Nashville has 10 cocktail bars in the BarMagazine directory, and Eleven11 leads the pack. The 5 below are the ones we would send you to first. This guide covers the cocktail bars specifically; the full Nashville picture, all 10 bars of it, lives on the city page. Each listing is verified, with the address, opening hours and what to order.
Eleven11 describes itself as a cocktail bar, discotheque and restaurant under one roof on Dickerson Pike in Nashville. The bar runs later than the kitchen, reservations are handled online, and parking is validated inside.
White Limozeen is the rooftop bar and restaurant on the twelfth floor of the Graduate hotel in Midtown Nashville, with views over the city and a menu that gives Southern comfort food a French turn. It is home to the Governor's Pool, with poolside cocktails and cabana reservations in season, and is twenty-one and over after nine.
The Fox Bar & Cocktail Club sits on Gallatin Pike in East Nashville, a few doors from Tiger Bar on the same stretch, and serves its full menu across every hour it is open.
Tiger Bar describes itself as a 1930s sideshow inspired gin joint, on the East Nashville stretch of Gallatin Pike. It opens three nights a week and is strictly over 21.
Attaboy Nashville is the Nashville outpost of the New York original on Eldridge Street, and runs on the same terms: no reservations, first come and first served, and parties of six and under only. It opens seven nights a week, from 5pm Sunday through Thursday and from 4pm on Friday and Saturday.
These are the cocktail bars specifically. The full Nashville guide ranks the best bars of every style, and the directory lists all 10 with a map and filters.
Best bars in Nashville