Nashville

Neighborhoods Worth Knowing

Nashville's in-town neighborhoods each have their own personality, and picking the right one matters as much as picking the right house.

• 12 South — Nashville's most walkable strip: bungalows, murals, and a half-mile of restaurants and boutiques you can hit on foot.
• The Gulch — High-rise condo living downtown, walkable to Broadway and the business core, priciest per square foot in the city.
• Wedgewood-Houston (WeHo) — Former industrial district turned art-and-food corridor, still has room to run before it's fully priced like its neighbors.
• Germantown — Historic brick rowhouses near the Cumberland River and Bicentennial Mall, a quieter alternative to the Gulch with the same downtown proximity.
• Sylvan Park — Quiet, residential, and built around Murphy Road and McCabe Park; known for supporting locally-owned restaurants and bars over chains.
• Green Hills — Suburban calm with urban convenience — top-tier shopping and dining a short drive from downtown.
• Belle Meade — Its own incorporated city within Nashville; grand estates, historic mansions, and some of the most expensive ZIP codes in Tennessee.
• East Nashville (Inglewood & Cleveland Park) — Victorian-homes-turned-hotspot since the late 1800s; Inglewood's Gallatin Pike strip and Cleveland Park's up-and-coming restaurant scene make this one of the city's fastest-appreciating pockets.

Where Locals Eat & Shop

Skip the Broadway tourist strip for these instead.

• Arnold's Country Kitchen — the meat-and-three that set the standard; expect a line at lunch.
• Hattie B's Hot Chicken — the hot chicken everyone actually means when they say 'Nashville hot chicken.'
• Pinewood Social — bowling, coffee, cocktails, and a pool under one roof in the Gulch.
• White's Mercantile — 12 South's general store for gifts and home goods with a Nashville point of view.
• Caffe Nonna — Nashville's oldest Italian restaurant, a Sylvan Park institution since 1999.
• Folk — chef Philip Krajeck's Cleveland Park spot: naturally leavened pizzas and vegetable-forward plates.
• Curry Boys BBQ — Inglewood's Indian-meets-Southern smoked meats, a genuine only-in-Nashville mashup.
• Bastion — Michelin-starred, 24-seat tasting-menu room in Wedgewood-Houston; reservations open monthly and go fast.
• Rolf and Daughters — seasonal New American cooking inside Germantown's historic Werthan Mills factory building.
• O-Ku — Germantown sushi with fish flown in from Tokyo and Hawaii, a regular pick for a nicer night out.
• etc. — chef Deb Paquette's Green Hills spot, Southern cooking with a global streak, since 2016.

Local Events

• CMA Fest — early June, downtown shuts down for four days of free concerts and fan events.
• Musicians Corner — free outdoor concerts in Centennial Park most spring and fall weekends.
• Nashville Predators season — Bridgestone Arena downtown, October through spring.
• Tomato Art Fest — early August, East Nashville's Five Points goes all-in on costumes, a parade, and tomato-themed everything; free to attend.
• Live on the Green — Lightning 100's free outdoor concert series at Public Square Park, late summer.