About Nashville

When I worked for Eventbrite, I frequently had the opportunity to show coworkers from San Francisco or Mendoza around Nashville. I thought I would share some of my recommendations for visitors. Fair warning that these are biased towards places near the Eventbrite office or near my former house in East Nashville.

• BBQ at Peg Leg Porker (get the dry rub ribs) or Martin’s (try the brisket)
• Meat & 3 lunch at Arnolds
• Family-style southern dinner at Monell’s
• Hot Chicken anywhere, as long as the restarurant only serves hot chicken
• Ramen at Two Ten Jack
• Coffee or beer and board games at Bongo East / Game Point
• Kombucha or tea at High Garden
• Ice cream at Jeni’s
• Doughnuts at 5 Daughters
• Kolaches at Yeast Nashville
• Bluegrass at Station Inn
• Karaoke at Santa’s Pub
• Visiting one of our many breweries (Smith & Lentz and Bearded Iris top my list)
• Shopping at the Idea Hatchery or Fatherland Shoppes
• Watching the tourists on Broadway
• If you need to get some work done, camping out at Portland Brew

If you want to know what’s happening around town, pick up a copy of the Nashville Scene. If you’re specifically interested in tech events, check out cal.nashvl.org and consider joining NashDev on Slack.

Here is another good list of recommendations from the PyTennesse organizers, and here is one from my friends at The Bikeshed.