Every year we publish our ranking of Nashville's best restaurants and every year it continues to be one of our best selling issues.
Whether you have lived in Nashville for ten years or just ten days, we want you to use this issue as a resource whenever you find yourself asking the question
"where should we eat tonight"?
We have turned to two of Nashville's most prominent and trusted food authorities Erin Byers Murray and Nancy Vinneau to help create this list and we know you will not be disappointed. Meet the culinary aficionados behind Nashville Lifestyles' Best Restaurants 2019.
Meet the experts:
DANIELLE ATKINS
Erin Byers Murray has been the editor of Nashville Lifestyles since 2012.
She started her career in Boston, working for publications like Boston magazine and DailyCandy.com before taking a two-year break to get her hands dirty working on an oyster farm. The result was her first book Shucked: Life on a New England Oyster Farm.
Later, she co-authored a cookbook with Boston chef Jeremy Sewall called The New England Kitchen, which was nominated for a James Beard cookbook award in 2015. Her latest book, Grits: A Cultural and Culinary Journey Through the Southwas released in November 2018.
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Contributor Nancy Vienneau expresses her passion for food wearing many hats: chef, recovered caterer, food educator and activist, writer and cookbook author.
Food is at the heart of her stories and poetry. Her work appears in Alimentum: The Literature of Food, Relish Magazine, Nashville Lifestyles, Tennessee Craft Beer Magazine,Edible Nashville, her restaurant column for The Tennessean and her blog Good Food Matters.
In 2014, Harper Collins published her first cookbook, the Third Thursday Community Potluck Cookbook, based on a delectable monthly gathering she co-hosted with a local urban farmer.