Most of Nashville’s ambitious kitchens close Sunday or Monday to rest the line, including counters like The Catbird Seat and chef rooms like Bastion. That leaves a smaller field on a Sunday night, weighted toward hotel dining and steakhouses that run seven days because the rooms upstairs are full.
Every restaurant below has been cross-checked against its current published hours and is open for Sunday service as of June 2026. We lead with the rooms that take Sunday most seriously: a downtown Italian flagship and a Michael Mina steakhouse, then the neighbourhood names worth the drive. Each entry lists the exact Sunday window and what to order when you get there.
Yolan
Italian · SoBro · around $90–150
Sunday hours: Dinner 5:00pm–9:30pm; brunch 7:00am–3:00pm.
Tony Mantuano, the James Beard winner who built Chicago’s Spiaggia, runs Nashville’s most serious Italian room inside The Joseph hotel at 403 4th Avenue South. The kitchen makes its pasta in-house, and the tortelli and the wood-grilled fish hold up against anything in town. Sunday is one of the easier nights to get the tasting menu, and the early-evening service means you can pair it with a quiet hotel-bar nightcap. This is the Sunday booking for a special occasion that does not want a crowd.
Bourbon Steak by Michael Mina
Steakhouse · SoBro · around $110–220
Sunday hours: 5:00pm–10:00pm.
Michael Mina’s butter-poached prime cuts anchor the dining room on the upper floor of the JW Marriott at 201 8th Avenue South. The duck-fat fries arrive free at the table, the bone-in ribeye is the order, and the wine list runs deep enough to justify a long Sunday. Because it sits inside a convention hotel, the kitchen keeps full Sunday hours when independent steakhouses dim. Book a banquette away from the bar if you want to talk business.
The Optimist
Coastal seafood · Germantown · around $55–100
Sunday hours: 5:00pm–10:00pm.
Ford Fry’s Atlanta seafood house landed in Germantown at 1400 Adams Street and quickly became the room locals use for an unhurried Sunday. The raw bar, the whole grilled fish and the lobster roll are the spine of the menu, and the patio bar is the best seat when the weather cooperates. Sunday dinner runs the full menu, not a cut-down version, which is rarer than it should be. Go for oysters and a martini if you want the short version.
Kayne Prime
Steakhouse · The Gulch · around $90–180
Sunday hours: 5:00pm–10:00pm.
Kayne Prime is the M Street group’s design-led steakhouse at 1103 McGavock Street in The Gulch, the one with the cotton-candy foie gras and a dry-aged programme to take seriously. The room is dark, loud enough for a celebration and quiet enough for a deal, and Sunday is when regulars come in for the wagyu flight without a Saturday wait. Reservations are wise; the bar is the walk-in fallback and closes at 11. Order the foie, then the bone-in filet.
Husk Nashville
Modern Southern · Rutledge Hill · around $55–100
Sunday hours: Dinner 5:00pm–10:00pm; brunch 10:00am–2:00pm.
Husk is the Southern restaurant Sean Brock opened in a Rutledge Hill Victorian at 37 Rutledge Street in 2013, and it still cooks the ingredient-first menu that made it a landmark. The cornbread in cast iron, the daily pork and the changing vegetable plates read the South seriously rather than as nostalgia. Sunday gives you both a late brunch and a full dinner, so it works for a long lunch or a proper meal. Ask what came in from the farms that week.
The Twelve Thirty Club
Supper club · Lower Broadway · around $70–130
Sunday hours: Supper Club 4:30pm–11:00pm.
The second-floor Supper Club at 550 Broadway is the grown-up room inside Justin Timberlake and Sam Fox’s multi-level Broadway venue, with live music and a menu that runs from prime steak to a tableside Caesar. It is the one place on Lower Broadway built for a real dinner rather than a bar crawl, and Sunday service runs the full supper-club menu with the band on. Take the elevator straight to two and skip the honky-tonk downstairs. Book ahead on a Sunday with an event in town.
Sunda New Asian
Southeast Asian · The Gulch · around $50–90
Sunday hours: 5:00pm–10:00pm.
Sunda is Billy Dec’s Chicago import at 592 12th Avenue South, a sushi-and-Southeast-Asian room that fills The Gulch with a younger, dressier crowd. The maki, the crispy rice and the Filipino-leaning plates make it a good group Sunday when half the table wants raw fish and half wants something cooked and spicy. It runs full dinner hours on Sunday, with a short weekend happy hour earlier in the afternoon. Order the spicy tuna crispy rice to start.
How Nashville dines on Sunday
Sunday in Nashville is a hotel-and-steakhouse night at the top end. The rooms that anchor a hotel, like Yolan and Bourbon Steak, keep full Sunday service because their occupancy does not take the day off, and the big steakhouses run seven days for the same reason. The independent tasting counters are the ones to call ahead about, because several close Sunday and Monday back to back.
Reservations still matter on a Sunday, especially when there is a show at Bridgestone Arena or a weekend convention downtown, which can fill Lower Broadway rooms like The Twelve Thirty Club. Tip the standard 20 percent; Tennessee does not fold service into the bill. Dress is smart-casual almost everywhere, with the steakhouses and Yolan being the rooms where a jacket never looks out of place.
If you want a long Sunday rather than a dinner, lead with brunch at Husk or Yolan, both of which open late morning, then move to a steakhouse or The Optimist for an early dinner. That brunch-to-dinner arc is the most Nashville way to spend a Sunday at the upper end of the market.
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