Chicken-and-rolls restaurant bakes up a winner near AT&T Stadium in Arlington
What if I told you Arlington has a new hot chicken restaurant?
I know — there’s almost one on every corner.
But what if I told you Arlington has a new restaurant with old-time East Texas yeast rolls with honey, house-made cinnamon rolls and strawberry lemonade or watermelon lemonade?
Now, that’s more like it.
So maybe Mary Sue’s Hot Chicken & Dough, 816 N. Collins St., has it backward. Maybe the new “Nashville hot” chicken restaurant near AT&T Stadium should be Mary Sue’s Bread & Chicken.
The spicy chicken “tender bites” are good — two or three bites each, larger than a nugget, like a nibble of a tender with a light, spicy coating, not some heavy chunk of fried crust.
They come in a quarter-pound, half-pound or 3/4-pound order ($8.99-$16.99 as a combo with a side, pickle, roll and drink). Or order a “pickle stick” with chicken and a pickle spear fried together.
That’s the entire menu: chicken, plus yeast rolls, cinnamon rolls or “dough babies,” like large doughnut holes.
It’s a chicken restaurant, not a sports bar. The sole reason to go is to eat hot rolls and chicken and drink good lemonade.
It’s perfectly positioned to sell lemonade to tailgate parties on hot football game days or lunches to families looking for something besides burgers and barbecue.
Mary Sue’s is from Hunt County pitmaster and caterer Eddie Deen, known for serving lunch to thousands at Texas and presidential inaugurations. There’s another location in Forney.
Mary Sue’s in Arlington is open for lunch and dinner daily except Sunday; 817-261-5798, facebook.com.
