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Best Rooftop Restaurants in Nashville 2026
Rooftop & high-floor view rooms · Nashville · 6 tables ranked · Updated June 2026
Compiled by the Restaurants for Kings editorial team · Published June 15, 2026 · Updated June 15, 2026
Nashville built most of its rooftops for the party, not the plate. The Lower Broadway boom that filled the honky-tonks after 2015 stacked bars onto every new hotel, and the view became a backdrop for bachelorette weekends rather than dinner. A handful of kitchens worked against that current. The Westin opened L27 twenty-seven floors up in 2017 and treated the height as a dining room; the Gulch and SoBro followed with chefs rather than DJs. The six rooms below earn their place on the food as much as the skyline, from a French-leaning pink terrace named for Dolly Parton to a 2025 Mexican arrival. These are the Nashville rooftops worth booking for the meal.
1.The Twelve Thirty Club
Sam Fox and Justin Timberlake's supper-club rooftop has run above Lower Broadway since 2021. Book it for a night out.
The Twelve Thirty Club opened on September 28, 2021 at the Fifth + Broadway development, the Nashville debut of Arizona restaurateur Sam Fox in partnership with Justin Timberlake, who grew up outside the city. The name nods to the old Printers Alley supper clubs, and the second-floor Rooftop is the open-air counterpart to the formal Supper Club beside it. The kitchen sends short rib potstickers, buttermilk onion rings and burrata to the terrace, with most shared plates landing around twenty dollars, while the Supper Club next door runs steaks and sushi. The view takes in the Ryman and Lower Broadway without the honky-tonk crowds. Book the Rooftop for golden hour and move to the Supper Club after.
Book on Resy; reserve the Rooftop for golden hour, then move to the Supper Club.
2.White Limozeen
Chris Lewallen's pink Dolly Parton tribute plates biscuits and caviar over Midtown. Go for a playful dinner above the pool.
White Limozeen crowns the Graduate Hotel in Midtown, an indoor-outdoor pink rooftop with a wraparound bar and a wading pool, named in tribute to Dolly Parton's 1989 album. Chef de cuisine Chris Lewallen, who cooked at Bastion, Nicky's Coal Fired and Henley before taking the rooftop kitchen, runs a French-leaning party menu of Biscuits and Caviar, Trout Fritters with almondine dip and Chicken Liver Pie, with small plates that mostly sit in the teens and twenties. It is the rare Nashville rooftop where the food has a point of view rather than a logo. Go on a weeknight, sit near the pool, and order the caviar service.
Book on Resy; come on a weeknight and ask for a poolside table.
3.Denim
Shane Midnight's 21st-floor terrace at The Joseph runs a four-course Denim at Dusk for $95. Reserve it for a celebration.
Denim sits on the twenty-first floor of The Joseph, the Luxury Collection hotel that opened in SoBro in 2021 around an ambitious art collection. Executive chef Shane Midnight runs the seasonal rooftop from spring through fall, a shareable American menu of crudo, wood-grilled vegetables and steaks built to be passed around the terrace. The standing event is Denim at Dusk, a four-course tasting at ninety-five dollars timed to the sunset over the Cumberland. Downstairs, the same hotel houses Yolan, Tony Mantuano's Michelin-recognized Italian room, so the cooking pedigree in the building is real. Book a Friday Denim at Dusk and arrive before the light drops behind downtown.
Book on OpenTable; reserve Denim at Dusk and arrive before sunset.
4.L27 Rooftop Lounge
The Westin's 27th floor is Nashville's highest dining room, with an off-menu chef's four-course for $90. Book it for a view.
L27 took the roof of The Westin Nashville when the hotel opened in SoBro in 2017, and at twenty-seven stories it remains the highest full dining room in the city. The format is a full-service rooftop restaurant rather than a lounge with snacks: an Asian-inspired American menu of a lobster roll, the L27 Burger and shared plates, plus an off-menu, unscripted four-course chef's experience at ninety dollars. The terrace wraps the building for a near-360 look at downtown, the river and the stadium across it. It is the closest Nashville comes to the high-floor view rooms of bigger cities. Book a table about an hour before sunset and ask for the chef's menu.
Book on Tock; request a sunset table and the off-menu chef's four-course.
5.COA Rooftop
The Gulch's 2025 Mexican arrival spreads agave and live-fire across three terraces. Go for tacos and mezcal at golden hour.
COA opened atop the Canopy by Hilton in The Gulch in March 2025, a Tulum-inspired rooftop that spreads modern Mexican cooking across three terraces with a live agave garden between them. The kitchen leans on wood and a long list of mezcal and tequila, one of the largest agave selections in Tennessee, with tacos, ceviche and shared plates running through the teens and twenties. It is the newest serious rooftop in a neighborhood that, until recently, sent visitors to bars rather than kitchens. The indoor-outdoor design works in the shoulder seasons, when open terraces close elsewhere. Go at golden hour, start with a mezcal flight, and take the west-facing terrace.
Book on OpenTable; sit on the west terrace and open with a mezcal flight.
6.Sixty Vines
Sixty wines on tap and wood-fired pizza crown Assembly Food Hall above the Ryman. Go for a relaxed wine dinner.
Sixty Vines sits on the roof of Assembly Food Hall at Fifth + Broadway, which opened in 2021, a wine-country room built around a wine-on-tap system of about sixty labels poured from kegs rather than bottles. The kitchen runs wood-fired pizzas, fresh pastas, charcuterie and shareable plates priced through the teens and twenties, with a Rose Garden section of the terrace looking down Broadway toward the Ryman Auditorium. It is a chain rather than a one-off, but it is a genuine rooftop kitchen, not a bar with a view, and the wine program is deeper than most. Go for an unhurried dinner, order a flight off the tap wall, and take a Rose Garden table.
Book on OpenTable; order a tap-wall flight and ask for the Rose Garden.
Avoid for a rooftop dinner
Great view, wrong room for dinner
Rare Bird at the Noelle. The eighth-floor terrace at the Noelle is one of downtown's best-looking rooftops, but it runs as a cocktail bar with a short snack list rather than a kitchen. Go up for a drink, then book dinner at Makeready downstairs.
Lower Broadway's honky-tonk rooftops. The multi-story bars along Broadway, from the big country-star names to the party decks, stack rooftop levels onto live-music venues. They are built for the crowd and the cover band, not for dinner, so treat them as nightlife rather than a rooftop meal.
How to book a Nashville rooftop
Nashville rooftop dining splits cleanly between hotel restaurants that take reservations and party bars that do not, so book the kitchens and walk into the bars. The hardest seats are Denim at Dusk at The Joseph, which sells its four-course nights well ahead through the warm months, and White Limozeen on a weekend, when the pool deck fills with a younger crowd. L27 and the Twelve Thirty Club Rooftop both take tables on Tock and Resy and are easiest midweek. Most of these rooftops are seasonal or weather-dependent from spring through fall, so confirm the terrace is open before you go and keep an indoor fallback for a summer storm. Aim for a seating about an hour before sunset for the downtown light, and avoid Friday and Saturday nights downtown during a big event at Nissan Stadium or the Ryman, when every rooftop near Broadway turns into a wait.
Frequently asked
Which Nashville rooftop restaurant has the best food?
White Limozeen and Denim are the two strongest rooftop kitchens in Nashville. White Limozeen, atop the Graduate in Midtown, runs chef Chris Lewallen's French-leaning menu of Biscuits and Caviar and Trout Fritters, while Denim on the twenty-first floor of The Joseph serves chef Shane Midnight's shareable American plates and a four-course Denim at Dusk at ninety-five dollars. Both treat the rooftop as a dining room rather than a backdrop. Book either on a weeknight for the calmer service.
Which Nashville rooftop has the best view?
L27 Rooftop Lounge has the widest view in Nashville, twenty-seven floors up The Westin in SoBro, with a terrace that wraps the building toward downtown, the Cumberland River and Nissan Stadium. The Twelve Thirty Club Rooftop and Denim look down Lower Broadway and the river from lower floors with more intimacy. For the highest angle, reserve L27 about an hour before sunset and ask for an outside table on the river side.
What is the highest rooftop restaurant in Nashville?
L27 Rooftop Lounge, on the twenty-seventh floor of The Westin Nashville, is the highest full dining room in the city. It opened with the hotel in 2017 and runs as a reservation rooftop restaurant rather than a snack bar, with an Asian-inspired American menu and an off-menu chef's four-course at ninety dollars. The hotel bars along Broadway sit lower, so L27 holds the altitude record for a sit-down rooftop meal.
Are Nashville's rooftops open year-round?
Most Nashville rooftops are seasonal or weather-dependent, running open-air from spring through fall and closing the terrace in winter or during storms. Denim at The Joseph is explicitly a spring-to-fall rooftop, while COA in the Gulch and L27 at the Westin keep indoor-outdoor space that works in the shoulder months. Always confirm the terrace is open before a winter visit, and keep an indoor fallback for a summer thunderstorm.
Which Nashville rooftop is best for a group or a bachelorette?
White Limozeen and the Twelve Thirty Club Rooftop handle groups best. White Limozeen's pink pool deck atop the Graduate is built for a celebration and a photograph, while the Twelve Thirty Club pairs its rooftop with a Supper Club and a Honky Tonk under one roof for a full night. Both take reservations, which matters downtown on a weekend. For a quieter dinner instead, choose Denim or L27.
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