Bastion
We love Bastion’s multifaceted approach to dining: The local favorite with a Michelin star has a casual cocktail bar that is open to the public, in addition to a 24-seat fine-dining restaurant with reservations required.
The Catbird Seat
Recent Michelin star recipient The Catbird Seat perches at the pinnacle of memorable upscale dining in Nashville. The food is avant-garde yet delicious, and the kitchen has enhanced the résumés of many brilliant chefs.
Cafe Roze
For an understated chic atmosphere, East Nashville’s Cafe Roze is hard to beat. In 2025 it was highlighted as a Michelin-recommended eatery.
Junior
The latest creation from award-winning chef Philip Krajeck, Junior — in the site of a former Piggly Wiggly, if you can believe it — is one of Nashville’s hottest new fine-dining destinations.
Locust
Chef Trevor Moran’s Japanese-influenced 12South outpost won Food & Wine’s award for Restaurant of the Year in 2022, and was awarded a Michelin star in 2025.
Peninsula
Chef-owner Jake Howell recently earned a coveted Michelin star for his work at East Nashville’s Peninsula, a fine-dining destination put on the map by Howell’s creative Spanish- and Portuguese-inspired dishes and a lineup of custom gin-and-tonics.
Sho Pizza Bar
Riverside Village’s Sho Pizza Bar is chef Sean Brock’s most recent restaurant project, and it’s one of our favorites yet. In addition to a 30-seat dining room, there’s a chef’s counter that offers a front-row seat of the action. Michelin awarded it a Bib Gourmand recommendation.
