Now on Resy: Tailor, Nashville City Club, TKO, and More Local Favorites

There’s a chic dinner party ambience at this unique restaurant, where chef-owner Vivek Surti — who first gained acclaim with his private supper-club repasts — draws on his South Asian heritage and his long relations with top regional food producers to create vivid fixed-price meals you won’t forget.

An opulent private club opened more than 65 years ago, Nashville City Club has made its first floor open to the public and you’re going to want to head there. Dubbed The Study, this speakeasy-style hideaway will make you feel like one of the elite as you enjoy classic cocktails (come for Martini Fridays) and tapas-inspired bar bites.

When it’s brunch time in Music City, head for this cool, earth-toned dining room at Holston House, where chef Brian Lombard — born in L.A. but steeped in Southern food culture — makes mornings (and early afternoons) magical with specialties like fried green tomatoes with whipped feta and bacon jam, and a country ham croque madame.

Cortney and Gary Baron sell their fruit jams and pepper jellies nationwide, but only in Nashville can you dig into their morning-to-mid-afternoon café breakfasts, featuring tacos, Benedicts, pancakes, omelets, and more. Standout specialty: The PB&J chicken biscuit with, not peanut butter and jelly, but pimento cheese, bacon, and tomato jam.

You definitely want a table at this rollicking industrial-chic establishment on Gallatin Pike, where Chinese cuisine meets Southern fare, and they get on famously (think bourbon chicken fried rice). An added attraction: TKO was Nashville’s first no-tipping restaurant.

You’ll like this casual, comfortable Franklin favorite in the iconic 19th-century Gray’s Drug Co. building for its updated takes on classic Southern specialties (pimento cheese balls, fried chicken, shrimp and grits) plus live music three nights a week — and definitely save room for the epic dark chocolate Belgium brownie.

Whether you’re sitting in the elegant chandelier-hung dining room or on the dreamy terrace overlooking the city, you can’t go wrong with anything on chef Brian Lombard’s regionally sourced modern American menu. Good to remember: Brunch is served seven days a week.

This upscale-casual, art-filled establishment in Franklin from veteran chef Jose Serrato stands out brilliantly for its wide-ranging menu of appetizers and entrées, both traditional and inventive, and its choice of hand-cut signature steaks — look no further than a house specialty of two filets topped with crab and Cajun lobster butter sauce.

You’ll feel welcome the moment you walk into this East Nashville neighborhood hangout in a former 1930s-vintage dry goods store — and chef Hal Holden-Bache’s alluring menu, including Southern-flavored dishes, wood-oven pizzas, and an empanada of the night, will keep you coming back.

Come with friends to this glittery indoor-outdoor rooftop bar and restaurant atop the Thompson Nashville and order a gigantic cocktail to share (the vodka-based Devil in a New Dress serves four to eight) before moving on to the garlic Parmesan fries and the warm chocolate chip skillet cookie.