I’m going to let you peek behind the media curtain for a minute, Bites readers. I — along with most of the media distribution list in Middle Tennessee, I imagine — received a press release on Tuesday afternoon titled, “The Loveless Cafe Offers Original 1951 Menu Prices This August.”

“Well, that’s intriguing,” I thought as I clicked through. Sure enough, the beloved West Nashville restaurant was describing a promotion: On Wednesdays in August between 4 and 8 p.m., patrons could order from a throwback menu promising "Prices & Portions of 1951,” the year The Loveless first opened.

Digging a little deeper, I clicked through an attached image to see the limited menu of items. It was a fun retro pass at a menu, scrawled in handwritten cursive and printing, along with photocopied images of The

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