Hattie B's Hot Chicken is an American restaurant

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based in

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, founded by a father and son, both named Nick Bishop. The company specializes in

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, a fried chicken dish, and operates several restaurants in the

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The restaurant is named after three women in the Bishop family with the name Hattie. The company purveys

, a local specialty and

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of Nashville,

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, side dishes, desserts and other foods. The chicken is provided at various spice levels. The spiciest version of the hot chicken has been described as having a very marked, severe spiciness, and is prepared using

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s as an ingredient. The chicken is served with pickles and atop white bread, as per traditional local preparation methods. The original Hattie B's Hot Chicken opened in Midtown Nashville on August 9, 2012. A second location opened in June 2014 in West Nashville, a location in

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, opened in June 2016, and a third Nashville location opened in November 2017. A new location was opened in Midtown Memphis in April 2018. An Atlanta, Georgia, location opened in July 2018. In the fall of 2018, a location opened inside The Cosmopolitan in Las Vegas, Nevada. Their newest location was opened in Dallas, Texas, in February 2022. It is a

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, family-owned company.

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'' reviewed the restaurant in 2017. In 2017, it was ranked sixth on

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's list of America's 75 Best Fried Chicken Spots.

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