The Best Places to Eat in Nashville

Leche de Tigre is a Peruvian counter tucked inside The Wash, the Nashville food hall where you can order a ceviche and carry it to a seat near the car-wash bays. The lomo saltado sandwich, sirloin and huancaina on buttery French bread, stays neatly contained, which is not a given in this city. Pair it with fries and a beer, order casually, and bring your own napkin discipline anyway.

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Sabell's is a brightly colored bungalow in Riverside Village that works as both a bar and a casual restaurant, with a dog-friendly patio and a salad-and-cocktail menu that skips the tweezers. There are no reservations and the volume stays low enough that you can finish a sentence. Kids are welcome until happy hour ends at 6, after which it belongs to adults, with za'atar fries. Nashville Scene named it Best Place to Eat Without the Kids.

1. Nashville Scene 2024 · Best Place to Eat Without the Kids · Best of Nashville

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The Yorkshire Deli is a British tea room in Kingston Springs, about half an hour from downtown Nashville, and it commits to the woodland-fairy bit with seasonal blooms everywhere you look. You email ahead to book one of four tea experiences, which come with scones, clotted cream, and finger sandwiches. There's a Mad Hatter tea party for kids, dress-up props included, and Nashville Scene named it a Best Worth-the-Drive Treat.

1. Nashville Scene 2024 · Best Worth-the-Drive Treat: Afternoon Tea · Best of Nashville

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1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Hot Chicken · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Hot Chicken · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Hot Chicken · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Hot Chicken · Best of Nashville

615Chutney is an Indian restaurant on Highway 70 South where the headliner is a robot named Singam, who rolls out curries and rice on a stack of shelves, wears electronic cat ears, and meows on approach. Only the half-booth, half-table seats get the robot service, so regulars know to ask when they sit down. Nashville Scene gave Singam Best Food-Serving Robot in 2023, which is a category I did not know I needed.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Food-Serving Robot · Best of Nashville

Bare Bones is a neighborhood butcher shop in the Nashville neighborhood of The Nations, where you go for good cuts of meat and leave with a tub of pimento cheese you didn't plan on. They pickle the pimentos themselves, which is why the spread runs sharp and zippy, and it won Nashville Scene's Best Pimento Cheese in 2023. Grating cheese by hand is a good way to lose a knuckle, so buying theirs is just self-preservation.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Pimento Cheese · Best of Nashville

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1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Fried Rice · Best of Nashville

Dumpling House is a casual neighborhood spot in Hillsboro Village where the dumplings are made fresh and the dress code is whatever you walked in wearing. The pan-fried chicken and coriander ones get the most talk, though the menu has plenty of company. It reads like a place you could have been going to for years, even if tonight is your first visit. The Nashville Scene gave it Best Dumpling Menu, which is a very specific honor to hold.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Dumpling Menu · Best of Nashville

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Flat Tire Diner is a no-frills breakfast and lunch spot in Old Hickory, the kind of place where the wait for a table is part of the experience and the staff turn tables so briskly you forget you stood there. Bread for the sandwiches and burgers is baked in-house, and the French toast gets a corn-flake crust and a pile of fresh fruit. Nashville Scene once named it the Best Reason to Go to Old Hickory, which is a narrow field, admittedly.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Reason to Go to Old Hickory · Best of Nashville

Gabby's is a no-frills burger counter that was smashing patties onto a hot griddle back when that wasn't yet a personality trait for every new restaurant in town. The menu stays short: grass-fed burgers, hot dogs, fries, and shakes, with a secret menu named after regulars, though you'll have to know the password. Nashville Scene gave it a Best of Nashville for Best Burger. Order at the counter, wear whatever you like.

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

Gio's Chicago Pizza is a deep-dish operation run out of a commissary kitchen in the Nations, which makes it a little like finding Chicago hiding in a warehouse. The chef came up through fine dining and a suburban Chicago pizzeria, so the deep dish arrives properly tall and heavy. There's also a thinner tavern-style pie cut into squares, for those who think a knife and fork are overkill. Nashville Scene named it Best Deep Dish in 2023.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Deep Dish · Best of Nashville

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

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

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1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Milkshake: Cold Brew Milkshake · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Milkshake: Cold Brew Milkshake · Best of Nashville

Killjoy is a small, sparkly bottle shop where every spirit, wine, and beer on the shelves has had the alcohol removed, which makes it legal to sample before you buy. That's handy for deciding whether a nonalcoholic sparkling rosé is your thing. It also hosts trivia nights, book clubs, author talks, and dating events, all sober. The name is a joke the place keeps telling by being good company. Nashville Scene gave it a Best of Nashville nod.

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Killjoy is a small nonalcoholic bottle shop in East Nashville, shelves lined with zero-proof spirits, wines, and beers. Since nothing in the building will get anyone in trouble, you can taste before you buy, which is how you find out if alcohol-free sparkling rosé is for you. It also hosts trivia nights, book clubs, and dating events, so the name is doing a lot of ironic work. Nashville Scene gave it Best Proof That Zero-Proof Isn't Boring.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Proof That Zero-Proof Isn't Boring · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Day-to-Night Taproom · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Day-to-Night Taproom · Best of Nashville

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Late-Night Bar · Best of Nashville

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1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Pulled-Pork Sandwich · Best of Nashville

Pinky Ring Pizza is a casual pizzeria in Madison, set up in a former Sir Pizza, which means the building already knew what it was getting into. The pies run from pepperoni and a New York-style cheese to stranger company like lamb with pistachio pesto, or one topped with dill pickles. There's garlic focaccia, a deep beer list, and half-and-half ordering for the undecided. Nashville Scene gave it Best New Pizza in 2023.

1. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best New Pizza · Best of Nashville

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Rice Vice is the taproom for Proper Sake, a casual sake bar where the menu describes each pour in flavor notes so specific they border on a confession ("bubblegum funk" is a real category here). Order the citrusy nigori if you're new, or something earthier if you're not. Food means snacks, with the occasional pop-up out front. Esquire put it on its best bars in America list, and sake fans fill the room.

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3. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Trend For Sake Lovers · Best of Nashville

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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

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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

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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.

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The Fox is an East Nashville cocktail bar on Gallatin Pike where the snacks are taken more seriously than the name suggests. A build-your-own charcuterie board and a plate of miso deviled eggs, which people tend to order twice, make up the dinner for plenty of regulars, and a vegan menu means nobody gets stuck with the garnish. It's the Nashville Scene's pick for Best Girl Dinner, and a Spirited Awards regional honoree for its bar team.

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2. Nashville Scene 2023 · Best Girl Dinner · Best of Nashville
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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

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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

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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.

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