{"id":128944,"date":"2025-08-08T11:45:13","date_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:45:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128944\/"},"modified":"2025-08-08T11:45:13","modified_gmt":"2025-08-08T11:45:13","slug":"main-bird-cooks-up-hot-chicken-at-new-washington-avenue-location","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/128944\/","title":{"rendered":"Main Bird cooks up hot chicken at new Washington Avenue location"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\t\t\t\tMain Bird, a popular hot chicken spot, opened a new location in Houston along Washington Avenue in early August.<\/p>\n<p><strong>At a glance<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Main Bird started in 2020 as a single food truck serving fully halal, Nashville-style hot chicken before growing into a multi-location restaurant across the Greater Houston area. The locally-owned business has seven other locations around Houston, including one in Montrose.<\/p>\n<p>The Washington Avenue restaurant is located inside apartment complex The Vic at Interpose.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"Main Bird Hot Chicken serves only halal food, which means it is prepared according to Islamic dietary laws. (Courtesy Main Bird via Facebook)\" height=\"960\" src=\"https:\/\/communityimpact.com\/uploads\/images\/2025\/08\/07\/379584.jpg\" class=\"include_body\" onerror=\"this.src=\" width=\"1440\"\/>Main Bird Hot Chicken serves only halal food, which means it is prepared according to Islamic dietary laws. (Courtesy Main Bird via Facebook)<strong>On the menu<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>The restaurant sells a variety of hot chicken plates, from tenders and sandwiches to fries. Options include:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Slider meal: 2 sliders of your choice served with seasoned fries. Sliders are served on a toasted bun with pickles, slaw and house sauce<\/li>\n<li>Tender meal: 2 tenders served on toast, with seasoned fries, pickles and house sauce<\/li>\n<li>Cluck it up: Waffle fries topped with chopped tenders, pickles and choice of sauce<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Customers can also order the Bird Wrap meal, with tenders wrapped in a flour tortilla, or the Dirty Mac, which includes waffle fries, tenders and mac n cheese.<\/p>\n<p>There are six spice levels to choose from ranging from no spice to the hottest level called Cluck It. Milkshakes and soft drinks are also on the menu.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;&gt;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Main Bird, a popular hot chicken spot, opened a new location in Houston along Washington Avenue in early&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":128945,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5130],"tags":[28577,78697,4345,78699,78698,10447,18293,358,3187,20812,57750],"class_list":{"0":"post-128944","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-houston","8":"tag-community-impact","9":"tag-hot-chicken","10":"tag-houston","11":"tag-is-it-open","12":"tag-main-bird","13":"tag-montrose","14":"tag-near-me","15":"tag-texas","16":"tag-tx","17":"tag-update","18":"tag-washington-avenue"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/114992980120553577","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128944","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=128944"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/128944\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128945"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=128944"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=128944"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=128944"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}