Brunch in Nashville has become akin to a competitive sport: Every restaurant in town seems to have one, and they are forever upping the ante on both menus and offerings. Whether you’re looking for a casual brunch or the best breakfast on Broadway, these Nashville restaurants are bound to indulge your cravings.
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Best Brunch in Downtown Nashville
Some of the best brunches in downtown Nashville are at upscale properties. The Restaurant at W Nashville has a large crackling fireplace, and Café Yolan, offers homemade pastries and a decadent brunch menu, at The Joseph, a Luxury Collection Hotel, Nashville.
Or try art-deco inspired Stationary at The Union Station Nashville Yards, Autograph Collection — a train terminal-turned-hotel that also houses The Finch with its boozy brunch cocktails and filling dishes like short rib hash.
Just down the road along Broadway, the block-long mixed-use complex Fifth + Broadway is home to numerous brunch options like Sixty Vines, Boqueria and the Justin Timberlake–backed The Twelve Thirty Club for when you’re feeling a bit fancy.
A few downtown spots even offer a full Nashville brunch buffet, like Adele’s in the Gulch.
Bottomless Brunch in Nashville
The Farm House offers one of downtown Nashville’s OG brunches, with dishes like Pimento cheese beignets, chicken and waffles, huevos rancheros and other perfect-hangover-cure bites. It also raises the bar for other bottomless brunches in Nashville with all-you-can-drink mimosas, bloody marys and “beermosas” (within a two-hour limit, of course).
Germantown Café has held court in the Germantown neighborhood for decades, and its brunch spans a menu of veggie-forward options, from avocado toast on multigrain bread to indulgent delights like Cajun steak Benedict and shrimp and grits. Its bottomless brunch options are $.01 refills on any “topless” drinks (mimosas, frosés, bloody marys) within a two-hour window.
In the Wedgewood-Houston neighborhood, Mercado by Butchertown may specialize in tacos during the week, but on weekends its brunch menu goes all out with egg dishes, plus bottomless mimosas.
East Nashville Brunch
For the best breakfast in East Nashville, look no further than Butcher & Bee, which whips up creative brunch dishes like a coconut chia parfait, shakshuka and a family-style Middle Eastern breakfast spread for the table.
In Five Points and Lockeland Springs, Café Roze is a sleek, chic, Parisian-style café with a full bar and slimmed-down menu that includes brunch daily with egg sandwiches, savory oats, stout waffles and coconut yogurt bowls.
On Gallatin Pike, Hearts also serves brunch seven days a week with unique items like corn-and-zucchini fritters, best consumed on the back patio on warmer days. (Hearts has a second location in Nashville for those looking for brunch in 12 South.)
Another one of East Nashville’s most popular restaurants, Noko serves brunch in its signature Asian-inspired, wood-fired style. Many of its brunch items include seafood, like poke salad, salmon carpaccio and Hamachi crudo, but there are plenty of heartier dishes, like Japanese chicken and waffles or the Noko Moco fries drowning in brown gravy with a fried egg on top.
Off Dickerson Pike, the Black-owned Shugga Hi Chicken & Waffles offers a quintessential Southern breakfast (think carb-heavy) of waffles, eggs, biscuits and omelets.
Brunch in Nashville with Live Music
Visitors to downtown Nashville often seek the round-the-clock music experience the city is so widely known for. Suzy Wong’s Drag’n Brunch is a long-beloved stop on many Nashville weekend itinerary tours with its rowdy live entertainment and shareable cocktails, like a Pride Flight of six different mimosas or pitchers of Suzy’s Brunch Punch. Brunch is offered Thursday, Friday and Saturday at a flat fee, which includes appetizers for the table and one entrée apiece.
For a fancy brunch in downtown Nashville complete with a side of history, Skull’s Rainbow Room has been a Printers Alley mainstay since 1948. Throughout the week, it offers jazz and burlesque, and the last Sunday of each month dishes like Bananas Foster French Toast and Skull’s Prime Rib & Eggs are the supporting acts for its popular Gospel Brunch.
There are many places for brunch on Broadway with music, but Acme Feed & Seed always delivers — not only with live entertainment daily, but also with brunch on its first floor, second floor and rooftop, which offers views of the Cumberland River that bisects Nashville.
Best Casual Breakfast in Nashville
What if you’re in a rush and don’t want to commit to a two-hour brunch or simply want something friendlier on the wallet? In this town brimming with colleges, you’ll find several casual brunch spots. Fido Café is adjacent to the Vanderbilt campus and serves breakfast all day, every day. And you can grab a bagel sandwich to go at Proper Bagel on the Belmont campus.
In 12 South, the Butter Milk Ranch is a small-batch bakery that also offers full-service dining. The neighborhood even has a whimsical cereal bar where you can mix and match nostalgic favorites like Lucky Charms and Apple Jacks.
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