Typical Crowd : Families can eat downstairs, while young people can get their freak on upstairs. A black pickup truck hangs over the performer, just above Luke Bryan's name in bright white lights. This could be what his man cave looks like, actually. It's a great stage, set in a wide room that allows intimacy and easy access to drinks.
It's one or two steps better than Chick-Fil-A.Ĭheese Curds: They did the job of being cheese curds.Īmbiance: Once the music started playing on the main stage (about 7PM), the place filled up with tourists and became the kind of bar you hope to find when you come to Nashville. Nashville Hot Chicken Bites: Actual Nashville hot chicken is hard to find on Lower Broadway, and this appetizer didn't even try. A garlic aioli mixes well with the mustard seed flavor packed in the red dragon cheese. All three are packed the kind of punch you'd expect from an 8-year-old girl, which is not atypical of the Broadway experience.
The Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (vodka and cranberry with grapefruit juice and a lemon wedge) come in a plastic bar cup. The Strip It Down and Country Girl are served in tall glasses with short straws. Luke's bar offers several named after his hit songs, and they range in price from $12 to $15. We started downstairs, with food and drinks in the restaurant, and the reviews from our group were mixed.ĭrinks: We leaned into signature food and drink items at each stop. We started at Luke's 32 Bridge (301 Broadway):īryan's newly-opened restaurant and bar filled a vacancy left by a boot shop, but underwent a total redesign to offer a lower-level family restaurant, a main level bar and stage and two rooftop levels that feature an impressive sports bar and sushi bar. It was late, after all - and hot - and we needed another drink. If successful, he'd pocket $100, but the younger, more chiseled man that tried before him barely lasted a minute, making it clear the old-timer would need to survive on grit. Sadly our crew got pushed down the street by a swell of inebriated travelers before we could learn his fate.
At one point shortly after 10PM, a crowd gathered as a scruffy, beer-bellied man looking north of 50 dried his hands to hang from a pull-up bar for 120 seconds. Hopeless singer-songwriters perch themselves on corners, singing covers through tinny amplifiers as their dogs nap alongside them. A teenage drummer's bucket quickly fills with $1 and $5 bills on a hot Saturday. Nashville's under-appreciated sideshow is the carnival-like cast of characters that line Lower Broadway and adjoining streets, hoping for a handout or a tip. A short walk to the first meant crossing no fewer than seven bachelorette parties, two pedal taverns and a carnival of street performers. Too many signature drinks, bachelorette parties and "Wagon Wheel" covers, okay?)īelow is an honest review of all six bars meant to help you make smart decisions during your next trip to Nashville. ( John Rich's Redneck Riviera is near the river on Broadway, but we didn't get there this time. Across Broadway you'll find Blake Shelton's Ole Red, and around the corner is Florida Georgia Line's FGL House. Walk two blocks from there to dive into Alan Jackson's AJ's Good Time Bar, and across the street from that, find Dierks Bentley's Whiskey Row - perhaps the most surprising stop on this self-guided tour. Luke Bryan and Jason Aldean are the most recent country stars to open bar/restaurants/venues, and appropriately for the two friends, the establishments are adjoined.
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