🥘 Restaurants + cafés

• Provence Breads & Cafe | 22 years in business | The eatery serving breakfast items, sandwiches, soups, salads, and Intelligentsia Coffee also offered a wholesale operation locally for its freshly baked breads and pastries.

• Rotier’s Restaurant | ~75 years in business | An old-fashioned bar and grill best known for its cheeseburger on French bread, meat-and-threes, and milkshakes. Fun fact: Burgers initially cost 25 cents, before prices rose to 65 cents by 1992 and $7.99 towards the restaurant’s end.

🛍️ Retail + venues

• Bari-Mor Gifts | 43 years in business | The Nashville Scene described the shop in 1997 as being “famous for its clutter and its basset hound greeters.”
• Mills Bookstore | 98 years in business | According to the Post, the store was one of the first Nashville outlets for photographic services and supplies.

• 40th Anniversary Prince | Thursday, Jan. 11 | 7 p.m. | The Basement, 1604 8th Ave. S. | $10 | Prince’s “Purple Rain” album will be performed in its entirety.

• Wishing Chair Productions presents “The Frog Prince” | Friday, Jan. 12 | 10:30-11:30 a.m. | Nashville Public Library, 615 Church St. | Free | With the help of a golden ball, a lonely frog teaches a princess the true meaning of friendship.

• Craft a New Year: Beginner Craft Workshop Series | Saturday, Jan. 13 | 9 a.m.-4 p.m. | Tennessee State Museum, 1000 Rosa L. Parks Blvd. | $120 | This introductory class teaches you the art of Choctaw beadwork.
• Nashville Predators vs. New York Islanders | Saturday, Jan. 13 | 7 p.m. | Bridgestone Arena, 501 Broadway | $89+ | Cheer on the Preds on Teachers Night — a special package includes a custom Preds Teacher T-shirt with your ticket purchase.

• NFL Playoff Watch Party | Sunday, Jan. 14 | Times vary | Marble Fox Brewing Company, 701 8th Ave. S. | Free | It’s Wild Card Weekend at the brewery — come repping your NFL team for half off your first beer.
• Egg Class and Seated Dinner | Sunday, Jan. 14 | 5-7:30 p.m. | Miel Restaurant, 343 53rd Ave. N. | $150 | Chef Jason will demonstrate several recipes made with this timeless ingredient, including fresh pasta, hollandaise, aioli, and pavlova.

• Intro to Ballroom Dance | Monday, Jan. 15 | 6 p.m. | Arthur Murray Dance Studio Nashville - Green Hills, 4009 Hillsboro Pk., Ste. 211 | $15 | Instructors will guide you through the fundamentals of ballroom dancing with styles like the waltz, foxtrot, and tango.

• Developers behind JW Marriott are bringing a St. Regis downtown. Plans include 177 rooms, 111 condominiums, fine dining, a lobby bar, three-meal restaurant, and spa. A private park currently sits on the property next to JW Marriott, and construction is expected to break ground next year. (The Tennessean)

• Chef Maneet Chauhan’s Chinese restaurant Tansuo will close this weekend, with the last day of service set for Sunday, Jan. 14. The Gulch eatery is raising a glass to memories with half off all bottles of wine now through Sunday.

• Metro added ~15 blocks to its map barring street vendors on certain downtown corridors. New areas include between Union Street and Peabody Street, along the John Seigenthaler Pedestrian Bridge, and from 9th Avenue to the Cumberland River. (The Tennessean)

• A. Marshall Hospitality Restaurant Week is back Jan. 22-28 with specials, giveaways, and more across its five restaurant brands. Indulge in a $10 burger, fries, and milkshake combo from Burger Dandy or a $25 three-course menu featuring smoked meatloaf from Puckett’s. Explore the deals.

• Nashville and Franklin are representing as finalists for this year’s Good Food Awards. Harding House Brewing Co.'s two mixed-culture farmhouse ales — Branches Muscadine and Proleptic Green Tomato — were recognized. Southall Farm & Inn’s Creamed and Wildflower honeys are in the spotlight.

• The United by Hockey Mobile Museum returns to Nashville tomorrow, Jan. 12, this time at Ford Ice Center Bellevue. The free fan experience from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. celebrates the sport’s history and the trailblazers who had a hand in it.

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• Adventure awaits at Shaker Village of Pleasant Hill. Just 3.5 hours away, discover Kentucky’s largest National Historic Landmark with 36 miles of trails, four-legged farm friends, dining at their impossibly fresh seed-to-table restaurant, and unlock history by exploring 34 historic Shaker buildings. Book your weekend escape.*

• Cheekwood | Offers the opportunity to train as a Garden Docent, House and History Docent, and Exhibition Docent
• Nashville Zoo | Before you can become a docent, you must first join the Adult Volunteer Corps and complete the prerequisites.
• The Parthenon | Docents automatically become members of the Centennial Park Conservancy, receiving free admission to the Parthenon, discounts in the Museum Store, discounted ECHO tickets, and more.