Nashville
Hot chicken, honky-tonks, and hushed songwriter rooms — the local picks for eating, exploring, and staying in Music City.
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South Nashville
Why it matters: Prince’s is the original Nashville hot chicken, a Black-owned business that has stayed in the Prince family for generations, now led by matriarch Andre Prince Jeffries. The recipe trac
Oak Hill
Just fifteen minutes from downtown, Radnor Lake is the city’s beloved wildlife escape, with quiet trails around a still lake where you can spot herons, otters, owls and white-tailed deer. The paved Ot
Broadway / Downtown
If you only do one honky-tonk on Broadway, make it Robert’s, where the bands still play real traditional country and Western swing instead of Top 40 covers. It started as a boot shop, so the wall is l
Downtown
Known as the ‘Mother Church of Country Music,’ the Ryman was the longtime home of the Grand Ole Opry and remains one of the finest-sounding rooms in America. By day you can take a self-guided or backs
Wedgewood-Houston
Santa’s Pub is a year-round Christmas-decorated karaoke dive inside a double-wide trailer, run for decades by a Santa-bearded owner and beloved for its come-as-you-are crowd. It’s cash only, cheap, an
East Nashville
This sprawling East Nashville park pairs a classic city park with the Shelby Bottoms Greenway, miles of paved and natural trails along the Cumberland River. It’s where East-siders run, bike, birdwatch
North Nashville
Why it matters: Slim & Husky’s is a Black-owned pizza ‘beeria’ started by three Tennessee State University friends who chose to build in North Nashville and invest in their own community. The made-to-
The Gulch
A low-slung stone building surrounded by the glossy Gulch, Station Inn has been Nashville’s home of bluegrass since 1974 and refuses to change. The room is unpretentious, the picking is world-class, a
Green Hills
Tucked in a Green Hills strip mall, the tiny Bluebird is where Nashville’s songwriters play their own hits ‘in the round,’ and where the audience is genuinely expected to hush and listen. It’s an inti
The Nations / West Nashville
Why it matters: This cafe is part of Thistle Farms, a nonprofit social enterprise where women survivors of trafficking, addiction and prostitution find employment alongside free housing, healthcare an
Germantown
This intimate boutique inn occupies a restored 19th-century building in walkable Germantown, with a handful of individually designed rooms named for U.S. presidents. It’s genuinely independent and per
Downtown / The Gulch
Set inside a magnificent 1900 Romanesque Revival railroad station, this hotel is worth a look even if you don’t stay, thanks to a soaring lobby with a stained-glass barrel-vaulted ceiling and original
SoBro / 8th Ave S
Jack White’s Third Man Records is a working record label, pressing plant and store rolled into one bright yellow-and-black space. Flip through exclusive vinyl, watch records being pressed through a vi
12 South
Why it matters: White’s Mercantile is a woman-owned ‘general store for the modern day’ founded by singer-songwriter Holly Williams. The 12 South shop is a well-curated mix of candles, apothecary, appa