Operations may be disrupted due to COVID-19. Be sure to contact the restaurant to find out its current status and offerings.Virago Restaurant Review:
The quality of Virago’s sushi is high for this landlocked part of the country, and you can order unadorned rolls or sashimi with confidence. There’s plenty of fun to be had with such rolls as the Crazy Monkey, with eel, jalapeño, mango, avocado and cashews, or the Hawaii Five-O, with hamachi, escolar, hearts of palm, avocado, mango, toasted coconut, kiwi and macadamias. A robatayaki section on...
Once you step inside the front the door at Virago, things begin to feel far more LA than Nashville. The trendy postmodern interior design creates a polished setting for saki-bombing. Popular starters include the shrimp and scallop ceviche, Thai lobster shooters, and the crab and shrimp dumplings. From here, you can either dive into the sushi menu or veer to the rice and noodle offerings or...
While we still raise an eyebrow at this restaurant’s name (why name a hipster haunt after a bossy woman?) we’re mostly just glad to see that the ambitious cuisine isn't secondary to the glitzy, much-hyped social scene. Noteworthy Asian-inspired dishes continue to issue forth from the sushi bar and the kitchen, but most of the patrons choose to drink, flirt and mingle. Look for stone steak...
Hot restaurant off Music Row combines a hip scene and inventive fusion fare.:
In Short
The ultra-trendy Virago is part sushi bar, part late-night drink destination and part upscale restaurant. The middle room, with its cozy S-shaped bar, is a see-and-be-seen...