Meet the
McCormicks
About Pinewood Kitchen & Mercantile
The Pinewood Kitchen & Mercantile has something for everyone. Our farm-to-kitchen café dishes up a variety of down home country foods, all made with fresh local ingredients including farm-raised meat, eggs, and vegetables. From our scrumptious stews and juicy burgers to our homemade biscuits and crispy pizzas, you are sure to find something for everyone in the family to enjoy. We also offer plenty vegan and gluten-free options, so if you have food allergies or sensitivities, a special diet, or just enjoy quality delicious food, we’ve got what you’re lookin’ for.
The Pinewood Kitchen & Mercantile is a vintage gas station (yep we still sell gas), casual café, and mercantile loaded with treasures with humble beginnings dating back to the 1920’s.
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Meet the McCormicks
He’s the cowboy & she’s the cook and today, real food wellness chef Mee McCormick and her husband and local rancher and farmer, Lee, have teamed up to bring you local dishes that are chock-full of natural goodness and flavor. The McCormick’s do their best to avoid GMO’s, pesticide & harmful additives and preservatives. Preparing food the old fashion way – simple, good and with purpose.
Our farm-to-table restaurant pays homage to the small, rustic town of Pinewood, Tennessee with a little McCormick twist. You can often find live musicians jamming in the restaurant, fresh new dishes and mouthwatering smells coming from the kitchen, locals gathered around for community cooking classes, and an always welcoming, smiling faces of the McCormick family and Pinewood’s friendly staff. Not only do you get a delicious, wholesome, and filling meal, but you will never experience a dull moment at our café. Our menu changes daily, so you’ll never be bored. Our food goes straight from the fields to the frying pan, so we’re always dishing up the freshest, seasonal fare available.
Mee McCormick
Mee McCormick is a Real Food rock star. She’s a writer, restaurateur, TV cooking personality, farmer, rancher, wife and mother.
Wellness and positivity are promoted in every aspect of her life, whether it is through her book, My Kitchen Cure, or her contributing segments on Today In Nashville – Mee Inspires others to participate in their wellness physically, emotionally & spiritually.
In what was once a food desert, she and her husband Lee, created Pinewood Farms where they grow bio-dynamic produce, raise grass fed – grass finished beef, and pasture wood raised pork. Mee believes in building community through food and provides nutritional education and nourishing meals at her farm-to-table restaurant, Pinewood Kitchen & Mercantile located on Pinewood Farms 45 minutes west of downtown Nashville. No one goes hungry under Mee’s watch as she feeds everyone in the community regardless of their ability to pay.
Mee McCormick doesn’t believe there is one food path to wellness and she recognizes that we all have different needs and desires. In Pinewood this inclusive belief system makes for an amazing spread of gorgeous food. Mee’s expansive food point-of-view combines her classical French training, down-home American cooking, vegetarian, macrobiotic, vegan, paleo, keto, food allergy training and clean eating, with a deep understanding through her own personal experience. Digestive disease has been a part of Mee’s story as her mother suffered from this affliction her entire adult life and died at the age of 39. When Mee was 25 she too fell ill with a debilitating digestive disease and she was determined to change her life’s outcome. Mee cooked her way to wellness, changing her plate and changing her fate.
Hours of Operation
KITCHEN HOURS:
Thursday 11-3pm For Lunch
Friday 11am-9pm
Saturday 8am- 9pm Breakfast Lunch & Dinner
Sunday Brunch 8am – 5pm
*WE ARE AVAILABLE FOR CATERING EVERY DAY OF THE WEEK AND FOR PRIVATE EVENTS.
MERCANTILE HOURS SAME AS RESTAURANT:
Thursday 11-3pm
Friday 11am-9pm
Saturday 8am- 9pm
Sunday 8am – 5pm