Wicked Tasty Podcast

In this episode, Katie and Memo Murillo, owners of Memo's Mexican Kitchen in Mt. Juliet, TN join the show.

We chat about their mission to bring authentic Mexican dishes to central Tennessee. You'll learn about history and culture behind traditional Mexican cooking and cuisine.

We dive into what has helped make their brand successful, including the importance of knowing their numbers, implementing technology in their marketing and staying true to their mission.

Memo's has one of the best cocktail programs in the greater Nashville area. They rotate in new cocktails seasonally and use inspiration, methods and recipes authentic to Memo's native Mexico.

We have an entertaining conversation on Mexico's tequila industry and dig into the differences between Tequila and Mezcal.

Welcome to the Wicked Tasty Weekly Recap for April 1st, 2022.

This week on the round-up Dan shares his Top 5 spots in Nashville to hear songwriters' original music.

Dan covers 3 fun things to do this weekend at Liquor Lab Nashville, The Gumbo Bros and Bringle's Smokin' Oasis.

Rony Stark owner of PennePazze is on a journey to open 100+ PennePazze locations across America.

The Italian inspired pizza and pasta restaurant in Nashville just celebrated their 2 year anniversary of their 1st location and is set to begin scaling it's operations with it's 2nd location opening in Murfreesboro, TN in late 2022.

From the beginning, the former basketball player from the professional Israel National Basketball League set his sights on building one of the largest Italian inspired restaurant brands in the United States.

Since the spark for the idea in 2012, Rony has meticulously built the framework for his American dream. He spent years developing the business plan and model, before even turning his attention to developing a menu. 

Which by the way, is as authentic Italian food as it gets. Rony spent time in Italy at culinary schools that specialize in authentic Italian pizza and pasta. Their head pizza chef is from Italy, too!

A calculated blend of technology, branding and strategic business plans has the PennePazze company well positioned to soon bring their pizzas and pastas to communities across the U.S.

It's baaaaaaaack! An all new season of the Wicked Tasty Podcast is back and I am so excited for our line-up of guests this season.

Each Wednesday we are going to have amazing restaurateurs from around Nashville and the country on the show to share the story behind their brands.

And a bonus! We are launching the Wicked Tasty Weekly Recap each Friday over on our YouTube channel. Go subscribe to our YouTube (Wicked Tasty) for the full episodes, with limited audio clips posted here each week.

Leina Horii and Brian Lea, creators and owners of Kisser BBQ in Nashville, TN join the show to share about their Japanese BBQ inspired pop-up. Both Leina and Brian have backgrounds in fine dining, including stints at acclaimed Nashville restaurants like The Catbird Seat and Bastion. They have branched out to create Kisser BBQ to share their love for the Japanese food Leina grew up eating.

Both Leina and Brian moved to Nashville from California and have a strong passion for providing fresh and wholesome dishes. Many of the vegetables and herbs used in their BBQ is grown in the 1,500 square foot backyard farm.

In this special Thanksgiving week podcast, Bryan Schroeder from The Giving Kitchen (TGK) joins the show to share about their TGK's mission. Since TGK launched in 2012 they have helped provide support to over 8,400 food service workers in Georgia and Tennessee. TGK is expanding in Nashville and across the Volunteer State and Bryan shares more about who they help & how you or your loved ones can get involved.

In this episode Will Johnson of Catapano Pasta join the show. Will shares his fun story as a business school grad, who spent a decade as a lobbyist, who turned into a chef & owner of a handmade pasta company in Nashville, TN.

The owners of Fat Belly Pretzel, Levon & Kim Wallace, join the show to share the story behind their epic pretzel brand.

Levon made his first batch of fat belly pretzels shortly after the COVID-19 pandemic hit as a way to spend some time with his kids and bake them a treat that they loved. After the first batch, they knew that they had a hit on their hands and were off to the races to turn everything into pretzels.

Big soft pretzels, stuffed pretzels, muffuletta on a pretzel bun, pretzel banana pudding. You name it, they can make it with a pretzel!

In this episode, the co-founders of Tootsie Lou's Tacos, a pop-up in Nashville, Tennessee join  the show to share their story. Coming from Austin, Texas, the team has a high baseline for what makes a good taco, but their tacos are anything but ordinary. Drew and Jeremy have backgrounds in fine dining and put unique twists to their food. Megan is using her FOH experience and art background to build a powerhouse taco brand in Music City.

We run the gamut in this one, talking everything from business to best BBQ regions across America. Enjoy the episode!

What is a Potako? Well, you're going to have to listen to the episode to find out! Sarah Dixon from Nashville's Potako Pop-up joins the show to share the story behind her wild and crazy delicious food idea. Sarah shares what it has been like to leave a well paying corporate consulting job to pursue her dreams of becoming a business owner and chef, how she came up with her innovative idea and her plans for making the potako a product everyone knows.