Best Meat-and-Three

Photo: Eric England

Runner-up: Monell’s

Third Place: Wendell Smith’s Restaurant

More Best of Nashville wins: Arnold’s Country Kitchen also took Best Meat-and-Three in the Readers' Poll in 2026, 2025, 2024, 2022, 2021 and 2020. In our Writers’ Choice they’ve been named Best Steak Dinner for Less Than $25 (2022), Best Dinner Addition (Arnold’s After Dark, 2021) and Best Place to Order the Special (2020).