Although best known for its music, Nashville is a city filled with many dining destinations. Some of the more popular types of local cuisine include the Hot Chicken, Hot Fish, Barbecue, and the "Meat and Three". Thanks, in part, to Nashville's foodie culture, the city was ranked as the 13th "snobbiest" city in America according to Travel + Leisure magazine.

Below is a quick-and-dirty analysis of restaurants' Yelp ratings in the Nashville, TN area. It is intended to inform AGA conference attendees of the best dining options this city has to offer.

Yelp users assign a rating based on a scale of 1 (worst) to 5 (best) Stars. The histogram below shows that the ratings distribution is skewed towards positive with a long negative tail and a median rating around 3.5 to 4 Stars.

To help you get around Nashville's hot spots, we used Uber's API to download and its pricing data. Our analysis includes cost estimates for traveling from the conference center to each point of interest. The estimates include the route distance (in miles) and approximate ride duration (in minutes).

Nashville hot chicken is a type of fried chicken that is a local specialty of Nashville, Tennessee, in the United States. In its typical preparation, it is a portion of breast, thigh, or wing that has been marinated in a water-based blend of seasoning, floured, fried, and finally sauced using a paste that has been spiced with cayenne pepper. It is served atop slices of white bread with pickle chips.

There are many restaurants in Nashville that serve a variant of the dish, and there is a city-wide festival and competition commemorating it. The popularity of hot chicken has spread beyond the Southern United States due to the influence of Nashville's music industry.

Don't leave Nashville without sampling this unique dish from one of the restaurants highlighted below.

Top 20 Restarants Serving Nashville Hot Chicken

We calculated restaurants rankings based on a combination of Yelp ratings, number of reviews and frequency of 'hot chicken' mentions in user reviews.

Best of Hot Chicken on the Map

• The color of the circles represents the rank from 1 (Dark Red) to 20 (Pink).
  
• The size of the circles indicates the frequency of 'hot chicken' mentions in Yelp reviews.

Nashville has a vibrant music and entertainment scene spanning a variety of genres. As the city's name itself is a metonym for the country music industry, many popular tourist sites involve country music. Numerous music clubs and honky-tonk bars can be found in downtown Nashville, especially the area encompassing Lower Broadway, Second Avenue, and Printer's Alley, which is often referred to as "the District".

Top Neighborhoods

Best Nashville Music Venues on the Map

• The color of the circles represents the venue's rank from 1 (Dark) to 20 (Light).
  
• The size of the circles indicates the number of Yelp reviews.

We performed the following steps in our analysis:

• Used the Yelp Search API to download rating information for all restaurants in the city of Nashville
• Excluded all Fast Food restaurants from the analysis
  
• Aggregated the data across Neighborhoods, Zip Codes, and Categories
  
• Computed average Yelp Ratings weighted by number of reviews
  
• Analysed the frequency of restaurant categories by rating level
• Created Tables, Charts, and Maps to visualize the results

The resulting data set contains information on

• 1,500 Restaurants
  
• 41 Zip Codes
  
• 27 Neighborhoods
  
• 128 unique Categories