THE BEST Restaurants in Nashville
From street food to fine dining — discover the best restaurants in Nashville with curated picks, local tips, and free itinerary planning tools.
🍽️ Restaurants in Nashville
- Hattie B's Hot Chicken — A popular Nashville hot chicken chain that helped popularize the dish nationwide, with multiple locations and a medium-to-shut-the-cluck-up heat scale.
- Prince's Hot Chicken — The original Nashville hot chicken joint, founded in 1945, where the fiery cayenne-coated fried chicken tradition began — still family-run in east Nashville.
- Rolf and Daughters — A Germantown restaurant with a Michelin Bib Gourmand, serving Mediterranean-inspired small plates, house-made pastas, and natural wines.
- Husk Nashville — Sean Brock's celebration of Southern ingredients in a Victorian mansion in Rutledge Hill, with a daily-changing menu sourced from regional farmers.
- The Catbird Seat — An intimate 32-seat U-shaped counter restaurant in Midtown with a fixed tasting menu, where chefs cook and plate in front of you.
- Loveless Cafe — A 1951 roadside cafe on the Natchez Trace Parkway, famous for biscuits, country ham, and red-eye gravy, 20 minutes southwest of downtown.
- Martin's Bar-B-Que Joint — Pat Martin's whole-hog BBQ restaurant in west Nashville, preserving the South Carolina tradition of slow-smoking an entire pig overnight.
- City House — A Italian-Southern restaurant in Germantown by Chef Tandy Wilson, with wood-fired pizzas, cured meats, and a James Beard Award.