A Running List of Nashville Hot-Inspired Dishes in Music City That Go Beyond Chicken or Fish

A Running List of Nashville Hot Chicken-Inspired Dishes in Music City

A running list of unique takes on the iconic dish, an ultimate bucket list for hot chicken diehards.

Dozens of local establishments are going the extra mile, putting interesting new spins on Nashville hot chicken. And while hundreds have added a hot (fill in the blank) dish to their menus, this guide doesn’t include traditional hot chicken, sandwiches/biscuits/salads, wings, tenders, or any of the above served with waffles or as pizza or taco topping — there are plenty of those around town. (No Nashville hot catfish or shrimp here either.) Here, find a running list of menu items around Nashville that color outside the lines.

Consider this the ultimate bucket list of interesting hot chicken-inspired dishes in Music City.

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Breakfast/Brunch

• Chauhan: Celebrity chef Maneet Chauhan’s take on the dish is a Nashville hot chicken pakora sandwich — a hot chicken oil-splashed fried thigh served on grilled sourdough, served with achar cabbage slaw and frites.
• Fat Kat Slim’s:
• Fat’s hot chicken and doughnut sandwich is a scratch-made donut with crispy fried chicken coated in “
• Fat’s Hot Spice”, drizzled with maple syrup; Nashville hot-style biscuits and grave — sausage “Nashville Hot” style blended in creamy sawmill gravy atop fluffy fresh baked biscuits.

Flatiron: Grit bowl featuring poached eggs, Nashville hot oysters, and hollandaise Graze: Hot tempeh Biscuit features fried tempeh tossed in hot chicken spices on a house-made biscuit with coleslaw and vegan ranch (served open face)

Henley: Nashville “hot” chicken salad sandwich.

Party Fowl: hot chicken and pimento cheese omelet; Nashville hot loco moco; hot chicken and stuffed French toast; Nashville hot chicken Benedict.

Slow Burn: hot chicken breakfast bowl with home fried potatoes, shredded cheese, fried egg, and spicy ranch.

Appetizers

Anzie Blue: Nashville hot chicken dip served with fried pita chips.

Burger Republic: Nashville hot tots are dusted in Nashville hot spices, then they add a drizzle of buffalo sauce, chives, and blue cheese dressing.

Chauhan Ale & Masala House: hot chicken pakoras with ghost pepper sauce.

Fat Kat Slim’s: Nashville hot-spiced cheese curds come served with marinara, but ask for a side of ranch too.

Flatiron: crispy Nashville hot fried oysters come served on Texas toast with pickle chips and remoulade.

The Fox Bar: hot chicken spiced hummus (vegan)

Hachland Hill: Nashville hot style frog legs, by request and dining by appointment only.

Hattie B’s: Dirty bird fries are seasoned crinkle fries slathered with pimento mac and cheese, dark meat hot chicken bites, comeback sauce, green onions, and kosher pickles.

The Horn Coffee: Hot chicken sambosas.

Lockeland Table: Nashville hot crispy pig ears.

The Mainstay: Nashville hot-spiced cheese curds come served with marinara, but ask for a side of ranch too Nomzilla Sushi Etc: Nashville hot bao buns.

Otaku Ramen: hot chicken bao buns, hot chicken tofu buns.

Party Fowl: hot chicken poutine; hot chicken nachos; hot chicken chorizo queso Slow Burn: SB hot chicken egg roll.

Tansuo: Nashville hot chicken lo mein.

Third and Home: hot chicken ranch dipping sauce served with fried pickle spears.

Soups/Salads

Sea Salt: Nashville hot chowder

Entrees

Brave Idiot (pop up): Nashville hot chicken birria tacos — available at some select pop-up events (find on Instagram) Edley’s BBQ: hot Nashville-style BBQ Ella’s on 2nd: Nashville Hot Cauliflower Steak with chickpeas, cucumber salad, and yogurt “ranch”

Germantown Pub: Nashville hot burger with a signature spice rub, homemade pickles, pico de gallo, pepper jack cheese, and crowned with a fried jalapeno The Goat SoBro: Nashville hot oyster tacos Grandaddy’s Famous Hot Chicken: hot chicken fried rice; hot chicken stuffed potato.

Hachland Hill: Nashville hot smoked chicken salad po’boy, honey-hot smoked leg quarters with “woo girl” ranch, available by request and dining by appointment only.

Lucky Bastard Saloon’s Nashville Hot Chicken Shack: Nashville hot grilled cheese filled with hot chicken, mac and cheese, cheddar, and Provolone cheeses The Mainstay: Nashville hot pepperoni and cheese pizza — a traditional pepperoni pie, but upgrade it with Nashville Hot Seasoning.

Nomzilla Sushi Etc: the NomFerno roll features their take on hot chicken with cucumber, pickled red onion, and spicy ranch.

Party Fowl: Nashville hot chicken and beignets; hot chicken Cuban sandwich; hot chicken fried chicken with mashed potatoes, sawmill gravy, and collard greens.

Red’s 615: hot chicken mac and cheese crunchwrap is a toasted tortilla filled with hot chicken, pimento mac and cheese, bacon, pickles, and comeback sauce; hot chicken mac and cheese bowl.

Slow Burn Hot Chicken: hot chicken donut sandwich; breakfast burrito; hot chicken tender and apple fritter sandwich; SB mac and hot chicken bowl.

Velvet Taco: a Vegetarian-friendly take — a Nashville hot crispy tofu taco garnished with napa slaw, ranch crema, and house brined pickles on a flour tortilla.

Desserts

Party Fowl: Nashville hot doughnut, served only during weekend brunch in collaboration with Status Dough.

Drinks

The Ainsworth: The “big a$$ hot chicken bloody mary” is a 32-ounce glass featuring Tito’s vodka, the Ainsworth’s hot bloody mary mix, topped with a whole fried Nashville hot young chicken, bacon strips, olives, celery, cherry tomatoes, and a waffle.

Fat Kat Slim’s: Fat Bloody Mary with Moskovskaya vodka, Walker’s spicy Bloody Mary mix, celery, pickle, bacon The Goat SoBro: hot chicken bloody mary.

Party Fowl: The hot chicken party hotspot may be known for its massively decked-out bloody mary, but there’s also a hot chicken take on the basic brunch drink. Party Fowl’s BNA bloody mary comes with a choice of walkers bloody mary mix or Nashville hot bloody mary mix and Nashville’s own Pickers Vodka.