SPACES
Just like every Chief show is different, every night at Chief’s is different. With six floors for different experiences, we’ve revived every square inch of the iconic Leslie Warner Building. No matter what you’re looking for on Broadway, you’ll find it here.
When you’re ready for an unparalleled entertainment experience where authentic details matter, don’t just go to Broadway. Go to Chief’s.
- Chief's Tavern
1st Floor
- Friendly Shadows
2nd Floor
- Neon Steeple
3rd - 4th Floors
- Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ
5th Floor + Rooftop
Chief's Tavern
1st Floor
Broadway doesn’t always feel local. Chief’s Tavern is here to change that. Covered in approximately 4,000 posters from a career on the road, the Tavern is that familiar spot back home where the locals gather, listen to some music, and catch up before it’s time to do it all again.
The Tavern isn’t where you go when you visit Broadway. It’s where you go back to when you’ve been in a thousand towns writing on your guitar, on the road they say never ends.
Friendly Shadows
2nd Floor
If your Nashville night is about connecting a melody with a memory, stop by Friendly Shadows on the second floor. It’s the unofficial home of the Church Choir—just look at the wall of Polaroids to prove it—and a place to put a new memory with all the songs you know and love. We’ve got everything from Jones to Jennings, along with anything else you could pull out of a three-foot stack of vinyl.
What happens when the evening is over? It’s obvious. Stay there til they force us out, take the long way to your house.
Neon Steeple
3rd and 4th Floors
There is no performance space in Nashville like this. The stage includes wood from a former still on Eric’s land. The pews are circa 1890, just like the building itself. And you’re surrounded by 20 stained glass windows depicting some of Eric’s biggest influences, all with their own story to tell when you unlock it. You’ve never seen any of the artists who perform here—whether it’s Eric himself or his carefully curated list of friends—quite like this. Even if you’ve seen them in Nashville before, you’ve never seen them at Chief’s.
Through his Ray Bans? Tonight, the artist is standing in the middle of those Ray Bans on the Neon Steeple stage. So go ahead. The battle wages tomorrow. But tonight, you don’t give a damn.
Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ
5th and 6th Floor
“When pigs fly.” Oh, but here, they do. Chief’s 5th foor and rooftop is home to, a Hell of a ‘Q (Rodney Scott’s Whole Hog BBQ), and everything else you need to continue your night above the entire rest of Broadway. Whether it’s the summer before the real world starts or the winds grow cold and it blows October, come all the way to the top of Chief’s for the best food and drinks combined with the best people. The town’s your canvas. Let’s paint it red tonight.
