Ordering takeout pizza in Nashville from Two Boots means working out two things before you call: how much heat your group actually wants, and what’s going to survive the trip back. Those aren’t the same question, and the second one catches people out more often than the first.
This is an ordering guide for takeout from 1925 Broadway — what to get, how hot each thing really is, what travels and what doesn’t, and what to have on hand if you order The Kitty and underestimate it.
Key takeaways
- The Kitty is the Nashville order. Hattie B’s hot chicken and jalapeños on a white pie, with pickles on the side.
- Know the heat before you order. Several pies carry real heat, and that matters more when you’re feeding a group you can’t consult.
- Milk beats water for the burn — and it’s the protein doing much of the work, not just the fat.
- Whole pies travel better than slices. More mass holds heat, and the box does more work.
- The cornmeal-dusted crust resists steam in a closed box better than a softer base does.
- Where: 1925 Broadway in Midtown, open from 11am weekdays and until midnight Friday and Saturday.
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What to order, by who you’re feeding
The useful way to approach takeout pizza in Nashville is by group rather than by craving, because you’re ordering for people who aren’t standing next to you.
| Who you’re feeding | What to order | Why |
|---|---|---|
| People who want the Nashville thing | The Kitty | Hattie B’s hot chicken, jalapeños, white pie, pickles on the side |
| A group with mixed heat tolerance | One hot, one mild — The Kitty plus The Meg | Everyone eats without negotiating |
| Someone who’s never had Two Boots | The Bayou Beast | Shrimp, crawfish, andouille, jalapeños. The 1987 original |
| A table that wants nothing spicy | The Meg, or Grandma Bess | White four-cheese pie, or thin square Sicilian. Zero heat |
| Kids | Plain cheese, or Grandma Bess | Reliable floor, and Grandma Bess is the step up they’ll accept |
| A vegan in the group | V for Vegan, or Earth Mother | Real recipes, not subtractions. Earth Mother is the bridge order |
| Heat without hot chicken | The Bird | Buffalo chicken, blue cheese dressing, scallions, jalapeños |
| A crowd-pleaser nobody objects to | Cleopatra Jones | Sweet Italian sausage, roasted peppers, red onions |
The rule for any group over four: order one hot pie and one that isn’t. It costs nothing and it prevents the situation where half the group eats bread.
The Kitty, and how hot it actually is
Hattie B’s hot chicken on a white pie with jalapeños, named for Kitty Wells, with pickles served alongside. It’s the pie that makes this location Nashville’s rather than a transplanted New York menu with a different address.
It is also genuinely hot, and the pickles aren’t decoration — they’re the reset between bites. Order it and keep them.
The heat comes from capsaicin, the compound in chilli peppers that binds to receptors on your tongue and tells your brain it’s been burned. Which brings up the practical question: what do you drink with it?
Not water. Capsaicin doesn’t dissolve in water, so a glass of it mostly redistributes the problem.
Milk works, and the reason is more interesting than the folk explanation. The standard account is that fat cuts the burn. Research from Penn State food scientists suggests that’s an oversimplification — in controlled tests at the university’s Sensory Evaluation Center, full-fat milk was not more effective than fat-free milk at cooling the burning sensation, which points to protein playing a real role alongside fat. The lead researcher noted the implication runs beyond chilli enthusiasts into how food manufacturers should think about protein-capsaicin interactions.
The practical takeaway for a takeout order: dairy of some kind beats water, and skim is not a downgrade. If you’re ordering The Kitty for a group, having milk, yogurt, or something dairy-based in the fridge is a better plan than more beer.
What travels and what doesn’t
The gap between the counter and your kitchen is where takeout pizza in Nashville succeeds or gets soggy.
| The pie | Why | Travels? |
|---|---|---|
| Grandma Bess | Thin square Sicilian, low moisture, sturdy | Excellent |
| Plain cheese | Nothing to go soft | Excellent |
| Cleopatra Jones | Sausage, peppers, onions — drier toppings | Very good |
| The Meg | White pie, four cheeses, roasted garlic | Good |
| V for Vegan | Artichokes, onions, shiitake, two pestos | Good |
| The Bird | Buffalo chicken, blue cheese dressing | Good, but eat it sooner |
| The Kitty | Hot chicken holds, but the crust is better fresh | Fair — best within 15 minutes |
| The Bayou Beast | Shrimp and crawfish don’t improve on a drive | Fair |
Two mechanical notes. Crack the box open for a minute when you get home — a closed box traps steam and that steam is what softens the crust from underneath. And don’t stack boxes on the passenger seat; the bottom one arrives compressed.
The cornmeal-dusted crust helps here more than most. It gives the base a grainy crunch that resists steam better than a soft dough, which is the single most common failure in takeout pizza generally.
Sizing the order
Whole pies come in 10, 14, and 18 inch, and slices are available too.
Whole pies beat slices for takeout. More mass holds heat longer, and a box protects a pie better than it protects four loose slices.
For a group over five with mixed tastes, two 14-inch pies beat one 18-inch. The instinct is to order one large and let everyone pick around it. In practice that means the vegan eats crust and somebody who wanted mild ends up with hot chicken.
For two people, a 10-inch each is cleaner than splitting a 14-inch, and it travels well.
Add garlic knots. They’re the thing people eat while the pizza is being unboxed, and they’re the cheapest way to make an order feel bigger than it is.
Rough quantities: two to three slices per adult for a normal dinner, three to four if it’s a long evening with people grazing.
Ordering ahead versus walking in
Call ahead for anything over about five people. A twelve-slice order with modifications is faster on the phone than at a counter at 6:30, and it means the pizza is coming out of the oven when you arrive rather than when you finish ordering.
Order online if you want the accuracy — a complicated order with several pies and modifications is easier to get right typed than read aloud over a busy counter.
Walk in for two or three people, or for slices. It’s fast and there’s no reason to plan it.
Ordering for a group you can’t consult
Most takeout orders are placed by one person on behalf of several, and that’s where they go wrong. You can’t poll six people in a group chat and get an answer inside ten minutes, so the order has to be built to absorb disagreement rather than resolve it.
Cover the heat range, not the average. The instinct is to pick something in the middle that nobody objects to. In practice that produces a pie the heat-seekers find boring and the heat-averse still find warm. One clearly hot pie and one with none works better than two medium ones.
Assume one dietary restriction you didn’t know about. Somebody in any group of six has stopped eating something since you last fed them. A vegan pie covers more of that ground than any other single choice — Earth Mother reads as a straightforward veggie pie, so it doesn’t sit untouched if the restriction turns out not to exist.
Order one boring pie on purpose. Plain cheese or Grandma Bess is the thing that gets eaten when everything else turns out to be wrong for somebody. It’s insurance, and it’s never wasted.
Round up on quantity, round down on variety. Three pies of two types feeds a group better than two pies of three types, because half-portions of unfamiliar things don’t get finished.
Send the heat warning with the food. If The Kitty is in the order, tell people before they pick up a slice. The pickles on the side are a signal, but not everyone reads it.
When you can get it
The kitchen opens at 11am Monday through Friday and noon at weekends.
It closes at 9pm Sunday through Thursday, and runs to midnight on Friday and Saturday — which is the genuinely useful window in a neighbourhood where most kitchens shut earlier. If you’re picking up after something in Midtown, that’s your slot.
Weekday lunch is the quietest service and the easiest pickup of the week. If you’re feeding an office nearby, that’s the time to call.
Our Nashville late-night guide covers the evening timing in more detail, and the what-to-order guide goes deeper on the menu itself.
Where you’re actually going
Two Boots Nashville is at 1925 Broadway, in Midtown, in the building that used to house The Great Escape record store, at the point where 21st Avenue splits into Broadway and Division.
That’s about a mile and a half from Lower Broadway — closer to Vanderbilt, Belmont, and Music Row than to the honky-tonk strip. Worth knowing before you set off, because “Broadway” means two very different places in this city and only one of them is a short walk from downtown hotels.
For pickup, the Midtown location is the easier of the two propositions: less congestion than downtown, and a shorter wait for a parking spot on most evenings.
Reheating what’s left
Oven or toaster oven at 375°F for eight to ten minutes. The best method — it drives moisture out and firms the base back up.
Covered skillet on medium for four or five minutes. Underrated. The dry pan crisps the bottom while the lid steams the cheese.
Air fryer at 350°F for three to four minutes. Fast and effective.
Not the microwave, unless speed beats everything else. It produces hot, limp pizza and there’s no recovering the crust.
One note specific to The Kitty: hot chicken reheats better in an oven than anywhere else, and it does not benefit from a microwave at all.
Order takeout at 1925 Broadway
For takeout pizza in Nashville, Two Boots is at 1925 Broadway in Midtown. Whole pies in three sizes, slices, garlic knots, a full vegan menu, and gluten-free crust.
Order online for pickup, or call (615) 340-4343 for a group order you want ready when you arrive. The Nashville location page has current hours and the full menu.
Frequently asked questions
What should I order for takeout pizza in Nashville?
The Kitty if you want the local specialty — Hattie B’s hot chicken and jalapeños on a white pie, pickles on the side. Pair it with something without heat, like The Meg or Grandma Bess, so everyone in the group can eat. For travel, drier pies hold up better than saucy or seafood ones.
How spicy is The Kitty?
Genuinely hot. It uses Hattie B’s hot chicken plus jalapeños, and the pickles served alongside are there to reset your palate between bites. If you’re ordering for a group with mixed heat tolerance, order a mild pie alongside it.
What helps with the heat from spicy pizza?
Dairy, not water. Capsaicin doesn’t dissolve in water, so water mostly spreads it around. Milk works — and research from Penn State suggests protein plays a real role alongside fat, with full-fat milk proving no more effective than fat-free in controlled testing. Yogurt and other dairy work on the same principle.
Which pizzas travel best for takeout?
Drier, lower-moisture pies. Grandma Bess, plain cheese, and Cleopatra Jones hold up well. Seafood pies like the Bayou Beast and the hot chicken on The Kitty are better eaten sooner rather than later. Cracking the box open for a minute when you get home keeps the crust from steaming soft.
Do you have vegan and gluten-free options for takeout?
Yes to both. Around eight distinct vegan builds using non-dairy cheese and vegan ricotta, and gluten-free crust is available. Ask about shared prep and oven handling if the gluten restriction is celiac.
How much pizza should I order per person?
Two to three slices per adult for a normal dinner, three to four for a long evening with grazing. For a group over five with mixed tastes, two 14-inch pies work better than one 18-inch.
