Nashville doesn’t play around with pizza or beer, and one laid-back spot in Donelson is quietly convincing locals you really can get “best-of-both-worlds” pies and pints under one roof. 🍕🍺
At TennFold Brewing, you’re walking into a place where scratch-made pizza, thoughtful small plates, and house-brewed beer all share the spotlight, and families, beer geeks, and date-night couples happily crowd the same long tables without anyone feeling out of place. 😎
The Brewery That Proved Nashville Needed A Seriously Good Pizza Taproom All Along
TennFold didn’t ease its way into the Nashville food conversation.
It kicked the door open.
Nashville restaurateur Edgar Pendley opened the doors with a bold idea: build a family-friendly craft brewery in Donelson that takes its pizza just as seriously as its beer, with slow-fermented dough, creative toppings, and a menu that feels more like a proper restaurant than a taproom afterthought.
The kitchen leans into creative, chef-driven pies with sweet-meets-savory combos like country ham and figs and hot honey drizzles, without ever losing sight of the fact that sometimes all anyone really wants is a perfect cheese pizza done right.
On the beer side, house brews and rotating taps give you plenty of room to play matchmaker with your slice, from crisp lagers that love salty cheese to hop-forward IPAs that hold their own against bolder toppings. 🍻
Social feeds lit up with photos of pickle pizzas, hot-honey pies, and towering drafts, and suddenly this Donelson pizza brewery wasn’t just a neighborhood hang.
It became the kind of place people cross town for, dragging friends along just to prove they weren’t exaggerating.
Today it lands on short lists for kid-friendly breweries and great Nashville pizza, a pretty remarkable spot tucked off Lebanon Pike in Donelson that still feels like something you stumbled onto yourself. ✨
Food Highlights
- Bacon & Dill Pickle Pizza: Smoky bacon and tangy dill pickles land on a cheesy, savory base and somehow make perfect sense together — that salty, briny, creamy bite that turns curious first-timers into regulars before the pie is even finished. 🥓🥒
- Country Ham & Fig Pizza: The Country Ham & Fig stacks salty country ham and sweet figs onto slow-fermented, perfectly blistered dough, a sweet-savory combo that feels fancy enough for date night but cozy enough to crush with a cold pint. 🍕
- White Pizza: Creamy cheeses, garlic, and herbs take center stage where red sauce would normally live, making this White Pizza a rich, aromatic crowd-pleaser that’s just as good shared as it is quietly hoarded. 🧄
- Hot Honey Brie Pizza: Gooey brie meets a drizzle of spicy-sweet honey in this showstopper pie, delivering that indulgent, playful heat that makes every slice completely impossible to stop eating. 🌶️🍯
- Smoked Wings: Hickory-kissed, dusted, and sauced, served with blue cheese or ranch, these wings deliver that sticky-fingers, one-more-wing energy that pairs dangerously well with a house IPA. 🍗
- Garlic Knots: Brushed with garlic butter, basil, and pecorino and served with truffle ranch and marinara, these garlic knots are the move while you’re waiting on your pizza, and honestly after it arrives too. 🥖
Atmosphere
TennFold Brewing hits a rare sweet spot: a spacious, family-friendly taproom with genuine pizza-parlor energy that works equally well for stroller-pushing parents and big groups who can’t agree on anything except that they’re definitely ordering another round. 🍕🍻
Inside, long communal tables and big windows set a relaxed tone, with servers weaving through carrying trays of bubbling pizzas and beer flights in this buzzy Donelson hangout that never takes itself too seriously.
A large dog-friendly patio adds another layer of ease, making it just as natural to show up in game-day gear as in “casual date night” mode. 🐶
It’s the kind of place where you order one more pint while the kids split a dessert, and somehow nobody’s in a rush to leave.
Bottom Line
Head to TennFold Brewing for creative, craveable pizzas, house-brewed beers, a laid-back family-and-dog-friendly taproom, and that unmistakable “local secret” Donelson energy that makes you want to come back with a bigger group next time. 🍕✨
Address:
2408 Lebanon Pike, Nashville, TN 37214
📞 +1 615-727-7577
🕔 Open daily, Mon–Thu, 11 AM–9 PM; Fri–Sat, 11 AM–10 PM; Sun, 11 AM–9 PM