Tennessee’s dining scene is growing quickly as In-N-Out, Wawa and Buc-ee’s target the state, but its strangest restaurants offer experiences no expanding chain could easily reproduce.
“Weird” is a compliment here. These restaurants combine dinner with magicians, mermaids, fantasy villages and a “hotel” that does not rent rooms.
House of Cards in Nashville
House of Cards hides underneath the Johnny Cash Museum in downtown Nashville.
Guests descend into a 10,000-square-foot underground space filled with antique playing cards, magical artifacts, dark wood and secretive passageways. Professional magicians perform close-up illusions at tables and in dedicated performance rooms throughout the evening…