Must-see nightlife in East Nashville

  • High Garden Tea

    East Nashville

    With shelves stacked high with jar upon jar of exotically named teas and spices, this bewitching shop would look quite at home between the wand store and…

  • Attaboy

    East Nashville

    New York City's famed Attaboy is one of the bars credited with the entire modern craft-cocktail movement – its cocktails are accorded near mythological…

  • Barista Parlor

    East Nashville

    An unrepentantly hipster coffee joint (coffee $3.50-6.50) housed inside a huge former transmission shop. Some of America's best beans are put through…

  • Urban Cowboy Public House

    East Nashville

    Set behind Nashville's hottest B&B (also bearing the Urban Cowboy name), this bar is hotter than the 16ft-tall double-sided outdoor fireplace and adjacent…

  • Bongo East

    East Nashville

    Thinker, writers and (web)surfers hunch over laptops in the cavernous interior where the coffee is house-roasted and sacked, and where rocker Robert Plant…

  • Southern Grist Brewing

    East Nashville

    This neighborhood pub slash brewery specializes in an ever-evolving line-up of experimental suds such as the Winter Sweet Tooth, a barley wine brewed with…

  • Post East

    East Nashville

    The cold coffee drinks are a refreshing pick-me-up at this java-and-juice shop, where eye-catching art hangs on the walls and climbs overhead – check out…

  • Smith & Lentz Brewing Company

    East Nashville

    This craft brewery has a friendly atmosphere and an excellent selection of ales, pilsners and IPAs – 22 taps in total (pints $5-7). The wide-open taproom…

  • Crying Wolf

    East Nashville

    Little Red Riding Hood and the three little pigs might feel nervous in this shadowy ode to all things lupine, from the stuffed wolves to the paintings of…

  • No 308

    East Nashville

    Cool kids gather at this unassuming East Nashville cocktail bar (cocktails $12-13) to knock back adult shots inspired by Beat novelists. Pick your poison…

  • Ugly Mugs Coffee & Tea

    East Nashville

    Ugly Mugs is an East Nashville home away from home. Join the locals in this low-key, friendly space for fantastic coffee – served in ugly mugs – made…

  • Village Pub

    East Nashville

    Nashville and Tennessee microbreweries, from Black Abbey to Yazoo, get lots of love at this easygoing bungalow of beer. Grab a seat on the patio and soak…

  • 3 Crow Bar

    East Nashville

    Garage-door-style windows roll open onto this truly divey cinder-block cavern with ample table and bar space in Five Points. The crowd is young and local,…

  • Red Door Saloon East

    East Nashville

    Red Christmas lights, Marilyn Monroe photos, beer signs on the ceiling, and John Cougar Mellencamp's Authority Song blaring from the speakers. Yep, there…

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