5 Best Restaurants in Nashville, Tennessee

Bella Napoli is one of the few authentic Neapolitan pizzerias in the city, and its brick-oven baked pizzas, decadent pasta dishes, and inexpensive happy hour will send you searching for this quaint eatery tucked in an alleyway on the back end of Edgehill Village. On warm nights, you can kick back on the romantically lit patio and enjoy good food, your favorite bottle of wine, and occasional live music.

A long-standing staple of Sylvan Park, Caffe Nonna serves Italian dinner in an inviting and intimate café setting. Pizzas are baked fresh in a brick oven, pasta is served with house-made sauces, and the wine list rounds out the experience.

Part grocery market, part travel agency, part restaurant, Coco’s Italian Market is dedicated to and passionate about all things Italian. Their house specialities remain proudly authentic to original Italian recipes that won't break the bank.

Authentic New York–style Italian food is the name of the game at Mangia Nashville, and they bring it to a new level with their reservation-only weekend Italian Feasts. Their dinner-only menu during the week features pizza, sandwiches, shareables, and sweets, while their prix fixe feast menu features multiple courses served family-style.

The inside of this ritzy Italian restaurant can be a bit of a maze (it's so much bigger on the inside than expected from its small entrance on a side street), but thankfully it just means there's plenty of seating inside for hungry diners to dive into rich, decadent homemade pastas and gnocchi.