My list of favorite restaurants from fine dining to hole-in-the-wall dives. These are only places I've personally been and I guarantee you'll love every one
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Southern cuisine meets fine dining in this former home turned restaurant. They have a garden for fresh produce on site and source from local farms as well
Husk Restaurant | Modern Southern Cuisine in Nashville Tennessee
My favorite sushi spot in Nashville (not counting Omakase experiences). Great cocktails, love the aperol-sake jello shot, and you gotta try the predator roll
O-Ku
Best oysters in Nashville. Brunch is great here, the caviar is great too!
Henrietta Red
Hot pot + kbbq? What more can you ask for? Great for those Sunday rot days to fuel up before the work week
Shabu-Shabu
70+ year old meat + three! Amazing food, melts in your mouth delicious and rotating menu for the different days of the week
Swett's
Mexican fusion and very fun restaurant. Great cocktails, tacos, queso, burgers, AND CRUNCHWRAPS
Redheaded Stranger
Classy tapas and wine bar. The meats are cooked amazingly and always taste great but the tapas are really where it's at. I suggest doing it family style
Barcelona Wine Bar
Located outside a sci-fi themed tiki bar (named Chopper) where they will bring the food to you, this food truck is AMAZING. Definitely recommend the quesabirria. The chef is also a James Beard semi-finalist
Maiz De La Vida Food Truck
Asian fusion at its finest. Feels fancy but doesn't hurt the wallet like you would think. Cocktails were amazing and I recommend the K-Pop Chicken
Koré
Best brussel sprouts in Nashville. Also highly recommend the corn ribs. Open, intimate concept where you can watch the chefs and usually need a reservation
Pelican & Pig
The closest thing to NY style pizza you can get in Nashville. I hear NY gets it's perfect dough consistency from the shrimp in the water and I'll take Frankie's Pizza all day everyday if it means I'm not getting the shrimp in the dough
Frankies 925 Spuntino
French cuisine at it's best. The French are known for fine dining and Margot's does it right
Margot Cafe & Bar
New in town and came in with a BANG! Curry Boys BBQ mixes Texas-style BBQ with Thai fusions. I haven't had a dish here that wasn't incredible including the cheesecake which is to die for
Curry Boys BBQ
My favorite burger in town and the competition is stiff! Great dive vibes with amazing burgers. Multiple locations for whatever part of town you're in
Jack Brown's Beer & Burger Joint Germantown
My absolute favorite authentic Thai restaurant! The staff is extremely friendly and the food is so good. I recommend the Pad Kra Pao with crab or the Pad See-Ew or one of their daily special curry's (they do a different curry for the different days o...
The Smiling Elephant
James Beard American Classics Award winner in 2009, Arnold's is a Nashville staple. Opened in 1982 it is a family-run Meat + 3 in the Gulch near downtown. They permanently closed due to COVID were able to open again in Aug 2024 thank goodness!
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Arnold's Country Kitchen
Perfect late night dive to get some food. Oldest dive in town and their burgers are great.
I love going here after a night out to get done late night grub and wind down