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The sandwich wasn't spicy. I'd call it "Southernfied" which is the lowest on the Pepperfire heat level ranking. The pepperjack cheese wasn't super peppery, but it was absolutely decadent. Two sides and a few pickle slices come with the Peppercheese, so I chose apples and crinkle fries, which complemented it well. Other side options include fried okra, collard greens, red potato salad or baked beans. [read more]

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One of the most popular hot chicken spots in Music City is East Nashville’s Pepperfire. It all started when someone told owner Isaac Beard to try Nashville Hot Chicken 20 years ago and it’s been in his blood ever since. Beard works hard to make sure his hot chicken stands out from the rest. [read more]

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Even if you're the type who douses everything in hot sauce — the kind of maniac who snacks on raw habaneros, just to mess with people, and considers the Carolina Reaper Challenge a true test of machismo — you probably can't eat this chicken sandwich without tearing up. And, most likely, requesting a gallon of milk ... and your mama. [read more]

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His second stop is at local hot chicken favorite Pepperfire where chef-owner Isaac Beard whipped up a new menu dish that is a super-sizing of an item that was already pretty mondo to start with, the AppleJack. The Battle Royale is a quadrupled AppleJack, four deep-fried grilled cheese sandwiches, almost two pounds of hot chicken tenders and 1.3 pounds of cinnamon apples all stacked atop one another. Pepperfire suggests that diners tackle this particular dish as a team effort [read more]

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When Isaac Beard opened his Pepperfire Hot Chicken diner in East Nashville, Tennessee, there were only three or four other hot chicken diners in town. And the hot chicken craze was a strictly Nashville thing. Today, partly thanks to national TV cooking shows, the spicy-hot chicken craze has spread across the country. Join Beard as he talks about the history of Nashville’s XX Hot chicken craze. He also shares some of his house specialties like the Pepper-Cheese deep-fried grilled che… (truncated)

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One of those creative dishes that caught Denny’s attention was “The Battle Royale,” a dish developed at Pepperfire Hot Chicken in Nashville. “It’s deep-fried grilled cheese, hot chicken, and apple pie topping,” Denny said. “It’s something you would look at and think that it’s just ridiculous, that those things just don’t go together. But then you taste it and – ohmigod, it’s amazing. That’s what our show is about. We’re trying to find things that haven’t been done to death.” Another… (truncated)

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Each month, Chef Jon Ashton goes to a different city to learn about all the cuisine America has to offer. This month he visited Nashville to try the newest craze: hot chicken! [read more]

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#1: Pepperfire Hot Chicken – Nashville At Nashville’s Pepperfire Hot Chicken, it’s a unique recipe that has everyone breathing fire. The Tender Royale is made with white-meat chicken tenders that are hotter than the hottest Buffalo wings. [read more]

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#2: Pepperfire, East Nashville Pepperfire boasts a heat level rivaled by very few. Seriously, its chicken is HOT. The recipe has a bit less breading than many other places in Nashville, and it works like a charm, bringing out the crispiness of the chicken particularly well [read more]

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News 2’s Justin Bruce dared to try Pepperfire’s XXL hottest hot chicken at their new east Nashville location. The restaurant opens its doors to the east Nashville community on Aug. 12. [read more]

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Soon after Isaac Beard tasted his first bite of hot chicken (at Prince's, naturally), the lingering lick of heat woke him up in the middle of the night -- like an addict, he craved that fiery crunch. Since then, he's sought out and eaten hot chicken almost every day for 14 years, perfecting his own recipe along the way... [read more]

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Hundreds gathered under cloudy skies Saturday to celebrate a dish that is “so Nashville:” hot chicken. This was the fifth year for the annual Hot Chicken Festival and Benefit in East Park. The event kicked off with the fire truck parade at 10:30 am. [read more]

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Ladies, we like it hot, do we not? We're not afraid of sweat and runny noses over a capsaicin-enriched meal. But there's something about Nashville's signature dish that draws in the man-beasts. There's something irresistible about the combination of food you eat with your hands that comes pre-infused with muy caliente spiciness. Plus, you get to eat at wooden picnic tables unadorned with so much as a roll of paper towels. If you're a guy who doesn't like hot chicken, you've definite… (truncated)

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Picture a pepper jack grilled cheese sandwich. Now take that picture and dump it in a deep fryer. Then top that gooey, crispy fried morsel with three infernally hot fried chicken tenders. Add a cooling swath of syrupy sweet apples that taste (intentionally) like they are straight from the apple pie filling can, and you’ve got a meal that’s worth the trip out to East Nashville. [read more]

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If the Nashville Sounds do indeed drop Ozzie (the cat/cougar?) as the team's official mascot for a hot chicken ( as speculated earlier this year), things could get awkward for our spicy poultry friend. It was announced today that Pepperfire Hot Chicken and the Sounds have signed an agreement to bring Pepperfire's hot chicken to First Tennessee Park in 2015 as "the official hot chicken provider of the Nashville Sounds..." [read more]