Avo

Avo is a fully plant-based restaurant at 4 City Blvd, Suite 104, tucked beneath the Element hotel in the OneC1ty development on the West End edge of Nashville. It has been trading for about a decade — the restaurant now markets ten years of plant-based cooking — and is run by owner Annie Choo. The kitchen is entirely vegan and leans seasonal and largely gluten-free, working through a menu of kale Caesar, fried cauliflower, nachos, a lentil-walnut burger, penne pesto primavera and a cauliflower steak, with a fried hash brown sandwich and cornbread pancakes on the daytime side. It serves Tuesday through Saturday 11am to 9pm and Sunday 11am to 8pm, closed Mondays. Parking is the one piece of local knowledge worth having in advance: the restaurant recommends the outdoor lot behind the shipping containers, which is free for two hours but requires registering the car by QR code on arrival.

What distinguishes Avo from most restaurants with a mocktail or two is that the bar itself is fully vegan alongside the kitchen — the same standard applied to drinks as to food, which rules out the animal-derived fining agents, honey syrups and egg-white foams that quietly appear in a lot of cocktail and mocktail programmes. That makes it a genuinely straightforward room for anyone who is both avoiding alcohol and eating plant-based, a combination that usually means interrogating a server. The drinks menu, now published in full on the restaurant's own site, carries a headed Zero Proof section priced at $8 to $11: a Cucumber Ginger Nojito of cucumber, mint, lime, NA ginger liqueur and soda; an NA Aperol Spritz built on Mionetto's alcohol-free aperitivo and prosecco with an orange slice; Lime in the Coconut, with Alchemist coconut syrup, NA Giffard pineapple liqueur, lime and soda; and a Lemon Lavender sparkling lemonade. Under a Zero Proof Wine & Beer heading sit Mionetto NA prosecco at $11 and two $6 non-alcoholic beers, Wellbeing Brewing's Victory Wheat and Untitled Art's Juicy IPA — the Athletic Brewing beers listed here in 2025 have been replaced, and the earlier named mocktails (Lil Vamp, Apple Dance, I Love You So Matcha) are gone with them. One thing to know before you go: the same menu lists THC beverages alongside the zero-proof drinks, so anyone steering clear of intoxicants entirely should order from the Zero Proof section by name. What is dependable is the format: a vegan bar in a vegan restaurant, where a non-alcoholic order is ordinary rather than a special request.