Husk

Husk Nashville opened on 23 May 2013 at 37 Rutledge Street, in a refurbished 1880s house in the quiet Rutledge Hill pocket near downtown that was once the home of a nineteenth-century Nashville mayor. It arrived as the second Husk, following chef Sean Brock's Charleston original, and built its reputation on hyper-regional Southern cooking sourced from named farms. Brock's involvement is now historical rather than current — he is not listed anywhere on the restaurant's own site — and the kitchen has passed through seven executive chefs, most recently in August 2026 when Ben Norton left for Los Angeles and Bryan O'Kelly, previously his colleague, was promoted into the role. The current supper menu runs Alabama shrimp with sungold tomato and hoja santa, Murder Point oysters with kimchi and cucumber, pimento cheese with benne seed wafers, Benton's country ham with peach and tarragon, shrimp and grits with green gumbo and okra, and a dry-aged Bear Creek ribeye, with buttermilk cheddar biscuits alongside. A carriage house behind the restaurant, The Stables at Husk, handles private dining.

The drinks book carries a properly built section headed "Spirit-Free", and its range is wider than most Southern restaurants of this standing manage. Faux-Spresso ($14) is the most ambitious, combining Pathfinder with coffee from local roaster Crema, cardamom and a salted whip, and it is priced level with the cocktails rather than beneath them. Free Spirit ($10) uses Lyre's Apéritif with a pomegranate-rosemary shrub and soda. Two house-made drinks anchor the cheaper end at $7 each: the Husk Lemonade, cut with shiso, jalapeño and sea salt rather than served plain, and the T & T, a thyme-honey shrub with tonic and lemon. Casamara's Alta amaro-style soft drink is $8. Below those the list leans into Southern soda properly — Devil's Foot ginger beer, Abita root beer, Cheerwine, Mexican Coke and Sprite — which suits the cooking better than an imported tonic would. Non-alcoholic beer is Sierra Nevada's Trail Pass IPA at $9, and the wine list carries its own non-alcoholic heading with Leitz sparkling rosé from the Mosel at $15 a glass. Dinner runs from 5pm nightly with weekend brunch from 10am; reservations are through Resy.