Sitting at a back table inside Streetcar Taps & Garden, their newly opened neighborhood gastropub on Charlotte Pike, partners Carter Hach and Henry Beveridge reflect on the history of the space. The circa 1897 building was in the heart of a commercial development originally called New Town, and in 1901 it housed Lovell’s, West Nashville’s first grocery store. For Carter, it also taps into his personal history, which in many ways parallels that of his grandmother, Phila Rawlings Hach.
Phila, as she was simply known, was the Grand Dame of Country Cooking. Hers, the South’s first cooking show, taped at WSM studios in 1950; cookbook author with 19 books to her credit; caterer, including the famous United Nations luncheon for 1700 guests in Centennial Park; and innkeeper/founder of Hachland Hill, which opened in 1956 in Clarksville.
