Restaurants in Nashville, TN

Nashville shows 4,159 listed places, with 2,934 restaurants among them. Quick service accounts for 309, cafes for 351 and bars for 536. Bars (480), coffee shops and cafes (359) and Mexican (318) are the leading categories in this guide, based on listed places.

Nashville's 59.0 places per ten thousand residents are comfortably above the 41.8 median across all cities.

2,861 listings are independent; the chains that show up most are Subway (73), Starbucks (50), McDonald's (33) and Taco Bell (28).

In the Servestack Independent Restaurant Index, Nashville ranks #103 of 332 large US cities for the share of places that are independent.

Food in Nashville by cuisine

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Place data from the Overture Maps Foundation (overturemaps.org), which includes data from Meta, Microsoft and Foursquare, used under the CDLA Permissive 2.0 and Apache 2.0 licenses. Restaurants open, close and move; check with the restaurant before you go. Data refreshed 2026-10-11.