Turkey and the Wolf Icehouse

Mason Hereford built one of the most acclaimed sandwich shops in America in New Orleans before bringing the concept to Nashville, and the Icehouse format gives the idea room to breathe. The sandwiches are still the point — the collard green melt, the loaded creations that sound insane and taste better than that — but the full-service model adds natural wine, a bar program, and the feeling of being somewhere with genuine personality.

The food philosophy is easy to summarize: take comfort food seriously without taking yourself seriously. The collard green melt is a study in how a vegetarian sandwich can make a table of carnivores not notice. The other sandwiches operate at the same level — oversized, structurally sound, built with flavor logic rather than just more-is-more instinct.

The natural wine list is curated with the same sensibility as the food — fun, unpretentious, interesting. The room is the kind of space where you can tell the people running it have good taste without them needing to announce it.

Turkey & the Wolf is one of the most fun restaurants in Nashville, and fun — in a city that sometimes takes itself too seriously — is genuinely underrated.

Turkey & the Wolf is one of the most fun and seriously good restaurants Nashville has. Full review coming and it's going to be enthusiastic.