Veal parm in Nashville, TN: our top picks
Nashville never had a Little Italy, and its oldest Italian thread ran through a chili bowl. Varallo’s, opened in 1907 by Italian immigrant Frank Varallo Sr. and known for its "three-way" of spaghetti, tamale and chili, announced its closing in early 2026. Mario Ferrari’s fine-dining room on Broadway burned in 2006 and never reopened, and Sole Mio downtown is gone too. The old guard that remains is small: Amerigo has been on West End Avenue since 1991, and Valentino’s spent nearly three decades in a West End mansion before moving to Hayes Street in Midtown in 2019.
The newer wave started in Germantown. Tandy Wilson opened City House in 2007, cooking Southern-inflected Italian food, and won the James Beard award for Best Chef: Southeast in 2016. Philip Krajeck’s Rolf and Daughters followed in 2012, built around handmade pasta. Neither is a red-sauce house; both are better known for pasta than for parm.
Most of the parm now comes from out-of-town families and groups. Pelato, a small-plates spot on 3rd Avenue North in Germantown, opened in 2023 from the Scotto family, the New York restaurateurs behind Fresco by Scotto; chicken parmigiana is one of its shareable plates. The family’s first Nashville restaurant, Luogo, opened on 12th Avenue South in the Gulch in late 2022. A few blocks away, V Modern Italian opened in May 2025 as the first U.S. location of a European restaurant group, with Michelin-starred chef Stefano Ciotti collaborating on the menu. And Alla Vita, from Chicago’s Boka Restaurant Group and chef Lee Wolen, arrived in Wedgewood-Houston in June 2026 with chicken parmigiana on the menu.
- Luogo (Nashville) — Parm Score 73. Veal parm is on the restaurant’s own menu (checked November 2026). 4.8 on Google across 2,447 reviews.
We ranked 1 restaurant within 10 miles of Nashville, TN. 1 of them has the parm confirmed, by reviewers or on their own menu, and Parm Scores run from 73 to 73. Only places where reviews or the menu confirm the veal parm are listed. How Parm Score works.
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1 restaurants ranked for Veal parm near Nashville, TN.
- Luogo
211 12th Ave S, Nashville, TN 37203, USA
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