In THE NEWS: The Tennessean’s Charles Booth reports the July 1 opening of Arrington Vineyards, which is owned by country music star Kix Brooks and Brentwood residents Fred Mindermann and Kip Summers, will have its 11 different varieties of wine available for tasting and purchase beginning at noon. The winery, located in rural Arrington off Patton Road, will be the only place the locally produced wine will be sold. Wine tasting is free, but patrons will only get a half-ounce of each wine. Bottles can be purchased and consumed on the property, and a large deck with a view of the surrounding hills is equipped with tables for this purpose. Arrington Vineyards will be open Monday through Saturday from 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. and on Sundays from noon to 5 p.m. … The Rage and Tennessean columnist Dana Kopp Franklin reports on the recent opening of Blue Moon Lagoon, the long-awaited new seafood-centric restaurant at Rock Harbor Marina. The restaurant space at the marina had been empty since 2005, when Buddy ”Uncle Bud” Rogers closed his catfish-centered restaurant there. The current owners are Steve Ford and music business veteran Erv Woolsey; they hired high-profile chef Scott Alderson to create the menu. (525 Basswood Drive. 354-1318. Hours: 5-9:30 p.m. Wednesday-Thursday; 5-10:30 p.m. Friday; 11 a.m.-10:30 p.m. Saturday-Sunday. The bar opens at 2 p.m. Wednesday-Friday and 11 a.m. Saturday-Sunday, and it stays open later than the kitchen.). bluemoonlagoontn.com … The Veggie Cafe will open its temporary location July 1 at 1312 McGavock Pike, the Tennessean’s Angela Patterson reports. A subsidiary of Prestige Consulting Group, LLC, The mobile kitchen will serve delicious vegetarian and vegan dishes including sandwich wraps, soups and salads and non-dairy smoothies. Co-owner Dawn Fears said the menu that is 90 percent vegetarian, with an emphasis on organic foods grown here in Tennessee. Prestige plans to open a brick-and-mortar Veggie Café this fall. Until it opens, the company will use its mobile kitchen. The mobile Veggie Cafe will open from 10:30 am–6 pm Monday-Friday. Orders can be called in at 495-8888. … The Tennessean profiles chef Donald Main of Tin Angel, whose favorite area restaurants include Kien Giang, Mambu and Caffe Nonna. tennessean.com … The Rage looks at wine and cheese pairings. nashvillerage.com …

The Scene’s Carrington Fox reviews Belmont Boulvard’s superlative PM. … Fox also reports on the scheduled late summer opening of a Cool Springs (401B Cool Springs Blvd., Suite 220) branch of Hillsboro Village’s popular McDougal’s chicken fingers and wings joint as well as the recent departure of chef Joe Shaw from Watermark. Writes Fox, “Citing an amicable departure with Watermark’s owner, health care executive Jerry Brown, Shaw is exploring other culinary opportunities but has no clear next step. “I very much want to stay in Nashville. It has become my home in the last two years,” says Shaw, an Alabama native who worked in catering and at Frank Stitt’s Bottega restaurant in Birmingham before the launch of Watermark in November 2005. Chef de cuisine Sean Norton will oversee the kitchen and the current migration to the summer menu. nashvillescene.com … Nashville City Paper profiles Restaurant Zola chef and co-owner Deb Paquette, who reveals a fondness for peanut M&Ms, and a talent for riding a unicycle. … The City Paper also reports that Dippin Dots, which is headquartered in Paducah, Ky., but whose founder Curt Jones and company president Tom Leonard both live in the Nashville area, may move some of their operations to Nashvillle. Dippin’ Dots recently opened a franchise store at the Kroger Plaza on Nolensville Pike in Brentwood and plans to open another location in Spring Hill sometime in July. … Bloggers Nashville Restaurants nashvillerestaurants.blogspot.com review Piranha’s (113 2nd Ave. North).

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