Nashville restaurants and bars serving food are open at 50% capacity while following these guidelines. Social distancing and mask usage are required unless seated at a table. Restaurants that serve alcohol must close at 10:00pm. Live music is permitted with a barrier between performers and audience! If you’re ready to venture out or visit Nashville, here’s a list of bars now open in Nashville. Please call ahead to confirm current hours, as they are likely to change or be limited.
More bars will be added as they open. Submit bars now open here!
White Limozeen
Neighborhood: West End
6th & Peabody
- Neighborhood: SoBro
Mother’s Ruin
- Neighborhood: Germantown
L.A. Jackson
- Neighborhood: The Gulch
Gertie’s Bar
- Neighborhood: The Gulch
L27 Rooftop Lounge
- Neighborhood: SoBro
The Hampton Social
- Neighborhood: SoBro
Headquarters Beercade
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Rippy’s
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Pinewood Social
- Neighborhood: SoBro
Bobby’s Rooftop Lounge
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Bourbon Steak
- Neighborhood: SoBro
Ole Red
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Margaritaville
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Rock Bottom
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Sinema
- Neighborhood: Melrose
B1281
- Neighborhood: Wedgewood-Houston
The Optimist
- Neighborhood: Germantown
Black Rabbit
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Skull’s Rainbow Room
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Ellington’s
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Stateside Kitchen
- Neighborhood: Downtown
The Stillery
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Rare Bird
- Neighborhood: Downtown
Fleet Street Pub
- Neighborhood: Downtown
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I see bars are open to serve food, but, is live music happening?
Limited live music (no more than two musicians) resumes on Monday, May 25, 2020!
We are supposed to be in Nashville July 9-13 will bars still be open and will they have live music?
Is live music still happening with the move back to phase 2?
Live music is now permitted in the revised “return to Phase Two”; dance floors remain closed though
Suppose to be July 19 for a week . How much live music is there
Where can I buy some shine to take home in downtown.
What phase will Nashville be in for July 31st weekend?
Planning a bachelor party for labor. Will everything still be open?
Which bars and Restaurants are open? Is there a list?
Was panning to visit the 31st-3rd.. Whats the scene like? Looks like some places are open, others not.. Masks required unless medically unable, (Unlawful to ask for proof or reason). Bars/Resturants with more then 50% of sales being food related are open? What about music?
We have reservations for August 14th coming there..should we cancel? What’s open?
We are planning to be there August 13-16th. Is anything opening back up by then?
We are scheduled to come to Nashville Aug 13-16 for my bachelorette party. Are the bars and live music scheduled to be open?
@Tayler and @Tina – many of the honky tonk bars on Broadway are shutdown until at least August 16, 2020. Many restaurants and bars are still open, but any establishments serving alcohol have to close by 10pm.
Girls weekend over Labor Day weekend. Are restaurants and bars limiting time of how long you can sit at a table. They are doing this in California. Will there be any live music?
@Heather – we haven’t heard of restaurants limiting time at tables yet. Live music is allowed, but a barrier has to be between performers and audience.