Howdy Hot Chicken

Saw this place many times when I drove on shepherds and finally decided to stop by.The place is emptied when I was there, I guessed due to the new burger opening across the street.Food wasn't bad. I ordered the medium spicy and it's sure did tingle my tongue The buns were toasted with butter so that was a plus for me.

If you're in a mood and feeling ROWDYOr if your clothes are crap and you're looking DOWDYOr if you're months behind on your P.O.S. AUDIOr if you're in Tulum but it's grey and CLOUDYOr if your Prem team just got bought by SAUDIOr if you're in Barca and you don't like GAUDII have a solution and I say it PROUDLYCome and get Hot Chicken here at HOWDYWHAT!Absolutely delicious hot chicken and I like it a little bit more than Barbie does and it's a little expensive but extremely spicy and extremely tasty and while it's not my favorite Hot Chicken in town it's still very much well worth a visit.I wanted pretty badly to like Howdy Hot Chicken, and in some ways I do like it, and I think it's one of the better hot chicken places I've been to outside Tennessee, but their hot is a little too hot in an uncomfortable way but not a tasty way. That's weird for me to say, I have everything far more spicy than 99% of people can handle, trust me (it's Barbi's influence mainly).I guess the sauces are a little - or a lot - too sweet for me. And don't get me started on the prices, although the large portions of chicken are pretty nice. But making the sandwiches sugary is something that the massive array of bastardized hipsterized hot chicken places by has done, and I don't appreciate it. I remember the old days of Nashville hot chicken - not a sprinkle of sugar in sight.I want this stuff, but I need to have this stuff in Tennessee, and so do you, to see what it's supposed to taste like. Hattie B's for example, local Nashville locations more than out of state locations. It was never sweet and it shouldn't be sweet. I don't know why everyone has to corrupt and pollute the recipe of traditional stuff around the country with massive doses of high fructose corn syrup.Other than that it's very tasty sandwich, good quality chicken, piping hot, and large and filling, although service at Sugar Land was not very nice to me at all, and the prices are pretty high. Service here at Shepherd was much better, so it rubbed me the right way. There can be a long-ish wait time, especially if a lot of uber and phone orders are before you. They do seem to prioritize online orders over dine-in customers. Very frustrating.For Sugar Land, I said it was a four star chain with some one star employees constantly messing up very expensive sandwiches, hence the 3 stars. The Shepherd location is much more reliable, hence I give the full 4, but they need to improve on the wait time and have even better service if they want that 5th star.

It was ok. It didn't seem to have much flavor. I don't know if it's because I am comparing to my recent trip to Nashville where I ate hot chicken. Maybe it's because it was late and not as fresh. I would try them again as it wasn't bad, just underwhelming. Hopefully, my memory of Nashville hot chicken won't confuse my expectations and let me not arrive 30 min before closing.

Made a stop out of disappointment that Trill burger was close. Made up in freshness and taste. Definitely will be back.

The inside of the this spot looks nice and is clean. Service was welcoming, helpful, and caring. Ordered multiple things from the menu, but they were out of their sautéed chicken, so it was replaced with fried chicken. It made the food a bit bland, but it was still okay.

Decided to try again. Successfully got a "no heat" meal that actually didn't have heat in it. But this time my loaded fries barely had any cheese so it's like I'm just eating plain fries with dry chicken on top. It's always something with this place apparently. Might have to just stop coming.

Okay chicken sandwich. The spice is really the only thing that gives this an character. The bread was cool. Chicken a bit thin even though long so you can cut and double the chicken to make the sandwich thicker but thin & fried this hard didn't make the chicken tender and juicy. It was a bit too dry for me. The loaded fries were blah also, basic canned nacho cheese sauce which was at the bottom of the plate only not on top of the fries. Not enough regular sauce but enough chicken. Fries could have been crispier the coleslaw was a nice and different touch but I wasn't blown away by any of it. Sandwich not worth $10 in my opinion. Eat here if you like but way better options out there, just saying.

This place is absolutely Delicious 100% recommended if your in the area stop and try it bc it will not disappoint! The customer service is also Great only bad thing was the restrooms where out of order.

This howdys was lowkey great, I enjoyed the food and service, even the environment itself was nice and calm. I brought my kids here and they also enjoyed it, they have different heat ratings which gave a good impression on my kids as well

If you get the hottest one you'll regret it and they don't exchange if it's to hot for you , I've gone to other places and have gotten a courtesy one but not here it was a clear no. Service is ok they take long to make it staff is just chillin not to helpful , the drink machine had no ice working . The ambiance quite no people place was dirty the trash over filled while the guy was on his phone sitting on a bucket towards the back by drink machine . I wouldn't come back food was fresh and ok nothing to be wowed about tables were dirty and trash over filled staff doesn't make it feel welcoming.