We had the opportunity to join friends for the weekend in Nashville, Tennessee. As always, we new it may be difficult to make sure our kids were where they needed to be, practice, games, birthday party’s…the typical weekend stuff, but with the Grandparents to the rescue, we are so glad we made it work.
We booked a few weeks before the trip and used our standard GOOGLE FLIGHTS. I was even emailed with a reimbursement to my google cash, when they saw the $7 price increase. I never signed up for it, but received it. Using Google Flights, I found a direct flight (on a brand new airplane, the A321neo, which basically means it quick, quiet and good for the environment), and had that new plane smell! Our tickets from Los Angeles on a Friday evening were about $60 each and we opted for the $40 upgrade to exit row. Check out this legroom!
We stayed at the Westin Nashville https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/bnawi-the-westin-nashville/overview/and our friends stayed right next door at the JW Marriott https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/bnajw-jw-marriott-nashville/overview/. Both were amazing, but we had previously stayed at the Westin and knew we loved their rooftop pool. Both hotels are walking distance to the famous Broadway honky tonk bars, the gulch for shopping or brunch and those famous Nashville wings everyone takes a picture with, we could see Nissan Stadium from our room and watched people gather in their seats for Morgan Wallen’s concert.
Here are some of the restaurants from the weekend:
DINNERS:
Sixty Vines https://www.sixtyvines.com/ Gorgeous Views, amazing wine list
Del Friscos Grille https://www.delfriscosgrille.com/location/del-friscos-grille-nashville-tn/
Lunch:
Hattie B’s Hot Chicken https://www.hattieb.com/
Assembly Food Hall is perfect for a group. There was live music, bars and so many amazing choices, we had tacos (it was cinco de mayo weekend, afterall) and they were amazing! https://www.assemblyfoodhall.com/
At Assembly food hall, we went to Velvet Taco, I had a Spicy Chicken Tikka taco which has chicken tenders, spicy tikka sauce, buttered cilantro basmati rice, raita crema, Thai basil, flour tortilla and it was amazing. We also shared a few other tacos and the nachos and everything was amazing!
https://www.assemblyfoodhall.com/vendor/velvet-taco/
Breakfast/Brunch:
Biscuit Love (Gulch) https://www.biscuitlove.com/biscuit-love-in-the-gulch
Stompin’ Grounds at the JW Marriott https://www.jwmarriottnashvilledining.com/stompin-grounds-restaurant
After time at Tootsies, Kid Rock Honky Tonk, Redneck Riviera, Wanna B’s Karaoke Bar, Rippys, Ole Red, the Westin Rooftop Pool felt amazing to allow our feet to recover from all of that walking in boots.
This trip was just a weekend, but if you have an additional day or two in Nashville I recommend going to the Opry. We were able to see Jelly Roll there a few years ago before he became so popular and that is where I began my love of his music, but more so of him as a person. For that trip, we stayed at the Opryland Resort https://www.marriott.com/en-us/hotels/bnago-gaylord-opryland-resort-and-convention-center/overview/ which was the perfect location, if you plan to visit The Grand Ol’ Opry https://www.opry.com/ It is good to know, they only have concerts on Tuesday and Thursday – Saturday.
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