Whenever I stop by a restaurant with a popular musician’s name slapped above the title, there are a few famous touches that I’ve come to expect, like neon-embellished guitars and pun-strewn dishes, all meant to honor and reflect the artist and their collected works. See Toby Keith’s I Love This Bar and Grill in Bricktown, if you need a local example.
It was refreshingly not so, however, with Loretta Lynn’s Kitchen, 15366 Highway 13 S., in the rural burg of Hurricane Mills, Tennessee. A somewhat shabby building—what you’d expect from a “Coal Miner’s Daughter,” I suppose—with each particle-board wall completely filled with pictures and posters from the country music queen’s life, seemingly decorated by obsessed fans.