Best Restaurants with a Fireplace in The Nations / Village West

The Optimist is a beautiful restaurant with delicious food. Our server, Gabriel, was attentive without being overbearing. The food was superb —we especially enjoyed the swordfish and mahi mahi.

My mother in law and I stopped in on a quiet Wednesday afternoon for lunch. Service was great. Got the half chicken with green beans and sweet corn pudding - and split the parm fries with my MIL. Chicken was good, green beans were awesome with this Asian garlic sauce on them and the fries super crispy and flavorful. Sweet corn pudding ended up being a corn muffin - not sweet at all, pretty bland. Would go again and try some other meals.

E-Roc was a great server! Very informative and I appreciated his recommendations! Food was a wonderful experience!

The staff were so amazing, (shout out to Megan W!!) they were so helpful with deciding on food and cocktails and were super warm and welcoming which helped us a lot as we had just arrived in Nashville. The food has different twists and the specials are great. The cocktails taste great and the vibe was lowkey and cute but still lovely enough for date night !

Everything we ordered was excellent. We shared the deviled eggs. My husband got the beef bordelaise and I got the red snapper both were cooked perfectly and the sauces for both were Devine. We finished with a crème brûlée which while good was the least impressive part of the meal.