Thank you to our host partner!
Holiday Inn Nashville Airport, an IHG Hotel
2864 Elm Hill Pike Nashville, 37214
Vendor Information :
We are currently accepting restaurant applications to participate. Registration ends on March 20th. No fee for restaurants. Artist and Craft Vendors - $100 Booth Fee.
Fill out the form at the link below and a member of the team will contact you to go over the details.
Get ready for a one-of-a-kind evening celebrating the vibrant culinary arts scene in our community!
Join us on April 11th from 5:00 PM to 7:30 PM at the Holiday Inn Nashville Airport (2864 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville, TN 37214) for the highly anticipated annual Taste of Donelson Hermitage event.
Savor the flavors of our finest local restaurants, featuring everything from mouthwatering appetizers to tantalizing entrées and decadent desserts. Discover why they are calling Donelson Hermitage the new food mecca of Nashville!
More than just a tasting event, this is about community and connection—a chance to experience the tastes that make the burgeoning Donelson Hermitage food scene so unique.
Buy your tickets today for this taste-tempting evening brought to you by the Donelson Hermitage Chamber of Commerce.
We can’t wait to see you there!
Frequently Asked Questions / FAQs
- Are children allowed? Yes, we have a free ticket for children 10 and under.
- Alcoholic beverages will be served, please bring valid identification.
- Are there ADA-accessible parking spaces available? Absolutely!
Guest Judges
Mike Organ
Mike Organ started working at The Tennessean as a teenager in 1975 answering the phone and running copy in the sports department on weekends and keeping statistics at high school football games on Friday nights. While in his final semester of college at Middle Tennessee State in 1985, Mike performed an internship with The Tennessean. Two days after graduating with a journalism degree Mike joined the sports department as a full-time employee.
Mike then embarked on a career that over the next 30 years has proven to be one the most versatile of any writer who ever worked in The Tennessean sports department. It has included covering high school sports (1986-88), the Ohio Valley Conference/Middle Tennessee State (1989-90), serving as high school sports editor (1991-92), covering Vanderbilt (1993-2002), the Southeastern Eastern Conference (2003-04), area colleges (2009-present), sports media critic (2003-06), Nashville Sounds (2005-2009), golf, tennis, auto racing, outdoors (2000-present), Nashville Predators (2009-10, 12-14) and the Tennessee Titans (2022).
Mike was the Tennessee Sports Writer of the Year in 2023. He is in the Tennessee Sports Writers Association Hall of Fame and Metro Nashville Public Schools Football Coaches Association Hall of Fame. He is the founder of the DuPont High School All-Sports Hall of Fame.
Devon O'Day
Devon O'Day is the host of Main Street Today and Devon’s Table and co-host of A Taste of Nashville. As well as being a recognizable name in media for 20 years on radio, she is an accomplished author and has been a writer on songs recorded by Trace Adkins, Lee Ann Womack, Hank Williams, Jr. and penned a number one song for George Strait.
Devon was chosen Inspirational Country Music Air Personality of the Year 2019. Devon was honored as the recipient of the 2020 Jeannie Seely Standing Ovation Award by the Donelson Hermitage Chamber of Commerce.
Stuart Deming
With over 15 years in the hospitality industry and a background as one of Nashville’s earliest Uber and Lyft drivers, Stuart has always had a front-row seat to the city’s growth. These experiences inspired his mission: to create actionable content that allows people to experience their local communities in meaningful ways.
Through XPLR.NASH, Stuart continues to inspire both locals and travelers to dive deeper into what makes Tennessee special—one story, one neighborhood, and one adventure at a time.
Lelan Statom
Lelan A. Statom is an Emmy Award-winning meteorologist who has been helping Mid-Southerners start their day for more than 30 years at WTVF-the NewsChannel 5 Network. Since 1999, he has been part of the station's #1 rated morning newscast. Lelan joined the CBS affiliate in 1993 as weather anchor for all weekend morning and evening newscasts. Currently, he serves as Senior Meteorologist and is also Co-host of Talk of the Town, the station's long-running & top-rated talk show which is celebrated 40 years in 2024.
Lelan has been honored with 9 regional Emmy awards for his work at NewsChannel 5 and has been named Best Weather Anchor in the state three times by the Tennessee Associated Press. In 2019, he was named National Broadcaster of the Year by the National Weather Association.
Readers of the Nashville Scene & The Tennessean have voted him favorite weather anchor in Reader's Polls for each paper. Readers of The Tennessean and The Nashville News family of newspapers have voted him among the Best Dressed men in Nashville.
Lelan is a member of the National Weather Association & American Meteorological Society. He has the TV Seal of Approval from both organizations. He is the treasurer of the Nashville Assoc. of Black Journalists and is a charter member for the National Assoc. of Black Journalists' Weather and Climate Task Force which was recently established.
Mark Kelly
Mark Kelly is a morning anchor on Good Morning Nashville. His day starts when it’s dark outside at 2:15 AM. That early alarm hurts some days, but Mark loves his amazing co-workers and his job at News 2.
Whether you live in rural Tennessee, the suburbs or downtown Nashville, local news ties us all together, and Mark loves being a part of sharing those meaningful stories on the newscast three hours every day from 4 to 7 AM.
Mark and his wife, Sally, have been married 10 years this July. They have two wonderful girls, a cavalier pup, and live in Donelson.
They love walking the Stones River greenway, taking the kids to the playgrounds at Ravenwood and Two Rivers, and enjoying all the delicious restaurants around town.
Mark’s reported the news all over the U.S. - Missouri, Virginia, California and Florida - but he feels right at home here in Tennessee.
2025 Taste of Donelson Hermitage Sponsors
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We are looking for volunteers to help make this terrific event happen! Sign-up for as few or as many open tasks as you would like and come and join us in a Taste of Donelson Hermitage.
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