Family-style SouthernGermantown$$$$
Monell's
Pass-the-platter Southern meals at shared tables in a Germantown Victorian. Skillet fried chicken is the reason to go.
#2 in Meat & three + Southern#2 in Brunch + breakfast#4 in Late-night eats
What to get
- Skillet-fried chicken (it comes with every meal)
- Country breakfast: biscuits and gravy, country ham, fried apples, cheese grits
- Whatever the day's meats are (see orderByDay)
- Skillet fried chicken (served with every meal)
- Country breakfast: biscuits and gravy, country ham, fried apples, corn pudding
When to go
Shortest wait: Tue, Wed 9 am–11 am. Busiest: Sun around 11 am (up to 45 min wait). From Google's popular times.
Breakfast (weekdays 8–11 am) for the full country spread, or the Saturday-night Midnight Country Breakfast (11 pm–3 am), a locals' secret per Eater and Infatuation. Dinner is Tue–Sat only.
Insider tip
You'll share long tables with strangers and pass platters. Fixed prices per adult: breakfast $17.95–18.95, lunch $17.95–23.95, dinner $18.95–22.95, midnight breakfast $19; kids 4–12 at child prices, 3 and under free (plus 9.75% tax). The 1905 Victorian house and garden make a great photo stop before you eat (Eater).
Heads up
Communal seating isn't for a private date. One set price whether you eat a little or a lot.
Find it
- Phone
- (615) 248-4747
- Website
- monellstn.com/nashville
Recognition
Checked Oct. 1, 2026. Ratings are a snapshot from Google and Yelp; ranks are ours (how we rank). Something out of date? Tell us.
Eat & Drink
More in Meat & three + Southern
-
#1Meat & three · SoBro
Arnold's Country Kitchen
A cafeteria-line meat-and-three with roast beef carved daily and a 2009 James Beard America's Classics award. Weekday lunch, plus Saturday brunch.
-
#3Biscuits + country breakfast · Bellevue
Loveless Cafe
Biscuits and preserves at an old roadside motel on Highway 100, turning 75 this year.
-
#4Southern · Salemtown
Big Al's Deli
Breakfast and plate lunches in a Salemtown house, with Al Anderson's specials on the blackboard. Get the spicy shrimp and grits.
-
#5Southern · North Nashville
Swett's Restaurant
Soul food on a cafeteria line, family-run since 1954: fried chicken, squash casserole and peach cobbler under a wall of famous faces.
-
#61950s diner and meat-and-three · The Nations
Wendell Smith's Restaurant
A third-generation family diner in The Nations since 1952. Breakfast from 6 AM, fried chicken on Tuesdays and Saturdays.
-
#7Cinderblock meat-and-three · The Nations
Centennial Cafe
Shatteringly crispy fried chicken and plates under $10 at a cinderblock meat-and-three in The Nations.
The NashvilleTN Insider · 10K+ readers
The best of Nashville, in your inbox.
The shows worth buying tickets for, what just opened, where happy hour is good right now, the weekend plan, and a heads-up before we go live.