As far back as Jeffries remembers, the restaurant’s customers came from all walks of life, including country music singers who would leave the Ryman Auditorium and walk over to nearby Prince’s when it was located just a few blocks away. Prince’s moved around several times but was always located in predominately black Nashville neighborhoods. People knew about it, but they didn’t say it, they didn’t talk about it,” she says. “We’ve always been kind of in the background. MORE: Hot chicken pâté? Weird ways 'hot chicken' is showing up on menus in Nashville RANKED: The 5 best hot chicken places in Nashville
There’s a Hot Chicken Festival, a Fraternal Order of Hot Chicken Facebook page and a hot chicken cookbook.īut for a good 70 years, hot chicken wasn’t all that well known, Jeffries says. Even fast-food chain KFC got in on the action. The dish is being served in Chicago, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and at scores of Nashville restaurants. People from Australia and Italy take Uber rides straight from the airport to Prince’s tiny, six-booth restaurant at 123 Ewing Drive and the newer location at 5814 Nolensville Pike. The story of Prince’s has been told countless times in a city that in recent years has become synonymous with hot chicken. Prince set to work recreating the recipe and he found the dish popular enough with friends and family to warrant opening his first restaurant in the mid-1930s at 28th Avenue and Jefferson Street.
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