Mackensy Lunsford
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Food and culture storyteller, USA Today Network South/senior dining reporter @tennessean/editor, Southern Kitchen. Will travel for 🦪food+music⭕️
ÜT: 35.595813,-82.549514
Joined May 2009
You’ve got a reporter credit on this one too!
Check out these 15 great steakhouses in the Nashville area https://t.co/vu6I9fcYpi via @tennessean @mackensy
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Here’s an intriguing question – Big names, big awards. But can Nashville's culinary soul survive? https://t.co/l7td9pKmQe via @tennessean @mackensy
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As Nashville rakes in honors and big names, local stakeholders wonder: How do you maintain a city's soul and the integrity while driving it forward?
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Stop everything and get to Ingrassia & Sons and get the porchetta. Trust. Me.
ooooo, this is an excellent list -- Nashville’s best sandwiches, from Food & Wine favorite to lesser known local gems https://t.co/9sEqGUokmL via @tennessean @mackensy
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Sooooo good — Nashville restaurant named one of North America’s 50 Best in prestigious list https://t.co/iBfDUMFD9E via @tennessean @mackensy
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Five years after opening in a pandemic, Trevor Moran’s Locust earns the No. 20 spot on the first North America’s 50 Best Restaurants list
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With "Zuzu"-stamped wasabi, a dress code and a DJ spinning house music reminiscent of HBO's "The White Lotus," Experience Zuzu is equal parts opulence and Instagram bait. An early look:
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It’s a spectacle — playful, theatrical and perfectly at home in the nightlife pageantry that defines this modern iteration of Nashville’s Broadway.
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Recession special o'clock at @RobertsWWorld with @Tennessean senior dining reporter @mackensy. More soon.
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One of the most powerful stories I've ever had the honor of writing -- A Tennessee teen lifeguard saved a man at the @ymca. How the rescue led to a new start for them both https://t.co/2u9GbqaoNW via @tennessean
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Teen lifeguard Katelyn Williams sobs after using CPR to save a 64-year-old man — and finds in him the father figure she's craved for eight years.
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Music Row veterans raise nearly $50K for beloved former publicist with dementia https://t.co/xC2NTu8Tob via @tennessean
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The outpouring will help pay for memory care for Kim Fowler, who 'sparkled' as she worked with Dolly Parton, Nickel Creek, Shania Twain and others.
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My favorite breakfast sandwich in town might be at Babychan. I mean we all knew it would be good but...
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Bon Appétit called Babychan one of the 10 Must-Visit Restaurants to Try This Spring. Though the opening was delayed, customers are already lining up
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The price of European wine is climbing as a result of Trump-era tariffs. Here's what that means for Nashville restaurants.
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The price of European wine is climbing as a result of Trump-era tariffs. Here's what that means for Nashville restaurants.
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"Some sort of sorcery is happening in that kitchen, and you owe it to yourself to experience it," @Tennessean's @mackensy wrote of Chef Jake Howell in naming Peninsula NV's #1 restaurant in the 2024 dining guide. He is now a @beardfoundation winner!
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This East Nashville chef was just named Best Chef in the Southeast by the James Beard Awards, the culinary world's highest honor.
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Checked out @KidRock's @cowboy546 with my @Tennessean colleagues business reporter @HadleyHitson and dining reporter and @southkitch editor @mackensy. Our beats occupy the same spaces now, more often than not. More soon.
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Get inside, Williamson County, my goodness.
NWS thinks the hail could be about the size of baseballs as the cell moves into Williamson Co, it should set off your phones because the hail is so big (WEA Alert) / / 412 PM
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Nothing says fine dining like boots on the table and a big old eagle. And yes, I will report back as soon as I'm able to get reservations. Kid Rock to open fine dining restaurant in Jow Muer Seafood spot:
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Joe Muer Seafood has been a mainstay of the Detroit dining scene for nearly 100 years. Joe Vicari Restaurant Group took over the brand in 2011.
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I can't wait for the Italian hot! Renowned Florentine sandwich shop All’Antico Vinaio announces Nashville opening dates:
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All’Antico Vinaio is considered one of the best sandwich shops in the world. Now, it's simultaneously opening two new shops in Nashville. Here's where
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Wow, this is an insane amount of rain!
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Communities in West and Middle Tennessee were plagued by a deadly string of storms last week. Here's how much rain fell and more on the suspected tornadoes.
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New details and opening dates for Nashville's historic Arcade. You have to see the sheer scope of the two-story Urban Cowboy + Roberta's Pizza. Gorgeous renovation work. I can't wait!
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The top talent behind a soon revitalized Arcade hope to create a legacy project that's in step with a city whose star is on the rise.
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Middle TN is tired. Dozens of tornado warnings overnight followed by flash flooding throughout the mid-state and greater Nashville area. Unfortunately we need to be ready for round 2 this afternoon and evening. Another threat for tornadoes, wind, hail and flooding rain.
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