As Nashville has boomed from a small music town into a music metropolis, the list of where to eat is ever expanding. Starting off, we in Nashville love our food trucks. Music venues like Marathon Music Works even have food trucks, like Jamaican-fueled Riddim-n-Spice, inside! East Nashville's truck-to-storefront happy ending, Mas Tacos Por Favor, is delicioso! My personal favorites are its black bean soup with queso fresco, fried avocado tacos, and cilantro-pineapple drink. For new-age Southern comfort food, The Southern Steak and Oyster is quickly turning into a Nashville classic. The chicken fried chicken makes grown men weep. If it's real home Southern cooking you're after, you must do Arnold's. Get the greens. Best greens ever. And the banana pudding. Oh. My. God.
Then, of course, there's the famous Nashville Hot Chicken (yup, we did it before KFC). If Prince's Hot Chicken Shack is too far of a drive, then burn your mouth at Bolton's Spicy Chicken. Cool your taste buds with handcrafted chocolate truffles at the bohemian-infused Tempered Cafe & Chocolate. Thursday through Saturday evenings, Tempered luxuriates in the Belle Époque era of Paris with the "La Fee Verte" (the green fairy) by serving its traditional Absinthe Drip & Craft Cocktails. If your senses are still screaming for more, then head to the speakeasy-themed Skull's Rainbow Room and take pleasure in attending Nashville's only burlesque venue.
