Went to the Christmas brunch every year we could since 2011. We were always pleased with the food, staff, presentation and holiday atmosphere until this year when Mason's presented. The staff was nice but the food and ambience no way compared to Christmas brunch past. The dessert table in the past was filled with beautiful desserts and the food choices were amazing. This year Dessert was dry cookies and died cupcakes and the food choices didn't even come close! Miss the piano player also:( read more

Excellent bar menu. Cazerac and old fashion are definitely worth a try. Fantastic service and lots of big screen TV's compliment the delicious drinks and warm atmosphere. read more

Impressed by both the food and the atmosphere/decor. Started at the bar with excellent seasonal cocktails and fantastic decor. Moved into dining room for dinner which was a surprising treat for a hotel restaurant. Deviled eggs unanimously the best hands down we've had. Nothing short of perfect. Fried green tomato appetizer fantastic also. Entrees did not disappoint. Loved the scallops with artichoke. Friendly wait staff. We are locals dining out and wanting something close to home but original and fun for a girls night out. The prices for the entree were a few dollars too high compared to it's competitors. But overall, definitely impressed and would love to return. read more

This was a nice restaurant in a really nice hotel. The food was delicious and the service was friendly with a southern twang. After driving all night and feeling crummy the hotel staff was so nice and made is feel comfortable in our relax outfits. The burger with a fried egg was delicious! read more

Just finished up dinner at Mason's...wow, what a great place! I usually am not a fan of hotel restaurants but this was amazing, I would highly recommend this place to anyone visiting Nashville. read more

Chef Brandon Frohne is spectacular with the refreshing take on Southern food that he lends to the menu.

What a wonderful experience:) The decor and warmth of the room is incredible! The clever placement of the mason jars both in the bar area and the restaurant are quite creative without being cheesy. The overall charm of the lobby entrance, dining area and bar are rather remarkable. The staff is superior! Our waiter, Larry (formerly with F. Scott's famous Nashville restaurant) could not have been more attentive, knowledgeable, or personable. Jack ordered the Shrimp & Grits, which he raved about every bite. I ordered the Fried Chicken Galantine and it was off-the-charts delicious. Such brilliant marrying of flavors and textures. The Chef is superior! Also....Larry insisted Jack try the "Night Cap" (which he savored) and we also took home the Dark Chocolate Cremeux, because I couldn't hold another bite. We would highly recommend it and we look forward to going back for another fabulous experience! read more

We had a wonderful dinner last night. The Crab corn dogs, fried green tomatoes and the Halibut were the best I have ever had. Also try the Shrimp & Grits. They were excellent. I am from the low country of S.C. and the folks down there would be proud to know the tradition is being carried on up here in Tennessee. The waiter (Ben) and the manager (Marcos) were very engaging, knowledgeable and committed to creating a wonderful dining experience. The décor was warm and relaxing and the wine list was diverse, well thought out, with some big hitters available by bottle and also by glass. Also if you are looking for a cool place to have a drink then the lounge across the way is the place to be. The drink options are extensive and delivered by highly trained and experienced personnel. This team knows how to make a cocktail!! read more

Gourmet quality entrees. Went to the restaurant (much quieter than the bar). Good service, relaxing decor. Pork chop and chicken dishes were complex and delicious. read more

This place has SUCH great happy hour...from 5-7, you can get any food in the bar half-off, plus half-off all $9 glasses of wine and $5 20oz beers. The prosciutto, arugula flat bread with fried egg is especially delicious, and a really good value at half-off. My only complaint is that the service can be pretty slow, but thankfully you have 2 hours to get in your order :) read more

Deeply, deeply mediocre. Nice service but they flat out lie about regionally sourcing cheeses, for example. Salad was meh. Dips and sides were mass production thoughtless. Seriously disappointing and I would avoid. read more

Solid food all around. Bone marrow app a bit salty but savory and tasty. Had the ancho pork chop which was well cooked and tender. Wife enjoyed her scallops and devoured them. Excellent service. Romantic ambience. Would definitely eat here again. Surprisingly empty for a Saturday night which was strange especially considering the quality of everything. read more

Inviting, spacious, and classy - that's how I feel about Mason's! Went this week to catch Loew's "Balance with Erin Oprea" Happy Hour session. BTW fitness trainer Erin Oprea trains several CW stars, including Carrie Underwood. The Happy Hour had some tasty free treats - beet chips, portabello mushrooms, and Mandarin Smash cocktails! Mason's also offered their regular HH prices with $5 glasses of wine and 1/2 off most bar food. We enjoyed it all! One of the nicest things about Mason's is it pure size and level of comfort. It has a great looking bar but also has several huge sofa areas around to relax and catch up with friends. Skip the downtown and Gulch happy hours and pop into Mason's. Loew's does have free self-parking in their garage. Just ask for the parking pass from your server. read more

I cannot understand why this place isn't packed all the time. Insanely delicious. I discovered this gem by accident while staying at Lowes - I was too sick to go out and my husband and I decided to eat at the hotel restaurant. That was in April of 2014 and I have been back 6 times. I'm from St. Louis btw... GO HERE!!! read more

We dined here on Christmas Day and it was one of the best meals I ever had. The salad was so special and so was my fish. Chef did a great job and his/her creativity was oozing out from the food.The dessert was this out of the world coconut-tarty pudding thing and the best part was, it was gluten free. Being celiac, I hardly get to eat a dessert and this is truly the best dessert I have ever had. They were understaffed, so it took quite a while to get the meals on the table but we were in no rush and manager was very nice and to compensate for the delay our desserts were on the house. Perfect ending to our Christmas Day! read more

The photos are old on yelp. Ordered halibut, it was 3oz max and fried? Tasteless too. Server felt bad and brought me a free appetizer which I picked tuna tartare. That was very good but another tiny portion. I appreciated the server trying to make things right but I wouldn't eat here again. read more

The menu has changed, so it is not "Southern" anymore. No shrimp and grits. And there was NO entree suitable for a straight-up vegetarian, much less a vegan. One of our party ordered a beet salad to try to eat a vegetarian meal and received four tiny slices of beets on a long cracker. There was no one else in the restaurant but us. We should have clued in from that. read more

I have attended several Yelp events here (all incredibly awesome) but never come here of my own accord for dinner. As it was on the short list for a friend of mine before a concert, and I love trying new places to Yelp about, I voted Mason's. At dinnertime on a Thursday, the bar area was absolutely packed and loud and seating was impossible, so the actual restaurant space was our choice for dining. The concept behind Mason's is classic Southern cuisine with a French twist. Sounds fantastic. The deviled eggs with bacon jam (I feel anything with bacon jam automatically wins) and pickled okra were so effing delicious and the perfect little appetizer to split before dinner. My friend got the shrimp and grits and let me tell you, come hungry if you order this. There was no way she was finishing that even if I helped her. Their burger, with garlic aioli over mayo, was perfectly done and not too gigantic. Also it came with arugula over traditional lettuce. Overall a great combo that didn't need much adornment. Mind you, the prices here are a little steep, but you can always go the tapas route and split some appetizers. They have a huge wine selections and a lot of local brews on tap. The space is dark, intimate, and quiet. The service was great. Overall a good experience and I will be back. read more

if you're looking for a good dinner, do yourself a favor and head around the block to the ruth's chris. i just ate the worst steak dinner i've ever had. i arrived at the lowe's vanderbilt saturday and did eat at ruth's chris - a chain steakhouse but at least you know what you're getting. tonight (monday), having eaten at ruth's chris' on saturday, i didn't want to go there again right away. instead, i figured hell, i'll try the restaurant here - mason's. i had a lovely experience drinking there saturday night, surely the food wouldn't be awful considering the hotel i'm at - lowe's - is generally pretty great. i ordered the strip steak which comes with pickled vegetables and fried onions. i asked if i could substitute fries for the pickled vegetables, and the bartender said no go. no substitutions. big red flag, but whatever. bartender was a nice enough dude and when my steak was taking longer than normal he apologized for the wait. "no worries", i replied sipping my yazoo ipa. the steak arrives and the side of pickled vegetables a small jar of fucking cocktail pickles, with one pickled pepper and one piece of pickled okra. who in their right mind serves a strip steak with a jar of cocktail pickles? what in the night of the living dead sort of meal is that? a cut of meat, a piece of cornbread, and a small jar of pickles? you're better off going to a goddamned chili's or an applebee's than this garbage restaurant. they discounted my bill, but 100 times out of 100 times, i'll gladly pay full price for a meal than a reduced price for a garbage meal - and make no mistake, this was a garbage meal. an hour later and i'm hungry again. wonderful. a small jar of cocktail pickles is their side with the most expensive item on their menu. unbe-fucking-lievable. read more

So, about two weeks ago my wife and I were in Florida with some friends and ate at the #1 rated steakhouse in the US - Bern's Steakhouse in Tampa. While the service there was fantastic and the food was very good, my meal at Mason's was hands-down, no-contest, much better than at Bern's. From the appetizers; I had the bone marrow which was excellent, my son had their "devil of an egg" which he stated was the best deviled egg he ever had! The bacon jam and mustard caviar was fantastic on the eggs. My wife had the fried green tomato that had crab, peas, feta cheese and a smoked pepper aioli and she ate every last bit - she loved it. The for our meal, my wife had the shrimp and grits which she gets at many restaurants and she thought it was the best she's had. My son had the mason burger with a fried egg on it and truffled french fries along with a side of their grits. He loved everything about the burger and particularly the grits. My meal was their fried chicken galantine with spicy collards on a bed of mashed turnips. If you've never had a galantine, it is a forced meat in this case with chicken, bacon and rosemary. It was absolutely fantastic. The portion sizes were great and allowed us to have the appetizer, meal and desserts without being overly stuffed. Our desserts were also excellent. Definitely worth going back to over and over again - don't miss this place! read more

Tiny and out of place. Doesn't feel like a restaurant. Service was slow and chaotic on thanksgiving but that's understandable. Overall food was good. read more

We had an amazing meal and we would highly recommend Mason's for a great date night dinner out. Every items we ordered was unique and wonderful. The Elvis dessert was out of this world and a great way to finish the meal. We will be back for sure! read more

We had a superb dinner at the Mason's Restaurant in Nashville. The dining room was closed for a private party but we had a completely comfortable and enjoyable meal in the bar. The bar has a wide range of very comfortable seating. Our wait staff was excellent and very friendly. The food and drinks very perfectly prepared and served. We had the burger and it deserves its reputation as the best. We were very pleased and we highly recommend them. read more

OUTSTANDING. Came here for our first wedding anniversary and absolutely loved it. I had a cocktail made with fresh watermelon soda and it was amazing. We tried the fried green tomatoes, shrimp and grits and some type of chicken gastrique which is no longer on the menu. We finished with the Elvis Dark Chocolate Cremeux. I cannot remember our server's name and I'm shooting myself in the foot for that because he was absolutely excellent. Very knowledgable with the menu and personable, but not overly chatty which can be annoying when you are trying to have a nice meal. read more

Chicken and dumpings were interesting and very good. A slight hint of curry and fritter-like dumpling. Unfortunately they only had one server for the entire restaurant and the service was incredibly bad. The guy was really trying but there's only so much that one guy can do. read more

I visited Nashville this week. When I found out that Mason's was down the street from my hotel and I had connected the fact that the chef was on Chopped (a cooking show I watch a lot), I made a reservation. I was alone so couldn't try too many dishes. I had the pork chop entree, which was quite nice (I wanted to pick up the bone with my fingers, but made myself resist). My dessert was odd. When I got back to the hotel and looked at the current menu online, I figured out why: I got the wrong sauce. They put the lemon curd sauce (part of the blueberry dessert-more appropriate) on my chocolate+peanut butter dessert ("Elvis' Dark Chocolate Cremeux * Banana Jam, Olive & Sinclair Bacon Toffee, Peanut Butter Crumb) Seems like a careless mistake to use the wrong sauce and to include at least one typo in the description! The toffee was good anyway. read more

Went here for lunch - loved the shaved Brussels with pear and apricots! So delicious!! It's in the hotel so you can get your parking verified - just make sure you keep both parking tickets when you leave- your original and the one the server gives you - we were trapped in the garage!! read more

Ï typically don't eat in hotel restaurants as I like to venture out from the hotel. Circumstances prompted me and friends to dine at Masons and it was the best meal I ever had and I eat out 5+ times per week. The menus was very interesting and everything I tried was nothing short of amazing. The greens and kimchi were so good the filled in for desert and my tenderloin was perfectly. The service was second to none and the overall environment was very relaxing even though there were celebrities dining there during the time we were there.i I'll definitely be back for dinner and to stay in the hotel which was also great. This place is a must go! read more

I have been staying in Nashville for a conference with tow of my staff for several days and have had the pleasure of having drinks and appetizers at the bar at Mason's for the last three nights. First, let me start by saying that the drinks and appetizers were phenomenal. The atmosphere was terrific and their seating is perfect for intimate conversations as well as group revelries. In particular I would like to commend their staff for their personalized service and attention to detail. My group was fortunate enough to have Megan as our server and let me tell you, it has been one of the best experiences I have ever had the pleasure to encounter. Megan made the effort to get to know my group as well as our favorite choice of libations and took great care of us each night we came in. To be honest, we made sure to come back each night during our stay in Nashville specifically because of how Megan attended to our every need while making us feel like friends. Even during a rather crazy Saturday crowd, Megan made us feel at home! Much like in the show Cheers, Megan and the rest of the great team at Masons made us feel like we found the "place where everybody knows your name." I could only be so lucky to replicate this experience in my hometown of Atlanta! Kudos to Mason's and kudos to Megan! If you come to Nashville, be sure to come to Mason's!!!! And ask for Megan! Tell her Carlos, Val and Sangria sent you and say hello! read more

Went for brunch yesterday. Food was good, but presentation and consistency was lacking. I had the TN Benedict, a Nashville take on Eggs Benedict, using a biscuit, egg, country ham, and sausage gravy. It had lots of ham on one half of the biscuit, hardly any on the other half, same with the sausage gravy. Ordered a side of fried green tomatoes, a favorite of mine, and they arrived, four slices of tomatoe, no sauce for dipping. The breakfast tacos arrived in the same condition, most of the chorizo on one taco, nothing much on the other. The "crispy" hash browns were not on one of our party's plate. The stuffed French Toast was excellent. Overall, food is good, but execution needs help. read more

You may think that the orange juice they're pouring you (without asking if you want it) is complimentary, but the bill will disabuse you of that notion. Food was fine. read more

Mason's was a great set for a special dinner with special people. The atmosphere of the room was a very smooth one and very pleasant as well. Our waiter was skillful in guiding us through the menu. This was greatly appreciated by me, a person new to the southern table. The food was delicious. No other way of putting it. From start(ers) to finish we were all very happy, sharing with each other a sample of their food on a fork (Yep we're those kind of people). The wine that accompanied this was also spot on! Recommendation is a definite thing. intimate and professional restaurant with a great kitchen. read more

The fried green tomatoes were only ok, but the short rib and bone marrow was delicious! The peach salad with peppery arugula was very tasty, but the yellow squash in it was just odd. The chicken was fairly bland, but the scallops and risotto were fantastic! I really wanted to like this place a lot, given reviews I've read and things I've heard about the chef, but there were too many "buts" that kept detracting from a great experience. Prices were definitely too high for the entrees and cocktails. The noise level from the bar across the corridor was very annoying. Our service was excellent - helpful and checked back frequently, but not overwhelming. read more