Rodney Scott's Whole Hog BBQ

James Beard Award-Winning Pitmaster Brings Rooftop Barbecue to Downtown | Eater Nashville

"This new barbecue restaurant from James Beard Award–winning pitmaster Rodney Scott is slated to open in downtown Nashville on Friday, April 5, inside Chief’s at 200 Broadway. It leans on Scott’s South Carolina upbringing and Carolina-influenced techniques, with a menu that includes pork skin nachos topped with pulled pork, white sauce, and serrano peppers; smoked chicken wings; catfish served with hushpuppies; and a Carolina whole hog mopped with Scott’s vinegar pepper sauce, plus desserts such as banana pudding and apple and chocolate hand pies. Backed by the Pihakis Restaurant Group and Scott—who grew up around his family’s lauded whole-hog barbecue restaurant in Hemingway, South Carolina and was named Best Chef Southeast by the James Beard Foundation in 2018—the concept carries over his family’s slow-cooking, hot-coals method and places pit-cooked meats at the center. The venue will occupy the top two floors of Chief’s overlooking Broadway, include a rooftop “Hell of a Q” with a special late-night menu (11 p.m.–2:30 a.m. rooftop only), and offer a ground-floor walk-up window serving breakfast through dinner starting at 8 a.m.; regular hours will be 10:30 a.m.–11 p.m. daily with Saturday and Sunday brunch from 10:30 a.m.–2 p.m." - Jackie Gutierrez-Jones