but it wasn 't great either. Just average. With that said, it certainly wasn 't worth the wait and was very overpriced for the quality. What 's worse is that this place zapped over two and a half hours from our day which left us pressed for enough time to see the town. Maybe they just had an off day, but even still, we likely won 't be coming back here on our future annual trips to Nashville."
