Whole catfish or whiting fillets cornmeal-fried and basted in a heavy cayenne-and-lard slick, stacked on white bread with pickles. The North Nashville hot-fish answer to hot chicken.
Bolton Matthews opened Bolton's Spicy Chicken and Fish on Main Street in East Nashville in 1997 with his wife Dolly, using the family hot-chicken recipe of his late uncle Bolton Polk (who had cooked at Prince's). The hot fish is Dolly's branch innovation: the same cayenne-and-lard slick from the hot chicken poured over cornmeal-fried whiting or catfish, stacked on white bread with pickles and queued out the door at lunchtime.
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