Nashville.
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12 places
Rooms you can walk into, ranked the way I would send you.
Key: what the badges mean
★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.
The whole list.
Every room saved here, by where it is. 12 of them.
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Arnold's runs the meat-and-three at lunch, Hattie B's fries the hot chicken, and Rolf and Daughters and the Catbird Seat book out weeks ahead. The Loveless Cafe sits out where TN-100 leaves town.
South to the whiskey counties3
Franklin holds a porch and a burger twenty miles down I-65. Keep going and the road reaches Uncle Nearest at Shelbyville and Prichard's at Kelso, where Tennessee makes its whiskey.