Bar, restaurant owners hope staying open later brings more 'normalcy' Beginning Monday, Nashville bars and restaurants that serve alcohol will be able to stay open an hour later until mid-night. While it may sound like a small change, managers say it will make a big difference and last updated 2021-02-01 09:44:51-05 NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) â For restaurant and bar goers a night out won't have to end until midnight. Customers will also be allowed to enter until 11 p.m. beginning Monday. "What the hour does for us -- it allows us to afford this new property tax hike, maybe a little bit of that, but more importantly what it allows us to do is hire more people and bring more of our employees back to work," said Operating Partner of Nashville Underground, Joshua Pemberton.