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Is Bottle Cap Still Open? Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives Update

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 36 Nashville, Tennessee

Current status

Open

As of October 2026, Bottle Cap is open — confirmed via the restaurant's current website/social account, accessed September 8, 2026.

What the source shows: The business's own website runs an active online ordering system and lists current Sunday brunch hours as of 2026-09-08 even though its visible page text otherwise references 2024, and Google Places separately marks the listing operational the same day. How we decide a status →

What happened after Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives?

Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives visited this Nashville restaurant and bar during the "Burger, Bird and Meaty Italian" episode, aired 2022-09-09, highlighting pub food alongside cocktails and brunch service. Bottle Cap operates on 12th Avenue South in Nashville's 12 South neighborhood and describes itself on its own site, bottlecapnashville.com, as a locally owned restaurant and bar with cold drafts and "lots of TVs." The site, checked on 2026-09-08, listed Sunday brunch hours of 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. and ran an active online ordering system, though its page content otherwise referenced 2024 rather than a more recent year. Google Places listed the business as operational on 2026-09-08, and the bar's own site still references its past appearance on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives.

The episode Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives, Season 36

Episode 1
Aired
Title: Burger, Bird and Meaty Italian · What was featured: pub food and brunch at a 12 South bar
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Sources we checked 2 references

  1. bottlecapnashville.com http://bottlecapnashville.com/
  2. Google https://www.google.com/maps/search/?api=1&query=36.1260433,-86.7895587
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Record ddd-1344 · checked by Cal Marchetti.