Riffs is a venture composed of two guys who have found a love for the creative outlet that food has become in their lives and the joy that comes from seeing others enjoy their efforts.

In a world where words like local, organic, sustainable and even fresh are overused marketing blah-blah we have two people who don’t use those words, they live them.

The motto of the business is:  Eat. Good. Food.  This is less a motto than it is a way these guys lived even before it was cool and marketable to do so.  ”Good Food” is not only good in flavor but good in the sense that at the end of it you feel like you are glad you ate it.  Healthy dishes?  Check.  Decadent dishes? You bet!  But at its core is love, and a love you should be able to taste or something is wrong.

Anywhere you go in the world you find the most amazing and best tasting food from street vendors.  Why is that?  It is because these cultures had to learn how to cook for real.  Are they using the best cuts of meat or the most elaborate ingredients?  No.  These are people that had to create flavor out of nothing, because they have so little.  Yes, certain cultures have made the most amazing dishes from some of the most amazing ingredients.  But the REAL cooks, the REAL people they take the less desirable things and make the dishes you search out all your life.  You can’t sell that food on TV or at a McDonald’s.  But you taste something that was crafted, handed down from generation to generation perhaps.  The guys at Riffs have a love for street food that is unparalleled.

So how do you take something from the streets of Bangkok or Oaxaca and expect to do it any justice on the street in Nashville?  No more than you can expect to replicate a Jimi Hendrix guitar riff note for note.  But what you do is take what you’ve learned from those masters and create.  Some things will be note for note, and liberties will be taken with others.  This is what you can expect from our food.  Like a really good cover band the song list will change, but there will be many standards.

The hope is you will enjoy the food as much as there will be joy bringing it to you.