Lounges in Nashville

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.