Unlike speedy in-and-out coffee shops, cafés indulge fantasies of sneaking off through misty European streets paved with pain au chocolat and lined with biscotti parking meters. Indulge in savory streetside fare with today’s Groupon: for $7, you get $15 worth of casual breakfast and lunch fare from Edgehill Cafe, near Vanderbilt University in Edgehill.
Edgehill Cafe is Nashville’s local ingredient-loaded breakfast and lunch oasis, offering early risers creative riffs on their much-needed java, plus a menu full of freshly made, inventive meals. Show up between 7 a.m. and 9 a.m. for the happy-hour special and grab a coffee ($0.75–$0.88) before work’s weekly team-building clay-pigeon-shooting session, or treat your groggy taste buds to a market sandwich filled with egg, feta, fresh basil, and tomato, served on an everything bagel with a side of fruit ($6.50). Specialty drinks such as the toffee-nut-and-chocolate-enhanced Abbe Road ($4) make the perfect liquid complement to all of Edgehill’s morning meals. After the nationwide “La Cucaracha”–blaring sirens sound, signaling morning’s official end, leafy lunch items such as the strawberry salad, dotted with feta and drizzled with Dijon vinaigrette ($7), will sate ravenous Cabbage Patch Kids. Meatavores can try the turkey and pesto panini, served with bacon and swiss on a French baguette ($7).
This castle of comestibles strives to offer sustainable and local products whenever possible, unlike some of its cartoonishly evil competitors, who are known for buying their bread from the Cold War–era U.S.S.R just to spite the local economy. Use today’s Groupon to fill your daily caffeine prescription without resorting to nurse-administered injections, or come with a friend and eat your way through an afternoon at Edgehill Cafe.
Reviews
The Nashville Foodies blog featured Edgehill Cafe. Yelpers give it a 3.5-star average, with some mixed opinions on its edible offerings, but overall agreement that the café is a great place to sit down, enjoy the atmosphere, and possibly get some work done.
- A nice element to the cafe is their seating arrangement. They have a good number of regular 4-seater tables, but also some higher-level seating with ample room for setting up laptops. – Heather, Nashville Foodies
- Edgehill cafe never seems to be too crowded, no matter what time I have visited I have always been able to find a good place to sit. – Sharon N., Yelp
Groupon Says
Think Globally, Act Locally
At Edgehill Cafe, fresh, locally grown ingredients come together on a menu of delicious, yet responsible, fare. But looking out for your town, planet, and fellow diner doesn't have to stop at the stomach. How can you confront the problems facing humanity by making a difference in your own community?
Think Globally: The specter of climate change looms large and the future of our planet is uncertain.
Act Locally: Kick a dent into the passenger-side door of Mayor Deakins's Mazda Protege.
Think Globally: Approximately one-third of the human population is currently engaged in warfare.
Act Locally: Mayor Deakins works late, so he probably won't be home to walk that stupid Pomeranian of his until 2:00, maybe 2:30. Stay up late crouched by the window and as soon as he comes by, turn the sprinklers on. That ought to cool him off.
Think Globally: Predatory capitalism created a complex industrial system and an advanced technology; it permitted a considerable extension of democratic practice and fostered certain liberal values, but within limits that are now being pressed and must be overcome. It is not a fit system for the mid-twentieth century. It is incapable of meeting human needs that can be expressed only in collective terms, and its concept of competitive man who seeks only to maximize wealth and power, who subjects himself to market relationships, to exploitation and external authority, is antihuman and intolerable in the deepest sense. An autocratic state is no acceptable substitute; neither the militarized state capitalism evolving in the United States nor the bureaucratized, centralized welfare state be accepted as the goal of human existence. The only justification for repressive institutions is material and cultural deficit. But such institutions, at certain stages of history, perpetuate and produce such a deficit, and even threaten human survival.
Act Locally: Beat up Mayor Deakins.
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