As Nashville’s restaurant scene has been booming, we’ve seen chefs and concepts from all over the country pop up in Music City, from Brooklyn and Los Angeles to Chicago to Maine.
Worth noting: More and more lately, too, former Charleston residents are getting big tastes of home here in Nashville.
Charleston-to-Nashville restaurants
HUSK
Among the first major Charleston players to make Nashville moves: well-known chef Sean Brock, who opened a sister location of his celebrated Charleston restaurant Husk here in 2013. Husk Nashville quickly became a rising star — GQ critic Alan Richman, who panned the original Husk, heaped praise on our location in a review titled “In Nashville, Husk is Reborn.” Brock ended up liking it here so much, he moved here, too.
BUTCHER & BEE
Brock was followed in 2015 by Butcher & Bee, whose East Nashville stop opened in December of that year. They’re serving a mix of small plates with big flavor, and they quickly earned praise here for their “superb food in a lively atmosphere.”
OAK STEAKHOUSE NASHVILLE
This year, the Charleston influx rolls on — in June, Oak Steakhouse Nashville opened next to the Westin Hotel, at 801 Clark Place, with upscale steakhouse fare from filets to crab legs. (Our location joins other Oaks in Atlanta and Charlotte.)
CAVIAR & BANANAS
Last week, restaurant and market Caviar & Bananas — launched in Charleston in 2008 — opened a Nashville location at 2031 Broadway in Midtown. (Menu options pictured above.) This one’s the largest Caviar & Bananas to date, and the first to open outside of South Carolina.
They say three makes a trend, and if we’re in the middle of a Charleston food invasion, it’s hard to complain.
Charleston-style homes are on the rise too
Alongside Charleston’s culinary influence, it feels like the city’s architecture is starting to rise up in Nashville, too.
As developers respond to Nashville’s growth by increasing density, the Charleston-style home — with its narrow and tall footprint and stylish stacked piazzas — seems to be popping up all around town.
Below, a few homes on the market now that sure seem to take influence from Charleston architecture:
Charlotte Park
508 B Eastboro Drive
Nashville, TN 37209
$349,900
The Nations
5517 Kentucky Ave
Nashville, TN 37209
$424,900
East Nashville
267 A Riverside Dr
Nashville, TN 37206
$540,000
Shelby Hills/East Nashville
805 S 19Th St
Nashville, TN 37206
$799,900
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