The menu is somewhat limited, so you only have a few choices to make
when you get up to the counter to order. I like that concept for a restaurant- figure
out what you're good at and do just that. I don't care about having a huge
selection of food on the menu, I just want it to taste good. So, first came the
ordering of the chicken. You choose small or large, white or dark. Then
you choose your heat. The heat levels range from Mild all the way up to
Shut The Cluck Up. Don't you just love that? We were forewarned that even the mild had some
heat, so that's what I went with. T had the medium, and almost
regretted it. We love spicy food, but Hattie B's don't mess around.
Then it was time to order our sides. We chose the baked beans, potato salad, pimento mac
and cheese, and southern greens and shared all four. I'm a collard
greens snob enthusiast, and these things were good. Cooked perfectly, not bitter, with just the right amount of pork flavor and a little bit of heat.
Potato salad and baked beans were also very good- pretty standard. And
the mac and cheese was awesome, but I've never met a mac and cheese that
wasn't.
This was a perfect way to start our trip, and it encouraged us to continue getting out of the downtown area for other meals. It's so easy to fall into those tourist traps on Broadway, but I know we would have regretted it. If we had been in Nashville for longer than 3 days, we would have definitely gone back to Hattie B's a second time, it was just that good!
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