Wake up Tennessee thread!!

I'm considering moving to Nashville. Can anyone provide some insight into how veg-friendly Nashville is?

Are there at least SOME veg*n restaurants?
Have people there ever heard the term "vegan" or do they think you're an alien?

Hope someone can help!

Wake up Tennessee thread!!

I'm considering moving to Nashville. Can anyone provide some insight into how veg-friendly Nashville is?


Nashville is fairly veg*n UNfriendly. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 would be London, England--Nashville would be about a 2.


Are there at least SOME veg*n restaurants?

There are maybe 2 or 3 out of some 600 restaurants in Nashville.
If you mean restaurants offering some sort of veg*n selections, then there are maybe three or four dozen of these. See the following list (which is several years old):

http://web.archive.org/web/20050419073828/nashville.earthsave.org/dine-out.htm

Nashville is fairly veg*n UNfriendly. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 would be London, England--Nashville would be about a 2.

Thanks, Joe. I live in rural IL now and I refuse to move to another area like it, as far as cultural acceptance for the Veg*n lifestyle.

Thanks, Joe. I live in rural IL now and I refuse to move to another area like it, as far as cultural acceptance for the Veg*n lifestyle.

Wow, well I live in Nashville and I can vouch for the fact that it is certainly not "rural" as far as its acceptance of vegetarianism! At least 5 of my friends are veg*n, and none of them are opposed to it. I can find at least one dish at almost any restaurant I go to, and by "dish" i don't mean iceberg-lettuce-with-a-tomato-slice-on-top. Nashville is really growing these days and it's a really great place. I love it. As far as restaurants go, there's an all-vegetarian Indian place called Woodlands, as well as an all-vegetarian, kosher cafe called Grins. There are a lot of other restaurants with good veg options though, such as tin angel, fido, etc. I guess you're not considering moving here any more, but I just wanted to defend it a bit! It's my home! :)

Nashville is fairly veg*n UNfriendly. On a scale of 1 to 10, where 10 would be London, England--Nashville would be about a 2.

There are maybe 2 or 3 out of some 600 restaurants in Nashville.
If you mean restaurants offering some sort of veg*n selections, then there are maybe three or four dozen of these.

that's pretty amazing for how popular Nashville is, it seems like a busy place the last time I went and that's kind of amazing because here in Knoxville, Downtown there's at least 4 or 5 vegetarian/vegan aimed restaurants. when I say 'aimed' I do mean that the menu is at least half veg if not more.
unless you're talking about a completely vegetarian restaurant..

i think nashville does okay, considering...i survived being vegan there for years and years at least...

i should have posted this BEFORE i went to pigeon forge/gatlinburg.... i had to break my veganism when i visited last week and go "plain old vegetarian." it made me sad that i couldnt stick to it while on vacation. does anyone i TN have any good places to eat for the next time im around the gatlinburg/p forge area?

downtown Chattanooga, TN. Love it.

downtown Chattanooga, TN. Love it.

I just moved to Chatt! I'm kind of disappointed the only vegan restaurant is open for 2 or so hours a day... But I definitely like the city!

but you got GreenLife there! yeah :) and they just opened a bigger store. have you been?

i LOVE that store. one of my good friends is a manager there too.

Chatty's a good town. come a long ways in the past few years. fun stuff to do around there also :)

Yess, I definitely am already obsessed with Greenlife! I was shocked when I came here that Chattanooga has a store like that!

I am just a little disappointed that they don't sell a few of my favorite foods (soyrizo, better-than-cream cheese and sour cream!) but at least now I can stop buying most of my products over the Internet. I've actually never seen the old store - by the time I moved here (very recently) the new one had already taken over.

I still haven't gotten around to checking out the city for fun stuff to do, but I'm planning on it... I'm really hoping there may be a decent veg*an crowd here! (so far all I've seen are the basic health nuts) :)

I live in a suburb of Knoxville, but come August I'll be a UT Vol :)

Now that each state has its own forum I'll be closing the state threads. Please continue any discussion by starting a new thread in this forum. Thanks!