Bacco opens at Four Seasons Nashville, bringing house-made pasta downtown

Four Seasons Hotel and Private Residences Nashville has put a new name on downtown’s Italian dining map. Bacco opened to the public on April 10, 2026, after a multimillion-dollar renovation of the hotel’s first-floor restaurant space, giving the luxury property a flagship restaurant concept built around premium cuts, house-made pastas, wine, and cocktails.

Bacco is pitched as a Tuscan-inspired steakhouse that brings “the soul of Tuscany” to Music City, with reservations already available on OpenTable when the launch was announced. The design transformation was led by AvroKO, and Four Seasons said the restaurant was inspired by Bacchus, the Roman god of wine and revelry, a name that fits the room’s wine-forward, social ambitions.

What makes Bacco matter is not just that it is another Italian opening. It gives the Four Seasons a named pasta destination inside a hotel portfolio that already includes Mimo Restaurant and Bar, Rivière Rooftop, banquets, and in-room dining. In a downtown scene that increasingly favors destination dining over simple neighborhood service, Bacco is aimed squarely at diners who want a polished room for a celebration, a business dinner, or a reservation worth planning around.

The concept is designed for exactly those occasions. Bacco’s private-events materials say it can host rehearsal dinners, bridesmaid luncheons, formal receptions, and both small and large business meetings. Bacco Bar extends the same Italian theme into a more social space for drinks and nightlife, which broadens the restaurant’s reach beyond the dinner crowd and into the hotel’s evening traffic.

Pasta sits near the center of that identity, even if the menu is broader than a single pasta course. Bacco’s positioning includes seasonal Italian dishes alongside premium steak cuts, curated libations, and a modern take on the classic steakhouse. The breakfast menu pushes that blend even further, pairing local and regional ingredients like Sequatchie Farm eggs, Gifford’s smoked bacon, Tennessee pork sausage, and Valley Gold sausage gravy with items such as eggs in purgatory verde, Italian hash, cacio e pepe hash brown, and a tiramisù cinnamon roll.

That mix tells the story of the opening better than any slogan could. Bacco is not a one-off red-sauce room tucked into a hotel lobby. It is a luxury dining anchor meant to serve travelers and downtown regulars alike, with house-made pasta as part of a larger premium Italian program and enough event space, wine, and late-night energy to become a default choice for special nights out in Nashville.