Tennessee

Some restaurants hide in plain sight, and this one sits in a modest strip mall in Franklin, Tennessee.…

By Caleb Whitaker · Oct 1

Some of the best meals in Tennessee come from buildings that barely look like restaurants from the road.…

By Caleb Whitaker · Oct 1

Some families plan road trips around museums or ballparks. Others plan them around a buffet line and a…

By Caleb Whitaker · Oct 1

Tennessee is famous for biscuits, but a good bagel can be harder to track down. The shops on…

By Caleb Whitaker · Oct 1

Some restaurants chase trends every few years. Others find a good thing and hold on tight for decades.…

By Caleb Whitaker · Oct 1

Tennessee has plenty of places to grab a cone, but only a few still come with jukeboxes, neon…

By Caleb Whitaker · Oct 1

Every city has one lunch spot that locals quietly treat as the standard, and in Nashville that spot…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 30

Some restaurants brag about a secret recipe. One spot in Memphis brags about its cooking grease, and it…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 30

In Gatlinburg, Tennessee, there is a breakfast tradition older than most of the souvenir shops on the main…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 30

Some of the biggest country hits ever recorded started with one person, one guitar and a blank page.…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 30

Nashville’s most famous dish has a surprisingly personal origin story, and it involves a late night, an upset…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 30

Chattanooga has a spot that people keep calling a beloved Southern kitchen, yet the kitchen in question does…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 30

Nashville loves a shiny new opening, but one of its most dependable burger stops was already serving neighbors…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 29

Some restaurants hide dessert at the bottom of the menu, but the best Tennessee diners put the sweets…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 29

Late-night breakfast fans, here is a small plot twist: the most famous Hermitage near Nashville closes its gates…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 29

Some lunch spots never bothered to change, and that is exactly why people keep coming back. In downtown…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 29

Johnson City has plenty of places to grab a meal, but only one of them keeps a vintage…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 29

Chess pie is one of the South’s simplest desserts, usually just eggs, butter, and sugar in a flaky…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 29

Some of the best meals in Tennessee happen at the end of a two-lane road, and plenty of…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 28

Tennessee has plenty of fancy restaurants, but some of the best meals in the state still come out…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 28

Some of the best pancakes in Tennessee get ordered at 4 in the afternoon, and nobody at the…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 28

Some Nashville restaurants chase every new trend, but one spot on the city’s north side has spent about…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 28

Some Memphis breakfasts come with more than a hundred years of history attached. On a downtown street, one…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 28

Gatlinburg has plenty of places to eat breakfast, yet one log building keeps drawing a line that can…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 28

Some sandwiches are just lunch, and some are family traditions that get passed down like old photo albums.…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 27

Chain pizza is easy to find off any Tennessee interstate, but the Cumberland Plateau still has small-town pizza…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 27

Some of the best fried chicken in Tennessee isn’t served at a sit-down restaurant with cloth napkins, but…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 27

Nashville has a breakfast spot where nobody gets a private table, and nobody seems to mind. A party…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 27

Some Memphis hangouts get polished up, rebranded, and forgotten, but one old building on South Main Street has…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 27

Plenty of restaurants chase trends, but one Knoxville, Tennessee, favorite has spent decades doing the opposite, and locals…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 27

The Great Smoky Mountains pull in hikers, scenic drivers, and wildlife watchers all year, and every one of…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 26

Some roadside stops blend into the scenery, while others hang on to a 1959 attitude no matter how…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 26

Somewhere in Chattanooga, a round table is spinning, and it has been spinning for longer than many of…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 26

Some Memphis lunch habits are simple: find a table, order the chicken, and repeat for years. Downtown, there…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 26

Some restaurants chase a new trend every season, and some just keep the griddle going. In downtown Knoxville,…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 26

Some of the best lunches in Tennessee are not served in restaurants at all. They come from the…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 26

A good hamburger steak does not need a fancy name, a long menu description, or a big-city address.…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 25

Fried bologna might be the most honest sandwich in Tennessee, since it is just a thick slice of…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 25

Some of the best food in Tennessee comes wrapped in wax paper and costs less than a fancy…

By Caleb Whitaker · Sep 25