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



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2026 Bucket List

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

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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.

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Travel

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

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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

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Music

Whether you’re on the boat, at the beach, or stuck at work (boo), channel that summer feeling with thirteen of our music editor’s favorite tracks of the season, from across the South and beyond

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Food & Drink

Lokelani Alabanza channels childhood nostalgia and her forebears in her new cookbook

A river park in Nashville

Travel

A neighborhood-by-neighborhood guide to Music City’s green spaces, cultural hotspots, and culinary highlights

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Food & Drink

With its zany collection of vintage signs and plastic cartoon plates, the year-old outdoor sandwich shop feels like it’s been around forever

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Southern Style

Old frames from enviable dead-stock collections get a new, stylish life

A spread of ruffles and caviar dip

Recipe

The high and the low never tasted so good