Best bars in Nashville

Cocktail rooms, rooftops and unmarked doors — where to start a night and where to end one.

TypeAreaExperiencePrice

Cocktail Bar • $$$

No menu and no reservations: name a spirit and a mood, and the bartender builds from there.

Best for: Late Night

Dive Bar • $

A double-wide trailer with karaoke, cash only, and the most democratic crowd in Nashville.

Best for: Late Night

Cocktail Bar • $$$

The seated-only cocktail parlour that reset Nashville's drinking standards; no standing, no phones.

Best for: Date Night

Cocktail Bar • $$$

A tiny East Nashville cocktail room from Attaboy alumni, serious drinks without the wait.

Best for: Date Night

Rooftop • $$$

The Thompson's rooftop, the best skyline drink in the Gulch at golden hour.

Best for: Sunset

Rooftop • $$$

Noelle's rooftop bar over downtown, quieter early in the evening than Broadway rooftops.

Best for: Sunset

Beer Hall • $$

A Germantown biergarten with German drafts, house sausages and pre-ballgame crowds.

Best for: Groups

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