Café 100

This has been my go to place for a great weekday meal or celebration spot.
Service is always great.
Sally and Alex are fantastic.
Food is always fresh and hot to order.
New menu rotates and it’s always as good as the last.
Newly opened bakery most mornings- definitely worth it and tastier than other places.

Owner response

I'll start by saying we have eaten at Cafe100 several times prior to writing this review and each of those nights (which weren't holidays) the food, service, everything was phenomenal.
But last nights meal was so bad, its completely changed our minds on how we feel about this restaurant.
We booked reservations for valentines dinner weeks prior to.
The last time we ate at the restaurant they sat us at the chef's table which overlooked the kitchen and being the foodies we are, we loved having the view of the kitchen and the added privacy of that area so when we made reservations we specifically requested and even called the restaurant and confirmed they had our reservation and that we would be at the chef's table.
The night of, we arrive at the restaurant at 6:15, 15 minutes prior to our reservations.
We're told the table isn't ready yet but they have us checked in and we take 5 steps over to the bar area and each grab a cocktail and wait there...for over an hour...
A little after 7:30, we see the couple who had been sitting at the chef's table pay out and leave so we ask for our check at the bar in anticipation of finally being seated.
Then we see someone else seated at that table.
We make eye contact with the hostess and she immediately apologizes and says she will get us at the next available table.
We're sat at a table in the main dining room which is packed, so we now are starving, its been an hour past time for our reservations and we're at a table that's packed in between others where all of us can hear one another's conversations.
We order a bottle of wine and as soon as the waiter is ready to take our order we each give our full order from the Valentines prix-fixe menu and are hoping this night turns around.
The bread was fantastic, the wine was great, the whipped ricotta was amazing, and everything else that followed was absolutely terrible.
The bruschetta was all charred red onion, which again, this is Valentines Day, a mouth full of red onion isn't what we're going for.
Fairly certain they had run out of romaine lettuce and the Caesar salad was just a bowl of radicchio, which had a bunch of the hearts in it, no croutons, no added anything, just radicchio and was just inedible.
Then the entrees, I ordered the aglio e olio with chicken and my fiancé ordered the salmon.
The salmon tasted and had texture like it was frozen and then overcooked.
It was very dry and bland.
For the aglio e olio, was told they had run out of chicken so I opted for shrimp.
Once again, I'm pretty sure they ran out of spaghetti, which is what aglio e olio is traditionally made with, and they brought out a version with bucatini, which was a first for me.
The pasta was so undercooked that for the rest of the night I was picking out dried pasta from my teeth.
At this point its nine o'clock, and we're just ready to go home.
So we ask for the desserts to be boxed up, they did bring us a complimentary glass of champagne which was lovely and they discounted the pasta by 40%.
It was just a 100% let down.
We both were so excited for our meal and the experience and couldn't have been let down more.
Again, we have been before and everything was fantastic.
I feel like they could have done two seating times and they would have been able to pull off an amazing night for all.
Instead they tried to do too much with 3 seating's and it was a disaster.
My bill by the end, with discounted food, was still $220.
For $220 for two people, you can get a whole heck of a lot better of an experience at a number of other restaurants in Nashville.
If you're looking at eating here, do it on a normal night, not a holiday.
Absolute disaster of an evening and we couldn't have been more disappointed.

We really wanted to find a place close to us off Hwy 100 where we could go for a nice dinner, but everything we ordered was just a complete salt bomb.
If fresh, quality ingredients are used in the dishes (as I assumed, considering the prices), there is no need to add a month's worth of salt to the dishes.
The waiter didn't know anything about the wine selection, but that's not his fault since he seemed young and new/inexperienced.
Apart from that, we had issues when we were seated.
We got shoved into the back corner when there were several other tables open on a Wednesday night.
When we asked to move, the host said it wasn't possible.
About 5 minutes later, another couple got put at a small table by the bar, asked to move, and were promptly escorted to a new table.
(No idea why they were able to move but we weren't - was it a racial thing? Confusion on the host's part since he also seemed new? Who knows, but it left a bad impression.) It was not a pleasant experience, and we won't be returning.