Hattie B’s founders Nick Bishop Sr. and Nick Bishop Jr. are a pair of actually busy chicken-slingers. On Wednesday they have been in Plano, Texas, celebrating the opening of their seventeenth location, and on Wednesday, June 24, they’ll swing the doorways open at HB18 after they land in East Nashville at 1206 Gallatin Ave.
I spoke with them each a few weeks again, they usually have been extraordinarily excited concerning the alternative. Nick Jr. informed me this latest outpost has been a very long time coming.
“We’ve had alternatives in East Nashville many instances earlier than, however we wished to do it in a approach like we by no means have.”
He shares that Hattie B’s has had good success in suburban markets the place they will develop into a part of a neighborhood of households and different companies. This location on the East Aspect suits that description effectively. The previous laundromat is surrounded by a reasonably dense neighborhood of residential properties, offering loads of potential sizzling hen clients and foot site visitors. It additionally comes with a singular function, a Quonset hut/hangar in the back of the property.
“Once I noticed that house within the again,” Nick Jr. recollects, “it instantly felt like a spot for households to hold. So we’re going to have a placing inexperienced, bocce, pinball and pool. We wish it to be snug and tremendous informal.”
Nick Bishop Sr. and Nick Bishop Jr.
Hattie B’s doesn’t function with cookie-cutter specs for his or her places. The Bishops have opened outposts within the former properties of different eating places, in a on line casino meals court docket, as a brand new construct at Fifth + Broad, on the airport and at Geodis Park. In order that they’re not afraid to strive new issues which can be applicable to the neighborhood they’re getting into.
The principle eating room within the former Coin Specific Laundry might be greater than 3,200 sq. toes, with seating for about 70 folks. Moreover, a 1,400-square-foot patio between the 2 buildings will add much more house. The hangar house contributes one other 2,500 sq. toes and 62 extra seats, making this the biggest Hattie B’s property within the Bishops’ sizzling hen empire.
The property additionally options on-site parking (so that you received’t must sneak down from Publix), and the hangar has been purposefully transformed to host sports activities watch events and supply house for reside neighborhood music and native occasions. Nick Jr. invitations neighborhood teams who assume they could want house to host occasions to achieve out as soon as the restaurant opens.
“We knew there would come a time after we wished to carry Hattie B’s to this facet of city, however we additionally knew we needed to present up the proper approach,” says Nick Jr. “I believe we have achieved that by opening with an unbelievable, skilled crew. One in all our managers is transferring from our West Nashville location — he’s been with us since that restaurant, our second, opened 12 years in the past. We’ve additionally constructed a singular communal house particularly designed for locals, households and neighbors to come back collectively and hang around.”
There are a number of explanation why Hattie B’s waited so lengthy to cross the river, and Nick Jr. informed me that a part of it was out of respect for the OGs of sizzling hen like Bolton’s and Prince’s who’ve had a longtime presence in that a part of city. After a dozen years and after a lot inhabitants development within the space, the Bishops lastly really feel just like the time is correct.
Nick Jr. says: “It’s deeply significant to us to open one other restaurant in our hometown. We’re right here to be good stewards of the new hen group and the colourful East Nashville group.”
Working hours might be Sunday by way of Thursday 10:45 a.m. till 10 p.m. and 10:45 a.m. till midnight on Friday and Saturday.
Hattie B’s 2026 charitable accomplice is The Busyhead Mission, which receives $1 from each order of Shut the Cluck Up! offered. For extra info, go to hattieb.com or observe Hattie B’s on Instagram, Fb and TikTok.
