A gravel farm road curves toward a weathered wooden barn flying a US flag at sunset outside Columbia.
Mobile bar service

Mobile Bartender in Columbia, TN

Forty-five miles south, in Mule Capital of the World country.
COLUMBIA

Columbia sits about 45 miles from our Nashville base.

Distance from Nashville
45 mi
Travel fee
$150 travel

Columbia is the Maury County seat, forty-five miles south of Nashville on the north bank of the Duck River. Founded in 1807 and about fifty thousand people today. Its self-appointed title is Mule Capital of the World; Mule Day every April still pulls over 100,000 visitors. James K. Polk's Columbia home is one of only two Polk residences still standing (the other is the White House). By 1860, Maury County was the wealthiest in Tennessee, which is why it also holds more antebellum houses than any other county in the state. Downtown is a walkable square anchored by the 1906 courthouse and the two- and three-story brick storefronts that grew around it.

Columbia's drink scene runs unusually deep for a town of fifty thousand. The Bourbon Gospel and American Barrel run the downtown cocktail rooms; Red Pony reworks its food and cocktail menus eight times a year around seasonal ingredients; Puckett's Columbia turns a 26,000-square-foot historic warehouse into a music-and-food venue. Twisted Copper and Bad Idea Brewing hold down the local brewery side. The Mulehouse, a 1930s church converted into a 55,500-square-foot concert hall, drops national touring acts into the middle of downtown a few times a month. Any of it can go on a Columbia bar menu.

We work barn weddings on the antebellum estates outside town, backyard parties in Columbia's historic neighborhoods, corporate happy hours downtown, birthday parties at Puckett's warehouse and The Mulehouse, holiday parties in the Polk Home gardens, and private parties at the historic residences that give Columbia its architecture.

Notable venues

In and around Columbia

The Mulehouse

1930s church repurposed into a 55,500-square-foot concert hall and event venue in the heart of downtown. Books national touring acts a few times a month; the room turns over well for weddings and corporate events between shows.

Puckett's Columbia

26,000-square-foot historic warehouse conversion, exposed brick and rough-wood detail. Big room, small room, and a music program on both. Handles weddings, corporate events, and private parties across a footprint most Columbia venues can't match.

Mule Town Lumberyard

Rustic event venue in the historic Arts District, downtown. Family-run, wedding-first, with the industrial-lumber-shed aesthetic the name suggests.

James K. Polk Home Gardens

Outdoor rental at the Polk Home site downtown. Garden weddings, baby showers, cocktail hours in a setting that includes an American president's actual residence.

Booze Scootin's local favorites

Around Columbia

Restaurant

Red Pony

Columbia's most awarded dining room. The menu (and the cocktail list) turns over eight times a year around whatever's in season. Seasonal-Southern cooking with a serious bar program tucked into the same building.

Cocktail bar

American Barrel

Downtown cocktail cafe on Seventh Street, off the Public Square. Intimate room, no screens, vintage chandeliers, brandy-and-bourbon program. House pours to know: the Old Fashioned and the espresso martini. Small tapas menu to pair.

Brewery

Twisted Copper Brewing Company

Small-batch Columbia brewery producing a rotating short list. Taproom-and-food-truck setup that skews unpretentious. Best of the local pours if you want kegs sourced within twenty miles of the event.

A pink strawberry cocktail on a printed runner with fresh citrus, cucumbers, and mint behind.Two Booze Scootin' bartenders in tan aprons and black shirts smile behind the bar setup inside the trailer.A bartender in black pours a red cocktail into a jigger, another arranges flowers at the wooden bar behind him.A mustached bartender in a striped shirt tips a beer glass under the tap, bottles and lime slices on the bar.A cucumber-lime cocktail on the trailer's bar shelf next to a white daisy and a Booze Scootin' business card.Two Nelson's Green Brier whiskey bottles on the trailer's bar, Dan out of focus behind them in a denim shirt.A tattooed hand reaches through the trailer window for a light cocktail at golden hour, purple flowers hanging alongside.The Howdy trailer at dusk with string lights, bartenders serving guests at the outdoor window.Guests hold cocktails around the Howdy trailer parked inside a venue, sunflowers by the service window.The Howdy trailer parked in a field, daisies along the roof and window, drink dispenser and chalkboard menu out front.A smiling man in a checked shirt points at the trailer's cocktail menu, sunflowers along the bar.A 'Howdy! Quit tailin' my wagon, partner' sticker on the back of the trailer, a cowboy silhouette through the window.
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