This is Gonna Be Good: Nashville Eats: Prince's Hot Chicken

Tuesday, January 09, 2007

Nashville Eats: Prince's Hot Chicken

Now on to the real food in Nashville. I saw this place listed on Hollyeats.com -- actually he had so many good-looking places, we just had to pick a couple and go for it. Prince's Hot Chicken: I love fried chicken and I love spicy food, so the thought of hot spicy fried chicken - how could I resist?

Clearly this place is a local favorite -- when we got there, every seat was taken and a line of people the length of the restaurant were waiting for their orders. You could order your chicken mild, medium, hot and X-hot. I read in a Nashville free weekly that mild would make you break into a sweat, so we opted for hot. A woman in front of us in line concurred -- she said the extra-hot was just painful.

We ordered a 1/2 chicken hot with baked beans and waited, and we waited, and we waited. An hour and a 1/2 later and still waiting, and the people coming in just never stopped. Finally got our chicken and ate it back in our hotel room, just tearing it apart. Man, it was worth the wait -- spice all over our face and hands, lips feeling the lingering burn, white bread to cool the heat and sop up all the sauce.

We head out in search of a milkshake after that, again on a Holly recommendation, but no dice -- the Elliston Place Soda Shop was closed. Too bad, the place looked cool.