☕ The best fall drinks in Nashville

🐟 The Best Seafood in Nashville

There’s good seafood in Nashville? Folks, it’s true, and we’re talkin’ to Aloha Fish Company owner Jennifer Cheung Cline about how that’s possible on the City Cast Nashville podcast. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🗳️ Early Voting at Casa Azafrán

The early voting location Casa Azafrán, a community center on Nolensville Pike, provides assistance for Spanish speakers, and is a popular place for first-time immigrant voters. Voters also enjoy looking at the art as they wait. [Nashville Banner]

• Today is the last day to vote early. [Nashville.gov]
• Listen to the co-executive directors of Conexión Américas, one of the founding organizations behind Casa Azafrán, discuss creating opportunities for Latinos in Nashville. [🎧 City Cast Nashville]

🏘️ More Affordable Housing in East Nashville

Shelby House, a 195-unit affordable housing apartment complex in East Nashville, celebrated its grand opening this week. Holladay Ventures and Evergreen Real Estate collaborated on the project, and it will serve renters making 30-80% of Nashville’s Area Median Income (AMI). [The Tennessean]

• Check your AMI level here. [Nashville.gov]

🧳 MNPD Responds to Trump’s Mass Deportation Claims

In his campaign, former President Donald Trump has claimed his administration would carry out the largest deportation in U.S. history. The Nashville Banner asked local agencies how they would respond, and the Metro Nashville Police Department said they have “no authority to investigate or enforce immigration laws.” [Nashville Banner]

🫖 Hot Toddy at Urban Cowboy

Our podcast host Marie Cecile Anderson is obsessed with this traditional favorite from Urban Cowboy. With whiskey, apple brandy, lemon, and fresh whipped cream, it’s not your grandma’s sleepy-time juice anymore.

🌲 Phony Negroni! at Noko

Since it was recently featured on the New York Times’ list of our best restaurants, you’re not getting a table at Noko any time soon … but there’s probably room at the bar. Sidle up for our favorite zero-proof fall mocktail, the Phony Negroni!, featuring Tasmanian pepper berry and juniper.

🍂 Autumn Tonic at Elegy Coffee

How much seasonal goodness can one joint pack into a glass? Elegy Coffee accepts your challenge. Head to any one of its three locations for the Autumn Tonic, a cold combination of [deep breath] espresso, cranberry, rosemary, cardamom, tonic, and cranberry bitters.

🎃 Pumpkin Spice Cold Foam Chai at The Horn

Over on Murfreesboro Pike, authentic Somali cafe The Horn bills itself as having “the only chai that matters in Nashville.” Their seasonal pumpkin spice cold foam chai somehow manages to be decadent and light as a feather at the same time.

🍶 Hot Tadashi at Two Ten Jack

If Willy Wonka owned an izakaya, this is what he’d serve. Hot sake is mixed with miso butterscotch and bourbon, and poured into delicate cups for sipping. (The glass pictured above was for presentation purposes only.) The perfect sweet end to the divine umami on Two Ten Jack’s Japanese-inspired menu.