Tin Roof Broadway
316 BroadwayIt took bout eight hours with a couple of stops but we made it to Nashville.
We were in town for the weekend for a figure skating competition. We had a pretty big group of teammates that also made the trip. The competition didn’t start for us until Friday but everyone drove in on Thursday. The majority just skipped school and work so we could get to town at a decent time and enjoy a little bit of the evening.
We made plans to meet a group downtown for dinner. For a lot of the group, it was the first time going to Nashville and everyone wanted the Nashville experience.
We had made reservations at Casa Rosa for 6 PM for a group of twelve. We wanted to get downtown a little early and walk around though. J and the kids were there last year but I haven’t been to Nashville since our honeymoon almost 17 years ago.
We got downtown around 5:00. We found a parking ramp then walked around for a bit. There was a Nashville Predators game that night so there were a lot of people walking around.
We went in to a couple of shops but by 5:30, we were kind of ready to just sit. Broadway is known for it’s honkey tonks and you can walk down the streets and hear any number of bands playing.
We decided to pop in to one of those honky tonks and grab a couple of drinks while we were waiting on the rest of our group for dinner.
We stopped in to Tin Roof Broadway. The live music joint is on Broadway/US-70 between 3rd and 4th Avenues in the neighborhood known as The District in Nashville. The last time I was in Nashville, this two story brick building was Hatch Show Print (according to Google Maps). It looks like it was converted into a two story boor with the “Smallest Rooftop in Nashville” in 2014. There are other Tin Roof venues around the country including one in Detroit.
The main level is the bar and live music area. The stage is actually set up in front of the windows which can open up to the street. There was a classic rock cover band playing when we walked in which I think is part of the reason we picked it. Living on a Prayer was the song everyone was singing along too as we stepped through the door. We’re not nearly as big of country music fans as we were last time we went to Nashville. I’ve hit the “new country sucks” age. To be fair, I don’t hate all of it….I just started to fade out during the Bro-Country era.
The bar runs along one side of the long, narrow building while tables and booth take up the rest of the space. The space is pretty dimly lit with old school Christmas lights strung from the ceiling.
The main decor is graffiti on the walls. It looks like they, or someone prior, plastered over the brick walls. That’s now chipping and people have taken to writing their names on the peeling plaster.
We squeezed our way to the back where there was a little more space. There are some pub tables spread out in this back area but we grabbed a booth. We were just sitting down for drinks and to listen to some good classic rock before heading out to dinner.
A waitress came over with menus not long after we sat down. The food menu actually looked really delicious but we already had dinner plans. We told the waitress we were just going to do drinks but we needed a minute because J wanted to look over the cocktail list.
It took a few minutes for a waitress to come back. When she did, J ordered the Smay. The drink is Strawberry Vodka, Peach Schnapps, sour mix, cranberry, and Sprite.
I didn’t really see anything on the beer menu that stuck out but they did have deals on the large cans of Yuengling. Not my favorite beer in the world but better than a Miller Lite.
The kids got a Sprite and a water.
The waitress asked if we wanted to keep a tab open or close out when she brought the drinks. We knew we were only going to do one because we needed to get to dinner so we closed it out. The cost for the drinks and a tip was right around $25.
We were just looking for a place to quickly grab a drink and listen to some music before dinner and Tin Roof checked both those boxes. If we didn’t have dinner plans, I probably would have suggested we just eat dinner there. The menu looked good. The atmosphere was fun even at 5:00 and even with the kids. I’m sure it gets a little rowdier at night when everything switches over to 21+.
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