Nashville’s Best
A weekend in Nashville was on our bucket list this year, so you’re in luck if it’s also on yours.
Yall….the energy, the incredible music, that southern charm, Nashville is truly a gem of a vacation destinations that is perfect for anyone. Another huge perk? Nashville has some insanely good food spots that we had to work into our trip.
I lived in Nashville back in 2007 and the growth the city has experienced in the past decade is incredible. The best time to visit the city is between Spring and Fall but wanted to avoid those peak heat months in the middle of the summer. We opted for May which will be a comfortable time of year to catch Ubers or walk around.
For this trip, I’m the only person that has been to Nashville so it’s been my duty to prep everyone for what to expect and I’m going to tell you what I told them….
Nashville will bring out your 20’s again. It’s the kind of city that makes you want to dance even if you don’t know the steps, sing even if you don’t know the words, and drink even though it’s 2pm….or 2am.
Between my experience with the city, plus the plethora of recommendations we got from friends and locals, I have included all the good stuff to this travel guide.
Breakfast
Milk and Honey (such a great spot!)
Biscuit love
Blue stripe
Sheps deli •
Fido
Buttermilk ranch
Loveless Café (30 min out side of Nashville… but with it)
Monell‘s
Brunch.....or lunch
Stateside Kitchen @ The Dream Hotel
Milk and Honey (such a great spot!)
Tavern in Midtown (2 for 1 drinks)
Stateside (bottomless mimosas)
Hampton Social rooftop
Bartaco
Bottle Cap
Burger Up
Embers Ski Lodge
Flip Side
Saint Anejo
The Southern
Urban Grub
Frisky frog
Sinema
The Mockingbird
Emmy Squared (THE BEST hangover food!) best pizza and burger
Sunda for sushi
Bar Taco
Whiskey Kitchen
Butcher Town
Little donkey
Bakersfield (BEST queso on broadway)
The Chef and I
Franklin lunch spots / things to do
cute little town outside of Nashville definitely worth the drive
55 south
Gray’s on Main
Pucketts Leipers Fork (Country bar that sometimes has live music)
Leipers fork distillery (whiskey tasting/ tour. Tickets are 18$)
Dinner
Church and Union
Kayne Prime
Bourbon steak
Virago
60 Vines
St Anejo
Urban Grub
O’ku for sushi
Geist
Butcher Town Hall
The Optimist
Twelve Thirty Supper Club (Justin Timberlakes restaurant)
House of Cards (A super cool experience, a speakeasy in the Johnny Cash hotel and it’s a fine dining steakhouse)
Downtown Drinks / Music
Whiskey row
Roberts
Tootsies
Nashville underground
Printers Alley (this is a whole separate area of Broadway that has tons of bars around it)
Skulls
Nashville underground
Acme
Dirty little secret (like a club)
Tin Roof (one of my faves!)
Hampton Social rooftop
Kid Rocks Bar
Casa Rosa (Miranda Lambert’s Bar)
LA Jackson rooftop bar (can be a wait on weekends, it’s on top of the Thompson hotel)
Patterson house
Flamingo
The Bobby Hotel rooftop bar (I stayed here last time, great views!)
Jason Aldean’s Bar
Luke’s
FGL HOUSE (Such a fun bar!)
Midtown bars
Losers and Winners (good for weekdays)
Red door ( ask the bartender where the hole is in the floor and you all have to look at it. It’s a Nashville tradition. Also ask for the pineapple vodka .. it’s so gross but fun)
Dogwood
Demonbruen bars
Tin roof on Demonbreun (my fave place)
Live Oak (usually have really good live music)
Doghouse
Germantown bars
Neighbors germantown
Mothers ruin (my fave place)
Sonny’s
Von Elrod’s
Gultch rooftop bars
The Thompson Hotel LA Jackson
The W hotel proof
Shopping / other things to do
Frothy Monkey Coffee (Taylor Swifts coffee shop) & Shopping 12th Ave South
Shopping in Green Hills
Listening room cafe (Songwriting restaurant with dinner and a show)
12 South White’s Mercantile
Vinnie Louise
In Hillsboro village
Impeccable Pig
Posh
5th and Broadway all new shops
Pinewood social
