123 Ewing Dr (North Nashville)Nashville, TN 37207(615) 226-9442
Categories: Hot Chicken, Soul Food
Serves: Lunch and Dinner
Entrée Price Range: Under $10.00
Features & Services: open late, handicap accessible, kid friendly, smoke free
The meat-and-three and cayenne pepper-spiced, skillet-fried chicken are Music City's truly indigenous foodstuffs, and North Nashville's appropriately named Prince's Hot Chicken Shack has long reigned as the crown royalty for the latter. Located in a nondescript strip mall, the now-legendary Prince's is owned by Andre Prince Jeffries, whose heritage in the kitchen dates to her great-uncle Thornton Prince, whose girlfriend reputedly invented this style of hot chicken as revenge when Thornton came home a little "too late" after a night of carousing. But whattaya know: He loved the stuff! The spartan restaurant has only five booths, and you'll wait from 20 to 45 minutes for your chicken (either a quarter dark or quarter white meat) to arrive, not long after it leaves the oversized cast iron skillet. (You may want to call ahead, but be patient when waiting for someone to answer the phone.) And trust us – order the medium if you think you want the hot; mild if you think you want the medium. No alcohol available. Cash only. Serving lunch and dinner Tue-Sat, late-night Fri–Sat. Closed Sun–Mon.
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With a growing number of top-flight contemporary restaurants, Music City remains a standard-bearer for home-style meat-and-three plates, as well as cayenne pepper-spiced, skillet-fried hot chicken.
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