The Best Places in Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Farmer's Market: West · Best of Nashville

Savarino's is a small Italian bakery in Columbia, Tennessee, where the cannoli, sfogliatelle, and bomboloni come out of a family operation that started in a Walmart shopping center and now sells to the public only on Fridays and Saturdays. Plan accordingly, because showing up on a Tuesday gets you a locked door and a lesson in wholesale. Nashville Scene named it the Best Reason to Go to Columbia, which is a narrow field, but still.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Reason to Go to Columbia · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Shabu Shabu · Best of Nashville

Soy Cubano is a small, counter-service sandwich spot in a McKennie Ave strip, built around one thing: the Cuban. It arrives cut into neat triangles, with a thin toasted roll, two kinds of pork, Swiss, pickle, and the yellow mustard doing its job. It's a casual, order-at-the-register, wear-whatever kind of lunch, and it's the kind of place where precision is the whole personality. Nashville Scene named it Best Cuban Sandwich in 2023.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Cuban Sandwich · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Gen-X-Family Discovery That Has Been Around for Years · Best of Nashville

Spread is a small specialty market in Germantown, built for the moment you open the fridge and find only mustard and regret. The shelves hold tinned fish, odd spices, and condiments you'll swear you'll use, plus a short wine list and sourdough loaves baked in-house. The refrigerated case does the rest with charcuterie, cheeses, and marinated olives, and the staff will talk you into a whole dinner without anyone turning on a stove.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Way to Avoid Messing Up Your Kitchen for Dinner · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Place to Literally Look Down on Bachelorettes · Best of Nashville

The Wash is an all-outdoor food hall where several independent kitchens cook side by side, which makes it the cure for the family argument over Peruvian, pho, Cuban, or fried chicken. Everyone orders from a different window and nobody has to concede anything. It's built around takeout, so the move is a drink at the neighboring Bay 6 while you wait, then home to your own air conditioning. Nashville Scene named it Best Takeout Destination in 2023.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Takeout Destination · Best of Nashville

Tiff's Treats is a warm-cookie bakery on 12th Ave N, the kind of place where the smell reaches you about a block before the sign does. Cookies are baked fresh and priced like a small treat, not a meal. At the end of the day, the leftovers go into discounted bags through the Too Good to Go app, which Nashville Scene once singled out as the city's best anti-food-waste option. Late shoppers, take note.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Anti-Food-Waste Option · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Gyoza: Wagyu Gyoza · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Pierogies · Best of Nashville

Urban Cowboy Public House is a casual East Nashville restaurant, the kind where you can walk in wearing whatever you slept in and no one blinks. The kitchen turns out a cheese plate of stracciatella, a word meaning "little rags" that sounds like an insult but describes cream and mozzarella scraps. It's the dish people post about, which is how you know the cheese is doing a lot of the marketing here.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Cheese Thing: Roberta's Stracciatella · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Pairing · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Pairing · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Reason to go to Murfeesboro · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Farmer's Market: East · Best of Nashville

Assembly Food Hall is a food court with better lighting and local vendors, stationed at Fifth + Broadway so you can look at Lower Broad without being swallowed by it. It's where Nashvillians bring out-of-town guests to observe the neon chaos from a safe distance. Everyone in your party can find something they want to eat, which is rarer than it sounds. There's usually a band playing acoustic covers at you, free of charge and not optional.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Place to Take a Friend Who Wants to Go to Broadway · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Broadway Bar that Doesn't Feel Like Broadway · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Connection Between Two Hot Neighborhoods · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Downtown Treat · Best of Nashville

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