Yes, but the delivered version is a different experience from the one you get at the restaurant, and most honest hot chicken eaters would acknowledge the gap.
What Is Available for Delivery
Hattie B’s is available through delivery platforms including DoorDash. Multiple Nashville locations allow delivery orders, and the chicken travels reasonably well compared to the most transport-hostile foods. The crust softens during transit, as all fried food does, and the paste loses some of its immediacy because it is no longer on hot-from-the-fryer skin. The flavor is present but the textural contrast that makes the crust distinctive is diminished by the time it arrives.
Party Fowl, which serves hot chicken in a broader bar-food context including sandwiches and other applications, is on most major delivery platforms. Their format is slightly more delivery-friendly because the sandwich structure protects the chicken from direct container contact.
Several other Nashville hot chicken restaurants are intermittently available on platforms like DoorDash, Uber Eats, and Grubhub, though availability changes and smaller spots like Bolton’s and Prince’s are not consistently on delivery platforms.
The Quality Problem
Hot chicken is designed to be eaten immediately. The paste was applied to hot chicken specifically because the two elements need each other at temperature to interact properly. The bread underneath is supposed to absorb fresh-off-the-fryer drippings. Dill pickles served on delivery hot chicken are often soggy by arrival.
The time between cooking and eating matters more for hot chicken than for most foods. A fifteen-minute delivery means you are eating chicken that was removed from the oil fifteen minutes ago. At that point, the crust has already begun to steam inside the container, which is the enemy of crispiness. The paste remains but it has cooled and solidified somewhat, changing the way it behaves in the mouth.
What to Do Instead
If you are ordering for the experience of Nashville hot chicken, go to the restaurant. The on-site experience, specifically eating the chicken within minutes of it being fried, is the experience. If you are ordering because you are in a hotel or unable to travel and want something that approximates the flavor profile, delivery from Hattie B’s is a reasonable option.
One practical improvement: if you order delivery, request extra bread and pickles. When it arrives, heat the chicken briefly in an oven or air fryer at high temperature for three to five minutes before eating. This restores some of the crust integrity and warms the paste. It will not be the same as restaurant-fresh, but it will be better than eating it as delivered.
Hattie B’s also ships nationwide through Goldbelly, which involves a reheat kit. The format is designed for the experience to survive transit and reheating better than a standard DoorDash order.
Sources
- DoorDash, Hattie B’s Hot Chicken Nashville listings, https://www.doordash.com/store/hattie-b’s-hot-chicken-nashville-77061/
- Goldbelly, Hattie B’s nationwide shipping, https://www.goldbelly.com/restaurants/hattie-bs-hot-chicken
- Hattie B’s Hot Chicken, https://www.hattieb.com/