Eric and Katie over at Nashville Restaurants have stumbled upon Manny’s House of Pizza in the Arcade downtown. If you’ve ever visited this great little pizza place, you know that this is the closest Nashville gets to having it’s own version of Seinfeld’s Soup Nazi. It pales (fortunately) in comparison with the rigid ordering process required for George or Elaine to come away with a bowl of soup, but it can be a little intense letting Manny and company know what you want for lunch.

House of Pizza isn’t just a figurative hole in the wall. It really does feel like some pizza cave inside of the Arcade in downtown Nashville. It’s also the closest thing we’ve come to an authentic Northeast pizza joint here in the Nashville area. The worn little dining room in back; the cramped way you have to stand over the counter when you order; the back and forth between Manny and his regulars: I am transported back to the Kenmore Square in Boston.

Eric and Katie have also discovered a new all-you-can-eat Southern cooking buffet and a new Mexican restaurant that looks pretty sharp. Those pretzels are not making me thirsty, but all of this talking about food is making me hungry.