Garth Brooks‘ Friends in Low Places Bar and Honky Tonk in downtown Nashville is giving away free food on July 4th. The popular bar and restaurant, owned by Brooks and his wife, Trisha Yearwood, will give out free hot dogs on Independence Day.
The news was announced on social media.
“Nashville’s throwing down for the 4th — and so are we!” the post reads. “We’re firing up the grill at 2:00 PM on the Oasis Rooftop and handing out FREE HOT DOGS UNTIL THEY’RE GONEEEE! First come, first served. No catch. Just hotdogs and holiday madness. With 250,000 people expected in the city, we figured we’d do our part to feed a few (thousand). The rooftop’s hot. The dogs are hotter. Don’t miss it.”
With a long line expected, there is a way to get early access, but that, sadly isn’t free. VIP tickets to skip the line start at $25.44 and are available for purchase here.
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It makes sense that Friends in Low Places is giving out free food, since Broks opened the bar, restaurant and music venue as a way to say thank you to a city that made his biggest dreams come true.
“This one is a thank you,” Brooks tells Everything Nash. “This one has been a guilt trip for me forever. This city has been so good to me. And it’s like the musical Oz kind of thing. So if you’re one of the people that’s lucky enough to get to live the dream, don’t you owe this city? This is how we think about it. So it’s been piling up on you and piling up on you that you owe this city. Let’s give it something.”
Although Friends in Low Places was entirely Brooks’ idea, he was careful to not name it after himself, but instead the song that made him famous.
“You notice it’s not the Garth Brooks bar, because who knows how many people know who Garth Brooks is? But everybody has sang ‘Friends in Low Places,’” Brooks explains. “And so that’s the fun part of it. And Friends in Low Places is gonna live a lot longer than Garth Brooks ever will. So I think it was the right name for the bar, right place for it. The location’s fantastic. And you don’t get better in country music than right here in the home of country music.”
It’s Yearwood’s own recipes in Friends in Low Places, although she admits she was against the idea at first.
“My first response when Garth suggested this idea was no. I’ve not dreamed of owning a bar,” Yearwood tells Eater Nashville. “But you go downtown, you see all these bars by all these country artists, and I can’t imagine there not being something that represents Garth Brooks in this town.”
Once Brooks convinced her to open Friends in Low Places with him, she knew it had to feature her own food.
“It’s about making simple food that’s good, and keeping that quality high,” Yearwood explains. “We’re not going to make it complicated. And that’s been the premise of my whole thing with food: I’m a home cook — I’m not a chef.”
Friends in Low Places Bar and Honky Tonk is located at 411 Broadway, in downtown Nashville.