If you stay at the Harpeth Hotel, you are steps away from some great antique/boutique shopping! Take a left out the hotel door and turn right when you see Main!
Don’t miss Winchester Antique Mall & Scarlett Scales Antiques across the street from the hotel!
Other spots to not miss within walking distance:
Whites Mercantile- great curation of local and national brands- including paper-goods by Matt's sister Bekah!
Grays on Main- best restaurant in Franklin for lunch & dinner
Biscuit Love- great breakfast!
Pucketts- southern style meat & three
55 South- another great dinner option
Red Pony- dinner & drinks
Frothy Monkey- fun coffee place
Juice Bar- if you need a little detox one am!
There’s an old factory, (called The Factory at Franklin) a mile or so away with some good restaurants, coffee, shopping too.
Leipers Fork:
15 minutes from downtown franklin is Leipers Fork (where we are getting married!) there’s a cute little strip of shops:
‘Country Boy’- great, greasy, breakfast.
1892- nicer fare
Serenite Maison- great antiques/collectibles, my friend Alex owns the place- tell her I sent ya.
David Arms Gallery- neat little shop showcasing an artists work as well as other great stuff.
Matt’s 12 South Hit List
Burger Up- staple neighborhood burger joint
Taqueria del Sol- oddly good tacos & really great queso
Ladybird Taco- really good breakfast tacos
Portland Brew- surprisingly good food- best iced coffee I’ve ever had
Franklin Juice- açaí bowls and honestly, one of the better cups of coffee in the ‘hood.
Frothy Monkey- probably not worth the wait, but I also prob won’t be able to talk you out of it
Mafioza's- its not the best pizza, but I still crave it. Still not sure how that works... (try the Brass Knuckles..buffalo chicken pizza!)
Not in 12th
Pinewood social- fancy bowling and good cocktails & brunch. Reserve bowling lanes EARLY if that’s something you wanna do
Proper Bagel- just as it sounds. Best bagels/bagel sandwiches in Nashville.
Baja burrito- OG chipotle style burrito place. Still the best in the biz.
More pizza (outside the hood')
Emmy Squared- the Colony is unreal.
Za- That Hipster Place in Brooklyn in the pie to die (for)
5 Points - I recommend adding on the Habenero Cream Sauce, but I do not take responsibility for what it does to your body the next day.
TAKE A HIKE!
Radnor Lake is a great easy stroll around a lake. (FYI: No jogging and no dogs)
Percy Warner Park- you can run here.