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Nashville hot chicken and Southern classics

Hot chicken is the dish Nashville is known for, and the heat is the point: order a level lower than your pride suggests. A few Southern kitchens round it out.

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Chen Chen’s Nashville Hot Chicken

Near Midtown. Hot chicken.

130 19th Ave N

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Firebeak

Near the Gulch. Hot chicken.

514 Rep. John Lewis Way S

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Daddy's Hot Chicken

Lebanon Pike. Hot chicken.

2543 Lebanon Pike

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Joyce’s Barbecue And Hot Chicken

Clarksville Pike. Soul food, scored 8.6 on The Infatuation.

2012 Clarksville Pike

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Wendell Smith’s

53rd Avenue North. A meat-and-three kitchen scored 7.9.

407 53rd Ave

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Falla The Smoke

28th Avenue North. Jamaican smoke, scored 7.8.

943 28th Ave N

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Martin’s Bar-B-Que Joint

Downtown. Whole-hog barbecue.

410 4th Ave S

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Pancake Pantry

Breakfast, for the line as much as the pancakes.

220 Molloy St

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