Fried Chicken News
Trendy new Nashville hot chicken restaurant rules the roost in Fort Worth
Nashville-style fried chicken is hot in more ways than one, and Fort Worth has a new place to get it: Rule The Roost is a newly opened restaurant in Westworth Village, serving this ultra-trendy, spicy-hot fried chicken.
A representative confirms that they opened on August 20.
Nashville-style hot chicken is, in fact, a signature of Nashville, Tennessee, with a light, crunchy crust and a special spicy fried coating that sneaks up on you, in a good way.
They're not the first to offer it in Fort Worth, where you can already find Nashville-style hot chicken at Gus's and Fixe, and more players are on the way.
At Rule the Roost, you can get it in a variety of configurations, including wings or tenders, but the prototypical version is in a sandwich, usually on white bread, sometimes with pickles.
Their sandwich comes on a hamburger bun, with sweet coleslaw and melted cheese. Thoughtfully, they offer the chicken at varying levels of spice, from 0 to 4 degrees, with some heat coming in even at Level 1.
They also do biscuits, plus sides such as mashed potatoes and waffle fries, very Chick-Fil-A, which you can get solo or loaded with chicken chunks and/or bacon.
The concept has been described by some as a spicy version of Chick-Fil-A, stoked further by the fact that they also offer strawberry lemonade.
The restaurant comes to Fort Worth by a circuitous route: The owners are from Tennessee and originally opened a location at a mall in San Jose as a test drive, before deciding that stand-alone locations were the way to go.
After Fort Worth, they have plans to open at least one more location in North Texas.
