# Food & Dining search demand in Nashville THE SEARCH LEDGER · NASHVILLE, TENNESSEE · FOOD & DINING Every month Nashville types 2,201,810 food & dining searches into Google. This is the public record of what those searches are, what they cost, and who currently answers them. BY [SEO BANDWAGON](https://seobandwagon.com/about) · UPDATED WEEKLY · COLLECTED SEP 8, 2026 · [HOW THIS PAGE IS MADE](https://seobandwagon.com/local-seo/nashville/food-dining#colophon) 891 KEYWORDS TRACKED Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Nashville metro, Sep 8, 2026 2,201,810 SEARCHES / MONTH Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Nashville metro, Sep 8, 2026 $1.7M MONTHLY AD VALUE Source: volume × CPC, computed $1.45 AVERAGE CPC Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Nashville metro, Sep 8, 2026 ## When Nashville searches for food & dining Relative search interest by month, indexed 0–100. The pink outline marks the peak. Interest runs highest in AUG and lowest in JAN. Search interest by month, indexed 0 to 100: January 69, February 72, March 94, April 83, May 94, June 92, July 92, August 100, September 87, October 99, November 85, December 81. Source: [Google Trends](https://trends.google.com/) relative interest for the Food & Dining category in Nashville — a 0–100 index, not a search count. One curve per category is the granularity available; it is not split per keyword. ## What Nashville pays per click for food & dining The 20 highest-volume of 891 tracked keywords, priced at what advertisers actually bid. The dearest click here is **“5 point pizza nashville”** at $2.49. | # | KEYWORD | VOL/MO | CPC | DIFFICULTY | INTENT | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | 1 | restaurants near me | 1,000,000 | $0.60 | 7 | transactional | | 2 | breakfast near me | 135,000 | $0.61 | 23 | transactional | | 3 | coffee shops near me | 90,500 | $0.50 | 0 | transactional | | 4 | pizza near me | 90,500 | $1.45 | 12 | transactional | | 5 | bars near me | 60,500 | $0.57 | 0 | transactional | | 6 | tootsie bar in nashville | 22,200 | $0.43 | 29 | commercial | | 7 | restaurants nashville | 22,200 | $0.94 | 28 | commercial | | 8 | loveless cafe nashville | 18,100 | $1.09 | 14 | commercial | | 9 | the loveless cafe nashville tn | 18,100 | $0.78 | | commercial | | 10 | nashville brunch | 14,800 | $0.92 | 21 | commercial | | 11 | east nashville restaurants | 14,800 | $0.90 | 14 | commercial | | 12 | best dining in nashville | 12,100 | $0.81 | 2 | commercial | | 13 | nashville food places | 12,100 | $0.75 | 3 | commercial | | 14 | italian restaurants nashville | 12,100 | $1.02 | 21 | commercial | | 15 | 5 point pizza nashville | 12,100 | $2.49 | 1 | commercial | | 16 | breakfast in nashville tn | 12,100 | $0.60 | 9 | commercial | | 17 | cafe roze nashville | 12,100 | $0.19 | 3 | commercial | | 18 | dozen bakery nashville | 12,100 | $0.57 | 7 | commercial | | 19 | midtown cafe nashville tn | 12,100 | $0.40 | 2 | commercial | | 20 | the pharmacy restaurant nashville | 12,100 | $0.61 | 8 | commercial | Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Nashville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Volume and CPC are [Google Ads](https://ads.google.com/home/tools/keyword-planner/) twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week. Difficulty is DataForSEO’s 0–100 score; blank where it has not been scored. ## Who owns the Nashville food & dining results Live position tracking for 2 of the tracked keywords in this vertical — who Google puts in the [map pack](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-pack), and who holds page one. restaurants near me 1,000,000/mo · $0.60 CPC · difficulty 7 MAP PACK - 1 Caesar’s Italian Restaurant & Pizza 3.8★ 1,100 - 2 Broadway Brewhouse Downtown 4.3★ 1,900 - 3 Naked Farmer 5★ 529 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 opentable.com - 2 nashville.eater.com - 3 ubereats.com - 4 seeingtennessee.com - 5 yelp.com pizza near me 90,500/mo · $1.45 CPC · difficulty 12 MAP PACK - 1 🍕🍺 Mr Pizza & Gyro & Beer 🍺🍕 4.6★ 412 - 2 Sicilian Pizza 3.9★ 1,800 - 3 Caesar’s Italian Restaurant & Pizza 3.8★ 1,100 ORGANIC TOP 5 - 1 pizzaperfectonline.com LOCAL - 2 tripadvisor.com - 3 locations.princestreetpizza.com LOCAL - 4 yelp.com - 5 locations.pizzahut.com LOCAL Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Nashville metro, Sep 8, 2026. LOCAL marks an organic domain that matches a business tracked in this metro; an unmarked domain is simply not one of them, which includes directories and firms we do not track. ## The food & dining businesses competing in Nashville The 12 most-reviewed businesses we track in this vertical, with the profile signals that put them where they are. | RANK | BUSINESS | RATING | REVIEWS | CATEGORY | WEBSITE | | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | | #1 | Another Broken Egg Cafe | 4.9 ★ | 15,515 | Brunch | YES | | #2 | Puckett's Restaurant | 4.4 ★ | 9,168 | Family-friendly | YES | | #3 | Margaritaville - Nashville | 4.2 ★ | 7,591 | American | YES | | #4 | The Finch | 4.9 ★ | 7,267 | American | YES | | #5 | Tootsies Orchid Lounge | 4.4 ★ | 7,229 | Live music bar | YES | | #6 | Assembly Food Hall | 4.7 ★ | 7,199 | Restaurant | YES | | #7 | Dierks Bentley's Whiskey Row - Nashville | 4.2 ★ | 5,686 | Restaurant | YES | | #8 | Slim & Husky's Pizza Beeria (North Nashville) | 4.6 ★ | 5,067 | Pizza | YES | | #9 | Hattie B's Hot Chicken - Nashville - Lower Broadway | 4.6 ★ | 4,993 | Chicken | YES | | #10 | Five Points Pizza East | 4.7 ★ | 4,855 | Pizza | YES | | #11 | Rippy's Honky Tonk | 4.2 ★ | 4,709 | Live music bar | YES | | #12 | The Stillery | 4.6 ★ | 4,538 | Restaurant | YES | Source: [Google Maps](https://www.google.com/maps) listings, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Nashville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Ranked by review count, which is a proxy for how established a listing is — not a ranking claim. ## Food & Dining brands Nashville searches by name Branded demand is the clearest read on who has built recall here — searches for a business by name, the volume nobody has to bid for. green hills grille nashville 9,900/mo dose coffee nashville 8,100/mo coffee in nashville 3,600/mo best coffee in nashville 2,900/mo 360 bistro nashville 2,900/mo martins barbecue nashville 2,400/mo rooftop nashville 1,600/mo 51st deli nashville 1,600/mo Source: [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Nashville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Brand searches identified from the tracked keyword set. ## What Nashville asks about food & dining People Also Ask questions collected verbatim from Nashville food & dining results — the literal wording Google is already surfacing. What are some must-eat restaurants in Nashville? Where to eat in Joelton, TN? Where can I find the best lunch in East Nashville? Where should I eat in Jackson, TN? What is the 2 hour rule for pizza? Where can I find the best pizza in Nashville? Who has the best pizza deals out right now? Who has the best pizza in Cleveland, Tennessee? Source: Google People Also Ask, [DataForSEO](https://dataforseo.com/), Nashville metro, Sep 8, 2026. Questions are reproduced as collected; we do not answer them here. ## Rank for these searches Everything above is the market. If you want to be in it, start with where you stand today. [SCAN YOUR SITE FREE](https://seobandwagon.com/#scan) [Restaurant SEO](https://seobandwagon.com/restaurant-seo) ## More Nashville search data Every other vertical we track in this metro, with its monthly search demand. 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Keyword volume and cost-per-click come from Google Ads via DataForSEO and are twelve-month averages, so neither moves week to week — a weekly delta on either would measure the averaging window, not the market. Map-pack and organic positions are a live SERP read taken Sep 8, 2026. Sections with no data are omitted rather than filled. Nashville, Tennessee · Food & Dining · 891 keywords · collected Sep 8, 2026 Collected and published by [SEO Bandwagon](https://seobandwagon.com/about), tracking [local search](https://seobandwagon.com/seo-glossary#local-search) since 2010. These 891 food & dining keywords come from the same weekly sweep as [Google Business Profile Benchmarks](https://seobandwagon.com/research/gbp-benchmarks), whose method and verification are published in full. 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