Lounges

Knoxville, Tennessee

Watercolor Social Club is Knoxville's most artistic cocktail lounge — a Market Square establishment combining rotating art exhibitions with an exceptional craft cocktail program in a beautiful space that serves Knoxville's creative community. Its dual identity as art gallery and cocktail bar reflects Knoxville's growing reputation as one of the South's most unexpectedly vibrant arts cities.

Market Square, Knoxville, TN 37902

Memphis, Tennessee

Bar Sovereign is Memphis's most acclaimed craft cocktail lounge — a Cooper-Young neighborhood bar where exceptional bartenders create cocktails of genuine artistry in an intimate setting that serves Memphis's most sophisticated drinking community. The bar's commitment to quality ingredients, precise technique, and genuine hospitality has made it the benchmark for Memphis cocktail culture beyond the tourist experience of Beale Street.

Cooper-Young, Memphis, TN 38104

Memphis, Tennessee

Flying Saucer Draught Emporium in Memphis is one of the South's most celebrated beer bars — a downtown Memphis establishment with 230+ beers on tap and bottle, a rewards program for committed beer explorers, and the kind of convivial beer-hall atmosphere that makes it a gathering point for Memphis's craft beer community. Its Peabody Place location, adjacent to the FedExForum and the Peabody Hotel, positions it perfectly for pre- and post-event drinks.

130 Peabody Pl, Memphis, TN 38103

Nashville, Tennessee

Jimmy Kelly's is Nashville's most beloved old-school supper club and lounge — a Music Row institution since 1934 where Nashville's country music industry legends (Chet Atkins, Johnny Cash, Conway Twitty) have celebrated, grieved, and gathered for nearly 90 years. Its unchanged steakhouse supper club format and family ownership through four generations make it Nashville's most treasured piece of living entertainment history.

217 Louise Ave, Nashville, TN 37203

Nashville, Tennessee

Kayne Prime's bar and lounge is Nashville's most sophisticated steakhouse cocktail experience — a Music Row restaurant bar that serves Nashville's music industry, entertainment lawyers, and media professionals with exceptional whiskey, cocktails, and pre- and post-show dining adjacent to the recording studios and music industry offices that define Music Row. Its connection to the business of country music makes it one of Nashville's most interesting social environments.

1103 McGavock St, Nashville, TN 37203

Nashville, Tennessee

The Hermitage Hotel's Oak Bar is Nashville's most elegant hotel lounge — a 1910 Beaux Arts hotel bar serving cocktails beneath original coffered ceilings in Nashville's only AAA Five Diamond hotel. The hotel's connection to Tennessee's most significant political and cultural history (the 19th Amendment was certified at the Hermitage, making it the birthplace of American women's suffrage) makes every drink served here a brush with American history.

231 6th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37219

Nashville, Tennessee

Mercy Lounge is Nashville's most beloved independent music venue and bar — a 500-capacity Cannery Row venue (inside a converted molasses factory) that has presented emerging artists from Jack White to Kings of Leon to hundreds of touring bands who credit Mercy Lounge as their favorite Nashville venue. Its combination of intimate size, excellent sound, and consistent independent music booking makes it the essential Nashville venue for serious music fans beyond the Broadway tourist strip.

1 Cannery Row, Nashville, TN 37203

Nashville, Tennessee

Pinewood Social is Nashville's most versatile social venue — a massive Rutledge Hill complex combining a coffee bar, craft cocktail lounge, bowling lanes, pool, outdoor space, and restaurant into one seamless entertainment destination that operates from morning espresso to late-night cocktails. Its innovative all-day concept, beautiful industrial design, and diverse programming have made it one of Nashville's most photographed and visited entertainment destinations.

33 Peabody St, Nashville, TN 37210

Nashville, Tennessee

Skull's Rainbow Room is Nashville's most historic entertainment lounge — a Printer's Alley underground venue originally opened in the 1940s that presents burlesque shows, jazz, and live entertainment in a historic basement supper club setting. Printer's Alley's role as the original Nashville entertainment district during the prohibition era, before Lower Broadway's honky-tonk row emerged, gives Skull's an irreplaceable historical significance in Music City's entertainment narrative.

222 Printer's Alley, Nashville, TN 37201

Nashville, Tennessee

The 404 Hotel's intimate bar is Nashville's most exclusive lounge — a boutique hotel bar limited to 30 guests that serves craft cocktails with the precision of a Michelin-level restaurant. The bar's extraordinary cocktail program and its policy of limiting service to hotel guests and a small number of reservation guests create one of Nashville's most exclusive and memorable bar experiences.

404 12th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37203

Nashville, Tennessee

The Patterson House is Nashville's original craft cocktail bar — a speakeasy-style venue with prohibition-era décor, a short but exceptional drinks menu, and a house rule of no standing room to preserve the intimate atmosphere. The first serious cocktail bar in Nashville, it remains the benchmark for the city's growing bar scene.

1711 Division St 37203