Looking for Pizza Near Nashville? What to Order When You Visit

If you’re looking for pizza near Nashville, the honest question isn’t where — it’s what to order once you get there, because the menu at Two Boots on Broadway carries things you won’t find on a pizza menu anywhere else in the city. There’s a pie with Hattie B’s hot chicken on it. There’s one from 1987 with crawfish and andouille. There’s one named after Meg White.

This is an ordering guide. What to get on a first visit, what to get if you’re back, and how to size it for whoever you’re with.

Key takeaways

• Order The Kitty at least once. Hattie B’s hot chicken and jalapeños on a white pie, pickles on the side. It’s the pie that makes this location Nashville’s.
• The crust is cornmeal-dusted and Cajun-influenced. Grainy crunch on the bottom. Not a New York street slice, on purpose, since 1987.
• Slices let a group order four different things. No vote, no compromise, everyone eats at once.
• Three pie sizes — 10, 14, and 18 inch. The 10-inch is the one that travels.
• Heat is real on several pies, and it’s marked on the menu. The Kitty and the Bayou Beast are not bluffing.
• It’s Midtown Broadway, not Lower Broadway — 1925 Broadway, where 21st splits into Broadway and Division, closer to Vanderbilt than to the honky-tonks.

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First, where you’re going

Broadway in Nashville is long, and the version most visitors picture is the lower stretch with the neon and the boot stores. Two Boots is on the Midtown end at 1925 Broadway, past Music Row, in the building that used to house The Great Escape record store. It’s about a mile and a half from Lower Broadway.

That matters mostly for planning. If you’re staying near Vanderbilt or Music Row, it’s on your route. If your night is anchored downtown, it’s a short deliberate trip rather than a stumble.

Hours are the other planning detail: the kitchen runs to 9pm Sunday through Thursday and to midnight on Friday and Saturday.

What to order, by what you’re after

This is the table to screenshot.

If you want…	Order this	Notes
The Nashville thing	The Kitty	Hattie B’s hot chicken, jalapeños, white pie, pickles on the side. Spicy and the point of coming here
To understand what Two Boots is	The Bayou Beast	Spiced shrimp, crawfish, andouille, jalapeños. The original pie, from 1987
Heat without hot chicken	The Bird	Buffalo chicken, blue cheese dressing, scallions, jalapeños on a white pie
No heat at all	The Meg	White pie — provolone, parmigiano, ricotta, mozzarella, roasted garlic, oregano
Something simple and clean	Grandma Bess	Thin square Sicilian, San Marzano tomatoes, garlic, olive oil, basil, mozzarella
A reliable crowd-pleaser	Cleopatra Jones	Sweet Italian sausage, roasted peppers, red onions. Sausage-and-pepper hero on a pizza
Vegan	V for Vegan	Artichokes, red onions, shiitake mushrooms, two pestos, non-dairy cheese
Vegan that everyone will eat	Earth Mother	Spinach, roasted garlic, roasted peppers, wild mushrooms, red onion, marinara

If it’s a first visit and you only order two things, make it The Kitty and something calm — The Meg or Grandma Bess. The heat lands better with a landing spot next to it.

The two pies with stories

The Kitty

Hattie B’s hot chicken on a white pie with jalapeños, pickles served alongside, named for Kitty Wells. It’s the answer to the reasonable question of why anyone would come to Nashville for pizza: because this particular pizza couldn’t exist anywhere else.

It’s genuinely hot. The pickles aren’t a garnish — they’re the reset button between bites, and you’ll want them.

The Meg

Named for Meg White, and Two Boots supplies pizza to Third Man Records when they need it. It’s a white pie with four cheeses, roasted garlic, and oregano — no heat, no Cajun, nothing complicated.

It’s the one to order when the table has had enough spice, and the one that quietly gets finished first.

About that crust

Cornmeal-dusted, with a grainy crunch on the bottom that a standard New York slice doesn’t have.

Two Boots is named for the boot shapes of Italy and Louisiana, and the Louisiana half is real rather than decorative — crawfish, andouille, blackened seasoning, cornmeal. The Nashville location opened in June 2013 and has run the same playbook the brand started with in the East Village in 1987.

If you’re arriving expecting a foldable street slice, adjust the expectation. It’s a third thing, sitting somewhere between New York pizza and something Southern.

Sizing it for your group

Who you’re with	What to order	Why
Just you	Slices, or a 10-inch	The 10-inch is a personal pie and it travels if you’re heading somewhere
Two people, different tastes	Two or three slices each	No negotiation, no leftover half nobody wanted
Four, sharing	One 18-inch, or two 14-inch if tastes split	Two mediums beat one large whenever the group disagrees
A group with a vegan	Two 10-inch — one vegan, one not — or slices	Never one large pie with the vegan picking around it
Post-show on a Friday	Slices	Fastest format, and the kitchen is open till midnight
Bachelorette or tour group	Slices, ordered ahead	Twelve people at a counter deciding is worse than a phone call

The mistake people make with a group of six is ordering one 18-inch and letting everyone take what they want. In practice the vegan eats crust. Two smaller pies is the better structure even when it looks like more effort.

For the group with different diets

The vegan program is a parallel menu rather than a token pie. V for Vegan, Vegan Cleo, Super Vegan, Vegan Larry Tate, Vegan Mr. Pink, Vegan Tony Clifton, The VCBGB, and Earth Mother — different sauces, different builds, non-dairy cheese and vegan ricotta.

Gluten-free crust is available. If the restriction is celiac rather than preference, ask about shared prep and oven handling before ordering.

Earth Mother is the useful bridge order for a mixed group: it’s marked vegan and reads as a straightforward veggie pie, so non-vegans will eat it without noticing.

Timing your visit

Weeknights close at 9pm, so treat it as dinner rather than a late stop.

Friday and Saturday run to midnight, which is the real late-night window. Leaving a Midtown show at 10:30 puts you comfortably inside it. Leaving a Lower Broadway honky-tonk at last call does not.

Sunday closes at 9pm, same as weeknights.

For a group, calling ahead is worth it. A twelve-slice order with modifications is faster on the phone than at the counter.

Order at 1925 Broadway

Two Boots Nashville is at 1925 Broadway in Midtown, where 21st splits into Broadway and Division. Slices and pies in three sizes, a full vegan menu, gluten-free crust, dine-in, takeout, and delivery.

Call (615) 340-4343 if you’re feeding a group and want it ready when you arrive, order online if you’re picking up on the way somewhere, or walk in and read the board — half these pies have a story attached to the name.

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