Houston Hot Chicken: A Delicious Southern Utah Chain!

Houston Hot Chicken is a brand new chicken restaurant in town with some of the coolest vibes, nicest employees, and some of the best chicken in town! I was invited to a special event last weekend where I was able to sample some of the food.

Here is my SUPER HONEST Food Review of Houston Hot Chicken in St. George:

VIBES:

This place has great vibes. The employees are nice, the art work inside is interest, unique and cool, and the seating isn't cramped. You can sit at tables, picnic tables style tables, and also some bench seating.

FOOD:

I ordered the Three Tenders & Fries, Two Slushy Lemonades, and a Waffle Shake.

TENDERS & FRIES:

These tenders are BIG BOYS. They're juicy, thick, and really good! On the Chicken Tenders, you order them with a specific spice that you want. These spices also have Scoville Unit scores attached. The Scoville scale ranges with SPICIER items carrying a higher number on the scale.. The spices that they offer are:

• No Spice (0 Scoville Heat Score)
• Honey Butter (0 Scoville Heat Score)
• Mild (10,000 Scoville Heat Score)
• Medium (30,000 Scoville Heat Score)
• Spicy (150,000 Scoville Heat Score)
• Liftoff (600,000 Scoville Heat Score)
• Houston We Have A Problem (2,000,000 Scoville Heat Score) (SignedWaiver Required To Eat)

I have the mouth of a 3 year old girl. I'm not great with spice... I ordered the Honey Butter (SO DELICIOUS). With the Tenders comes Crinkle Cut Fries (My least favorite fry ever), pickles, and two sides of their House Sauce. Their House Sauce has a sweetness, but also a bit of a kick of heat. THAT ALONE was enough spice for me, that I needed water close by. These Crinkle Cut Fries are spiced and SERIOUSLY AMAZING. These fries might even be better than the tenders, and that's really saying something! I dipped the fries and chicken into their House Sauce and it was awesome! Definitely recommend.

SLUSHY LEMONADE:

I got two of the house-made lemonades. You can get them as normal lemonades or Slushy. I got both as Slushy. They have different flavors on these lemonades as well.

• Cucumber Watermelon
• Strawberry Hibiscus 
• Blueberry Lavender

I got the Strawberry Hibiscus and the Blueberry Lavender. Both lemonades were good, but I was a BIG FAN of the Strawberry Hibiscus. I liked this one a lot.

BURNED MY MOUTH OFF:

I also got to try a chicken tender with the "SPICY" level spice on it. Again, like I mentioned before... I can't handle heat. I have the mouth of a 3-year old girl. I took the TINIEST BITE of this and it was so spicy it almost ruined my entire night! Okay, maybe not that far, but I COULD NOT BELIEVE how spicy this really was. The heat stayed in my mouth for like 20 minutes, and I needed something to kill the heat... And I found it.

WAFFLE SHAKE:

This shake looks amazing, right? It's vanilla ice cream with syrup and actual pieces of waffle right inside of it! With how incredible it looked, I wanted it... But that quickly turned into I NEEDED IT to combat the spice going on in my mouth. A Milkshake should help... right? Indeed, it did help. But it was so delicious. The vanilla ice cream and syrup was so good, but also so messy, and the waffle pieces were soft and perfect.

The employees were nice and very welcoming at HHC. They were always checking to see if we were enjoying the food and if we needed anything.

Houston Hot Chicken has been open to the public since Sunday. I'm writing this Tuesday, and I've already been to the restaurant three times, and eaten there twice. I will definitely be back a third time. Whether you can handle heat or not, you should give HHC a try before bashing them about being "Another Chicken Restaurant" in town. These guys are going to be here for a while.

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