Nashville Scene
My Dinner With Audrey: Sean Brock’s Elevated Appalachian Cuisine
By that measure, all of Audrey is art — the dramatically austere charcoal two-story building planted near the border of McFerrin Park and Cleveland Park in East Nashville; the planked-wood front door marked with Audrey’s cursive signature rendered in metal; the seamlessly blended rustic/contemporary/Japanese design ethos of the interior (by Powell’s Katie Vance); the effusively eclectic exhibition of art, photographs and textiles on the smooth concrete-skin walls; the George Nakashima spindle-back chairs, Holler Design wood furnishings, emerald-green chenille upholstered booths; the open live-fire kitchen with a walnut-topped pass, where finished plates are placed by Brock and chef de cuisine Colin Shane. – Kay West