Depot 303 is easy to miss. There’s barely any signage on the Mulberry food hall. Its building is tucked away from the main roads, with nothing but a white walled, black steel beam exterior. It’s a simple, inconspicuous, and modest building—just the kind of place Joe Dodd wanted for this new food concept, Chicken and Pig.
Best known for his Nashville hot chicken brand King of the Coop, Dodd now takes up residence about an hour away from the Seminole Heights spot that brought him to local fame years ago.
Even though he’s still serving fried chicken in familiar cardboard boxes with a slice of potato bread, the product is vastly different from the unapologetically spicy tenders he was known for. With a new recipe completely reworked, Dodd said this is his best fried chicken ever…