Nashville Recommendations

Salutations all!

Anyone have Nashville suggestions? Music, food, fun things, oddities?

It's my first trip down and I am eager to do much exploring.

Stay in upscale Brentwood area for safety and good restaurants, shops. But all the entertainment etc. is near downtown. If you don't visit for a concert, you have to go to the Grand Ole Opry anyway, even if you don't like Country. It's an amazing place.

Go at the right time and the Gaylord Opryland Complex can be quite awesome and give you a taste of whatever theme in music and nightlife you want. I don't know how well they have recovered from the flood in 2010, but the place was incredible before, and I can only imagine what forced renovation may have done to the place. The folks behind it are very creative and get tourism. I think they also have tours and van trips that leave the complex to visit the various flavors of Nashvile, whether that be music, sports, fun nightlife downtown, or the old grand places if you are into architecture and antiques.

It is possible to enjoy everything that region has to offer while staying there.

Gosh, now I may have to call off my trip to Atlanta and Savannah and go there instead later this Spring.

Downtown/2nd Street/Printers Alley can be fun for a day but very touristy.

I suggest some off the places near Vandy's campus may be more fun/certainly less touristy.

Hermitage Hotel downtown is very nice. Or at least it was about six or seven years ago when I was last there. Nice, old Beaux Arts style hotel.

Hermitage Hotel downtown is very nice. Or at least it was about six or seven years ago when I was last there. Nice, old Beaux Arts style hotel. Originally Posted by TexTushHog

It is infinitely more expensive now; it underwent a major renovation a few years back and now is Nashville's only 5-star hotel. However, if you decide to stay there, you might as well check out the Tennessee Performing Arts Center's website (http://www.tpac.org/ ) schedule for the period during which you are visiting. Depending on how tightly you are booked, TPAC is located practically next door to the Hermitage Hotel.

Work picks my hotel for me, have no say in that matter!

Work picks my hotel for me, have no say in that matter! Originally Posted by Lauren Summerhill

Must be hell working for Tom Bodett. I assume the light he keeps on is red?

In Centennial Park, which is located near Vanderbilt University, you will find a full-scale replica of the original Parthenon in Athens (http://www.nashville.gov/parthenon/ ). (Indeed, long before Nashville became known as Music City, it was dubbed the "Athens of the South" because of the high concentration of universities in its confines.)

One of my favorite restaurants in that area is Ted's Montana Grill (2817 West End Ave.); their menu (http://www.tedsmontanagrill.com/menu.html ) features, among other entrees, excellent bison steaks. One of the premier, albeit expensive, restaurants in the downtown area is The Palm, located at 140 5th Avenue South (see http://www.thepalm.com/Our-Menu/Dinner ).

Should you be a massage aficonado, Adagio's (http://www.adagiomassageco.com/) is an excellent facility; they have three locations and also provide outcall service to area hotels.

Work picks my hotel for me, have no say in that matter! Originally Posted by Lauren Summerhill

Bummer. Harsh conditions, indeed! Depending on how long you're there, it might be worth paying the difference. Nothing worse that a bad hotel to get your entire stay off on the wrong foot. Glad to hear it's still a top notch place. Gorgeous building and very good service when I was there.

The Blue Bird Cafe is a great place and go on songwriter nights ; you might be lucky and catch some of the hot upcoming songwriters of C&W.

http://www.bluebirdcafe.com/


This place is an institution; but it is small, intimate, and fun. A definite must IMO.

Opryland complex
The Opryland Hotel is open but the number of folks staying there was a lot fewer than normal. Looked all cleaned up. The Grand Ole Opry is open and doing shows. The Opry Mills mall is closed except Outdoor World(Bass Pro) which is open and looked to be doing very well. Not sure if the riverboat is running dinner cruises but it was at the dock. The river was running high the other week when I was there.

Downtown
Lots of tourist type stuff there in the area along Broadway and a couple of blocks away. Ryman Auditorium, Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum and a host of bars and honky tonks. Ice Hockey or Basketball at the arena and a few finer music places, as mentioned earlier, are around also. High dollar and low dollar plays can also be found. On the other side of downtown is Bicentennial Park that has a map of Tennessee that you can walk across(just south of the train trestle). The Farmers Market is next door and high atop the hill sits the state capital.

And of course the other options listed earlier. Music row is just east of Vanderbilt along 17th Ave. Centennial Park is on the west side.

Bluebird Cafe is a great rec.

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154 Second Avenue North
Nashville, TN 37201
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Always a fun time!

I love Nashville!!

Music row is fun!

Neely's BBQ off Rosa Parks Blvd is awesome!!!

maybe a picnic by the river

have fun!!!