A dive bar

Travel

G&G’s Guide to Nashville


Dive deep into where to partake in the Music City’s delicious food and drink, music, and shopping scenes



A rendering of a hotel guest room

2026 Bucket List

Forty years of Dollywood, a Broadway show, and a hotel later, Parton is going strong at eighty

A portrait of a woman against a gallery wall

Food & Drink

Redemption Bar on Lower Broadway welcomes all with NA drinks and singer-songwriter performances. Plus: Get a recipe for McBryde’s alcohol-free Earl Grey Old-Fashioned.

Outside a honky tonk with a neon sign

Travel

Nashville’s greatest new honky-tonk is a seventy-five-year-old downtown landmark

Inside a lobby

Travel

New Orleans’s buzziest hotelier puts down roots in Music City

A blackberry cocktail

Recipe

A sense of offbeat fun informs Nashville’s Fancypants and its cast of playful drinks—including this perfect summer-to-fall sipper

Inside a boutique shop with Western accents

Arts & Culture

Cowboy boots, floor-to-ceiling jewelry cases, a customizable hat bar, and a real bar celebrate Texas and Tennessee

Grilled trout on a plate

Fork in the Road

Whether dishing up crispy onion rings, perfectly piped deviled eggs, or sliced-to-order prime rib, the growing restaurant group perfects simplicity

A portrait of Nate Bargartze in a ball pit

Arts & Culture

The hottest comic on earth is building more than just a Nashville hub of humor—he’s pulling a parade’s worth of funny people behind him

A man in a studio

Music

Six years after his death, a new biography examines the talent, charm, and heartbreak of the man behind the music

People on stage at the Grand Ole Opry

Music

Vince Gill, Bill Anderson, Ashley McBryde, long-serving employees, and more Opry insiders speak to a dozen-plus moments that cemented the institution as country music’s biggest stage

Food & Drink

The Michelin Guide canvassed six new states across the region for its selections, including a two-star designation for Emeril’s in New Orleans