The Nashville table — what to order and where the locals point.
Hattie B's Hot Chicken
The hot chicken most visitors meet. Medium is hot; Shut the Cluck Up is a dare, not a flavour.
Prince's Hot Chicken Shack
Where hot chicken was invented in the 1930s. Still family-run, still the benchmark.
Arnold's Country Kitchen
Meat-and-three at its purest — pick a meat, three sides, cornbread, and eat with everyone in town.
Rolf and Daughters
Germantown, house pasta, and the restaurant that made Nashville a food city.
Robert's Western World
Fried bologna sandwich, cold Pabst and a live band from eleven in the morning. The last real honky-tonk on Broadway.