Tennessee

• Nashville

  Nashville may be the face, heart, and soul of the country music industry, but it hasn’t let the rhinestones go to its head. This is still Music City, of course, but there’s something for everyone here—from country to bluegrass to alt rock to punkabilly, from the biggest names in the biz performing the famed Grand Ole Opry to the no-name area musicians who’ll rock your world for the cost of a beer (a local Yazoo, we hope). It’s where tourists and locals and Hollywood starlets may very well wind up on the same dance floor (true story!), and no one really cares: It’s only natural here that great music is so readily available and enjoyed by all. So it goes with the Nashville's regional food: Getting down and dirty with the legendarily fiery hot chicken at Prince’s, you might rub elbows with an internationally famous chef passing through, while at some of the more refined restaurants in town, you can dine on locally, thoughtfully sourced dishes for a fraction of what you’d pay in a bigger city. Perhaps Nashville’s family-style Southern-food joints demonstrate this down-to-earth accessibility best: No matter who you are, you sit with strangers, you eat with strangers—and you pass the fried chicken to your left.

  Nashville may be the face, heart, and soul of the country music industry, but it hasn’t let the rhinestones go to its head. This is still Music City, of course, but there’s something for everyone here—from country to bluegrass to alt rock to punkabilly, from the biggest names in the biz performing the famed Grand Ole Opry to the no-name area musicians who’ll rock your world for the cost of…   Read more

   

  Find local foods in Nashville.

  BBQ

  Chess pie

  Family-style Southern food

  Hot chicken

  Hot fish

• User Content

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  Local wagyu beef

  Nashville
  gbeehler
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  South appetizers

  Nashville
  gbeehler
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  Chicken with Waffles

  Nashville
  srosen
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  Hot chicken

  Nashville
  srosen

• • Smokey Mountain breakfast

    hungryel
    Pigeon Forge, Tennessee
    America is the breakfast capital of the world. I have been lucky enough to breakfast all over but will happily nail my colours to the mast of pancakes, grits, biscuits and gravy (wait...scratch the…    Read more

• Blog Posts

• Q&A: Patrick Martin, BBQ Pit Master, Nolensville, TN

  “I do what I love to do. I love to cook, I love to make folks happy with my food, I love to deepen my knowledge of cooking, I love going in to work. I love working the line.” –Pat Martin, owner and pit master, Martin’s…   Read more