The Best Places to Eat in Nashville

par The OpenTable Team

Mise à jour le 26 février 2020

Nashville is famous for three things: great music, warm hospitality, and inventive cuisine. When one thinks of Tennessee meals, food like barbecue and fried chicken come to mind. Yet, Nashville is more than just meat and top chefs are reinventing this Southern cuisine. But where are the smartest, savviest diners eating out? Welcome to the Tastemaker Lists. We’ve pulled data from thousands of restaurants to find the top spots among OpenTable's most expert, seasoned diners. Iconic Nashville dishes like “meat and three,” fried catfish, cornbread, mac 'n' cheese, and country ham all get a chance in the limelight, but so do some more exotic plates. Book a table and get eating at some of these Nashville icons.

Park Cafe

4.8

4.8 (1335)

30 $ ou moins

Américaine contemporaine

Sylvan Park & Sylvan Heights

À propos du restaurant

This minimalist bistro is a great example of how Nashville chefs are succeeding in soul fusion. There’s nothing more “Nashville” than the smoked Springer Mountain chicken. It’s served alongside house bacon, crème fraiche potato salad, and fried dill pickles and topped with an Alabama white sauce.

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NashvilleDiner

Y est allé·e le 26 mars 2022

Terrific restaurant. Great atmosphere, perfect service, and unique menu choices.

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Giovanni's Ristorante - Mid Town

4.8

4.8 (1647)

De 31 $ à 50 $

Italienne

Music Row

À propos du restaurant

This high-end restaurant specializes in Italian cuisine with a Southern twist. The ambiance is rustic — drawing both on Nashville and Northern Italy. The mac and cheese with ham and peas is a dish that is popular in both Italian and Southern cuisines. For the main event, order the chicken. It’s served on the bone with sausage, oil, garlic, and potatoes.

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OpenTable DinerVIP

Y est allé·e le 21 déc. 2022

Excellent service!

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Tagliatelle alla Bolognese

Trattoria Il Mulino - Nashville

4.6

4.6 (3565)

50 $ et plus

Italienne

Centre-ville

À propos du restaurant

You might forget you’re in such a laid-back city while sitting at a booth at Il Mulino. The Nashville outpost of this Italian restaurant screams class while embracing the flavors of the South. Here, you’ll never go wrong ordering the cowboy ribeye, served with asparagus, marasala, and mushroom ragout.

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OpenTable DinerVIP

Y est allé·e le 19 mars 2024

La nourriture et le service exceptionnel. Attention tres grosse portion. Partager est une bonne idée

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4.5

4.5 (4868)

50 $ et plus

Grillade

Centre-ville

À propos du restaurant

Another famed high-end steak chain that’s made its way to Nashville is the Palm. The décor is just as interesting as the Palm’s locations in other cities (full of caricatures of celebrities and memorabilia), and their menu is as classy. The food speaks for itself here. When in doubt, order the filet medallions. Make it a “meat and three” by adding an order of the green beans or three-cheese potatoes au gratin on the side.

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OpenTable Diner

Y est allé·e le 13 févr. 2022

Valentines

Bob's Steak & Chop House - Nashville

4.8

4.8 (3527)

50 $ et plus

Grillade

Centre-ville

À propos du restaurant

Possibly one of Nashville’s most iconic dishes (and exports) is hot chicken. Not for the faint of heart, hot chicken is an eye-watering dish that one might guess was a dare (it was actually a revenge scheme gone wrong). Many locals and tourists head to the hot chicken shacks in the city to try this delicacy. Luckily, Bob’s Steakhouse has created an upscale version of the dish that they serve in a setting one might expect to find in a Waldorf Astoria. The portions here are still quite sizable (what you would expect to find in a steak house instead of an upscale dining room), and the hot chicken isn’t so hot that it induces the pain and suffering you might find at the shacks.

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OpenTable Diner

Y est allé·e le 30 oct. 2022

Excellent!!!

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Plat populaire

Prime Ribeye

Plat populaire

Veal Porterhouse Chop

Maggiano's - Nashville

4.7

4.7 (7181)

30 $ ou moins

Italienne

Belmont / Hillsboro

À propos du restaurant

While most diners might not consider Italian food to be a part of the Southern culinary landscape, Nashville was home to a huge wave of Italian, German, and Polish immigrants in the 19th and 20th centuries. Luckily, many restaurants celebrate this immigrant past through the iconic dishes that now call Nashville home. Few other restaurants can celebrate this union of European and country cuisine better than Maggiano’s Little Italy in the West End. The candied smoked bacon is the perfect example of American and Italian cuisine. Candied bacon in itself is just about as Southern as you can get. Pair that with a dollop of ricotta, fig jam, and a handful of arugula? You’ll wish you had paid more attention in history.

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OpenTable DinerVIP

Y est allé·e le 17 mars 2019

My Absolute favorite place

Ruth's Chris Steak House - Nashville

4.6

4.6 (2719)

50 $ et plus

Grillade

Music Row

À propos du restaurant

Ruth's Chris might be famous across the country as the place for meat, but in Nashville (where meat is king) it’s an even bigger deal. Since bigger is better when it comes to meat in the South, the tomahawk ribeye is the dish to order here. This USDA 40-ounce ribeye is a great example of a marbled steak. Herbed butter tops all steaks, which come with a choice of accompaniments. The ambiance is upscale and reminds diners of the musical acts that pinned Nashville to the map. Chandeliers twinkle from above and are reminiscent of the ones at the Grand Ole Opry itself — making diners the stars of the show.

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OpenTable DinerVIP

Y est allé·e le 8 févr. 2023

Excellent !

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