Midweek Odds and Ends: Hare, Chicken and Man

Nashville Restaurants and Food
Hare, Chicken and Man

The Nashville Scene Bites blog is reporting on the opening of the new Wild Hare restaurant in West Nashville. The menu is focused on locally grown and an eclectic mixture of styles. Early eaters Chris Chamberlain from the Scene and Lesley from Lesley Eats report that it will be an informal and fun atmosphere. It sounds like a winning combination to us. You can follow the Wild Hare on their facebook page. Right now they've just opened for lunch, but according to the Scene they do plan evening hours. We're excited to get out there ourselves and will report back soon.

The Wild Hare
316 White Bridge Road
Nashville
615-818-0219

The Nashville Hot Chicken Festival will return to East Park on July 4 for another scorcher of an event. They've added Pepperfire to the line-up, the East Nashville newcomer will serve up hot chicken alongside regulars Princes, Bolton's and 400 degrees. It's free samples for the first 500 people as usual (if you can brave the lines). Among many others Pied Piper Eatery and the Dog of Nashville are listed as vendors. It will be interesting to see what they cook up in the genre. The festival goes from 11am to 3pm and will feature the amateur cooking contest again. As always we expect the Yazoo beer tent to save the day when our brains start melting down due to the sun and all of that spice.

Finally, you've heard it many other places, but we agree it should be amusing to watch Man v. Food guy Adam Richman tonight take on hot chicken at Prince's. He loves the hot stuff and I would imagine that will be interesting at Prince's if he went for full heat. He also heads to Roosters Texas BBQ for that 72 ounce steak stuffing challenge. The Nashville edition of the show airs tonight at 8 p.m. on the Travel Channel.