Artists Colony Inn & Restaurant — Restaurant in Nashville

First off wanted to say the staff is wonderful. Service is tops, super friendly, quick, and everything is clean. Now for the reason I’m giving 3 stars. I’ve been going to this place easily since the early 1990s. It’s always been my favorite restaurant. I no longer live in Indiana but made a special trip to meet my parents here as it’s been a family tradition for many years. We always indulge in the turkey manhattan and I always got a side salad and raspberry tea. First off $15 for parking, ok I get it but I live in a big city and I am use to paying for parking but that sorta shocked me. It was $87 for 4 of us including tip. Again, not bad but the food was disappointing at that price. It just wasn’t that fresh beautiful food one use to get there. The side salad was bagged mixed greens, and the ingredients were those of “convenience foods”. Once upon a time their side salad was so beautiful and fresh. It was fresh chopped lettuce and there were seeds and strawberries in it. I miss that salad. They took the raspberry tea off the menu and my husband said the gravy on his manhattan tasted like the jarred gravy. I ordered the chicken salad, the lettuce leaf it was on had brown on the edge and was very wet. The chicken salad was just ok. It had way too much dressing for my taste but maybe some people like it that way. The pumpkin bread was ice cold. The restaurant was clean but it looks desperately tired. The furniture is in need of some referbishment. The rugs could use a professional cleaning. The plants look sad in the windows and the most disappointing thing was all their planters outside were empty with a few random weeds growing. The hanging basket hooks were empty and it makes the place look uncared for. They always had the most stunning flowers. 😔 I don’t know who owns this place now but the details that made this place special seemed to have been neglected. If it weren’t for the beautiful art and furniture (that just needs a little help) it almost feels like you going into a chain restaurant where everything comes off the Sysco truck. I only wanted to write this review because I dearly love this place and don’t want to see it losing so sad. A meal with your family and a special place like this is an experience and I hope next time I come back I can delete this and write about how wonderful our experience was. I’ve had literal decades of great experiences at the restaurant I don’t want...

I stopped by the Inn yesterday to inquire about doing a family get together in February, needing about 10 rooms for a weekend. Nice young man showed me around and was great. I decided to stay for lunch since I was there. Sat down and thought would knock out some work emails. I needed Wi-Fi to do so. I saw that the Inn had Wi-Fi so I inquired at the front desk for the access code. The young lady told me "Sorry, the wi-fi is only for guests", thinking that she didn't realize I was a guest in the dining room I told her I was. She then told me the Wi-Fi was only for Hotel Guests. I asked what the difference was because I was spending money at the hotel. She didn't answer me so I sat back down confused and wondered why they segregate their guests. A few minutes later, I saw a lady in the dining room who looked like either the manager or the owner of the inn and I approached her and asked the same question for the Wi-Fi password, thinking the young lady at the desk was incorrect surely this person would rectify the issue. Again, I was told the same thing! Once again and I mentioned that i was a paying guest but just received a blank stare in response. If she offered a reasonable explanation, perhaps I would understand better. At that point I didn't even want to stay, but the waitress was very nice and I stayed. I walked across the street to the Cornerstone Inn and found that they were much more accommodating and decided to bring my weekend group there instead. Its unfortunate that something so simple that they could have done to make me feel welcomed could have resulted in me bringing more business to them. The inn has potential but lacks the...

We visited the Artist Colony Inn during the last week of October 2020. We almost booked in for two nights, and I’m so happy we didn’t! I’ve never slept on a more uncomfortable bed, and I’ve slept in the ground, in a tent! A firm mattress sits on a piece of plywood, in a bed frame. Every time you move, even just an arm, it’s accompanied by a cacophony of sound, the drapes are unlined, so even on the third floor, light from hilly streets gets in. Their are unsecured rugs on the floors, that frequently slide when you encounter them, and if your ceiling slopes into the room, as ours did, sliding on the rug means slapping you head into the sloped roof. We left tired and headachy, and that’s not the way you should leave an Inn, and highly priced Inn at that. We got into town early, and booked based on the 4 stars, that turn out to be for the restaurant, not the Inn. It was a cold, rainy day, and you can’t get to your room until 4. There is no lobby or lounge area for guests to sit and read or just stare at a fire or out the window when the weather isn’t conducive to walking around. The rooms are small and spartan, they do appear to be clean, so that’s in their favor. Years and years ago, my grandfather got caught in a snowstorm on his way through Nashville, and was put up in the old jail for the night, as there were no hotels there then. I think he must have passed a more comfortable night there than we did...