Nashville, Tennessee
The best coffee in Nashville
Ten Nashville cafés and roasters across East Nashville and Germantown.
10 places
Nashville's coffee splits cleanly by neighbourhood, which makes it easy to plan around. East Nashville is the deepest concentration and the most casual. Germantown is denser and more walkable, and better if you only have a morning.
Most of the city's serious roasting happens away from the tourist corridor, so a guide organised around Broadway would miss almost all of it.
1.Barista Parlor
East Nashville
Still part of every East Nashville coffee conversation, and the room that set the visual template a lot of the city followed.
2.Ugly Mugs
East Nashville
The unpretentious East Nashville answer — a neighbourhood café that people actually sit in for hours.
3.Dose Coffee & Tea
East Nashville
House-made syrups and a draft iced coffee programme that goes further than most.
Order: The Barcelona — draft iced coffee with soft salted whipped cream
4.Momento Specialty Coffee
East Nashville
Café and roaster in one, and one of the highest-rated coffee rooms in the city on public reviews.
5.Retrograde Coffee
East Nashville
A multi-roaster approach: Onyx Coffee Lab as the house pour plus deliberately off-the-beaten-path guest roasters. Locations in East Nashville, Germantown and West End.
6.Steadfast Coffee
Germantown
One of the reliable Germantown targets, and a better use of a morning than anything on the main strip.
7.Elegy Coffee
Germantown
The newer end of the Germantown cluster.
8.Neighborlily
Germantown
A flower, coffee and tea shop, which sounds like a gimmick and is not — the coffee is locally sourced and taken seriously.
Order: the Oaxacan mocha or the dulce de leche latte
9.Crema Coffee Roasters
One of the city's established roasters, and the name you will see bagged in other people's cafés.
10.Osa Coffee Roasters
A zero-waste roaster and café. The sustainability claim is structural rather than decorative.