Food & Wine<\/a> for its famous Southern Fried Chicken.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n
Originally located on Federal Street before moving to Phila Street after the Congress Street revitalization in the 1960s, Hattie\u2019s has been an unlikely Saratoga staple since 1938. Serving down-home, southern dishes from white plates placed on red-checkered tablecloths, Hattie\u2019s is all Southern charm in the heart of the Northeast.<\/p>\n
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Hattie, the restaurant\u2019s original owner and namesake, was a true child of the South, born around the turn of the twentieth century in the small plantation town of Saint Francisville, Louisiana. Hattie left Louisiana as a young woman to work in Chicago, eventually accepting employment with the Staley family, with whom she spent winters in Miami and summers in Saratoga Springs.<\/p>\n
Luckily for us, Hattie chose to open her chicken shack in Saratoga Springs and soon became an integral part of the community. In the summers, 1930s and 40s Saratoga Springs was a happening spa city with speakeasies, gambling, and \u2013 of course \u2013 horse racing. Hattie\u2019s good Southern cooking appealed to vacationing families from the South and awakened an appetite for soul food amongst their northern friends and neighbors.<\/p>\n
Today, Hattie\u2019s still serves the original recipe chicken along with a menu that wouldn\u2019t be out of place in the founder\u2019s hometown. With bayou favorites like jambalaya, gumbo, and soft shell crab intermingled with the kinds of flavors you might find coming out of Paula Dean\u2019s kitchen \u2013 slow-cooked ribs, blackened catfish, and plenty of collards, to name a few \u2013 the 76-year-old restaurant stays true to its roots, bringing back locals and summer visitors year after year.<\/p>\n
Sources:<\/strong><\/p>\nAbout Hattie’s Restaurant – http:\/\/hattiesrestaurant.com\/about\/<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Long a local favorite, in the past few years Hattie\u2019s of Saratoga Springs has been receiving national recognition from Food & Wine for its famous Southern Fried Chicken. Originally located on Federal Street before moving to Phila Street after the Congress Street revitalization in the 1960s, Hattie\u2019s has been an unlikely Saratoga staple since 1938. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":150,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-food-news"],"yoast_head":"\r\n
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