Hot Chicken

Fried chicken slicked with cayenne paste, from mild to punishing, on white bread with dill pickle chips on top. The Prince family has served it since the 1940s; as a sandwich it now comes on a bun just as often, usually with slaw.

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Pepperfire – The Nations

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A hot chicken shop that opened in 2010 and moved from East Nashville to the Nations. Its sandwich is two tenders on a toasted brioche bun with poppyseed slaw and Dale's Comeback Sauce. The house oddity is the Tender Royale: three tenders stacked on a deep-fried pepper jack grilled cheese.

5104 Centennial Blvd, Suite C, Nashville, TN 37209

Hot chicken sandwich with poppyseed slaw and comeback sauce

Red's Hot Chicken – West End

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A walk-up window near the Parthenon, run by chef Eric "Red" White, who started out with a food truck. No bone-in birds here: tenders and boneless thighs soak in buttermilk for a day and a half before frying. For a sandwich, get the crunchwrap, with hot chicken, pimento mac and cheese and comeback sauce seared inside a tortilla.

115 27th Ave N, Nashville, TN 37203

Hot chicken mac & cheese crunchwrap

Prince's hot chicken sandwich with slaw and pickles

Prince's Hot Chicken – Nolensville Pike

Grab a Sandwich Hot Chicken Open Now Closed

The family that gave Nashville hot chicken. As the story goes, Thornton Prince's fed-up girlfriend loaded his fried chicken with pepper to punish him, he loved it, and the family has been frying it ever since. The Nolensville Pike shop is the one to visit, and the sandwich comes messy, doused in a sweet-hot sauce.

5814 Nolensville Pike, Nashville, TN 37211

Hot chicken sandwich

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