Garth Brooks' Friends in Low Places Nashville honkytonk to open daily soon

Three months after its Thanksgiving evening soft opening via an Amazon Music "Dive Bar" concert, Garth Brooks' Friends in Low Places honky-tonk — at 411 Broadway — announced it would finally open seven days a week on March 7.

At a November press conference, the Country Music Hall of Famer noted that his new venue would open only two of its four floors (including its "Oasis" rooftop) on weekends through Valentine's Day 2024, with March as a potential opening date for the venue in full.

He's achieved that goal.

Friends In Low Places plans to be open seven days a week, 11 a.m.-2 a.m. CT Monday through Friday and 10 a.m.-2 a.m. Saturday and Sunday.

In total, the venue's grand opening will unveil four floors of the 54,715-square-foot venue — at that square footage, the seller of 100 million records' space will occupy the greatest amount of square footage in the area between First and Fifth Avenue of Nashville's Lower Broadway.

Friends' MNPD substation also opens March 7

The opening will include a police substation developed in partnership with the Metropolitan Nashville Police Department.

The police-friendly nature of Friends In Low Places is aimed, as Metro Police representatives indicated in March 2023, at "reducing traffic congestion and keeping the cities' busiest few blocks secure."

Brooks believes that the substation eliminates a potentially dangerous downtown alley and expands space where Metro Police already corralled horses for mounted patrol to now include spaces for parking police vehicles.

Also, an elevated vantage point will be erected so police officers can have increased visibility from Lower Broadway's Fifth to First Avenue intersections.

What can you expect on each floor of Friends In Low Places?

Aside from what has been viewed on the venue's first two levels, the grand opening will reveal a third-floor housing three 250-person private event spaces, complete with a double-sided fireplace and an intimate patio. A press statement notes these effects "[echo] the cozy atmosphere of Garth and Trisha's home."

As for the rooftop "Oasis"? It's described as Lower Broadway's largest rooftop with 10-foot-tall palm trees, two full bars and "a beachy paradise [atmosphere] with unmatched views."

Inside Friends in Low Places, two palm trees growing on the venue's second floor — which has three levels open to looking down on the first floor's retractable stage — are named for Earl Bud Lee and Dewayne Blackwell, the three-decade-old classic's co-writers.

The venue's bars will close at 2 a.m. most nights plus will not feature live music past midnight.

Trisha Yearwood's Southern Kitchen comes to Lower Broadway

Insofar as Brooks' wife, Trisha Yearwood, more is now known about how her renowned culinary skills will avail themselves in the space.

A menu featuring an assortment of dishes drawing from the success of her "Trisha's Southern Kitchen" Food Network program, multiple best-selling cookbooks and Brooks' favorite Yearwood recipes will — with a touch of Nashville-traditional flair — include the "Meat and Three," comprised of "Mama's Meatloaf" or "Fried Chicken with white gravy" and choice of 3 sides.

The honky-tonk's food menu will be available 11 a.m. - 9 p.m. CT, seven days a week.

In November, the artist who played for an estimated crowd of one million people in New York City's Central Park a quarter-century ago offered a self-effacing answer about the venue's name.

"The song outlives the artist. Whether you like me or don't, you love 'Friends In Low Places.'"

This article originally appeared on Nashville Tennessean: Garth Brooks' Nashville bar opens daily soon, includes Trisha Yearwood menu