Date Spots in Knoxville, TN

Dating in Knoxville

Dating in Knoxville can start over coffee and a walk. You have plenty of coffee shops—K Brew, Pete's Coffee Shop, Coffee & Chocolate, Just Love Coffee Cafe - Knoxville, Mia Piccola, New Here Coffee, Capybara Coffee, Commonplace, The Kraken's Cup, and Camp Honey Coffee—so a first meetup can stay easy and low-pressure. Pair that with an outdoor stop like World's Fair Park, Suttree Landing Park, Lakeshore Park, James Agee Dog Park, Beth Ann Booker Park, First Creek Park, Fulton Bicentennial Park, Scott-Roberts Park, Victor Ashe Park, or Krutch Park. If you want culture, try the Knoxville Museum of Art, Women's Basketball Hall of Fame, Blount Mansion, Mabry-Hazen House, The Muse Knoxville, East Tennessee History Center, McClung Museum, Beck Cultural Exchange Center, or Winstead Mansion.

For dinner, Knoxville leans into variety: French Market Crêperie for crepes, Balter Beer Works, Southern Kitchen, Kaizen for asian, Dead End BBQ for barbecue, Chesapeake's for seafood, J.C. Holdway, Dazzos Pizzeria for pizza, Calhoun’s on the River, and Tupelo Honey Cafe. You can follow with drinks at Skybox Sports Bar and Grill, The Hill, The Half Barrel, Brother Wolf, Old City Sports Bar, The Urban Corner Cafe, Cool Beans Bar and Grill, Iron Forge Brewing Co., Hexagon Brewery, or Lucky Shot Billiards. The Old City and The Hill show up in the drinks and entertainment lists, so you can build a night around them, with Bijou Theatre, Tennessee Theatre, or Old City Performing Arts Center to close the evening.

Neighborhoods in Knoxville

These areas are called out in the local notes for this city. They can help you keep a date to one part of town.

• Old City Old City Sports Bar and Old City Performing Arts Center make this a natural stop for drinks and entertainment.
• The Hill The Hill is a listed drinks venue, so it works for a casual drink date.
• Fulton Fulton Bicentennial Park gives this area a quiet outdoor option.