[8] Other dishes served include mac and cheese, potato salad, braised-beans in ham hocks, hot fish, and soft-serve ice cream.

[10] The interior of the restaurant's Gertrude Street store is designed to resemble a Nashville diner, with a big stool-studded bar.

[3] The chain was founded by three people, Miranda Campbell, Reno Pontonio and Morgan McGlone, a former model minder for Lily Cole; who later trained as a chef.

After returning to Australia he partnered with Miranda Campbell who took over a store on Gertrude St Melbourne's suburb of Fitzroy under the name 'Belle's Diner';[11] and rebranded it as 'Belles Hot Chicken'.

[3] In her review for the Sydney Morning Herald, Myffy Rigby said: "To my mind, you can pretty easily skip the leg meat, which doesn't yield the same level of crunch, juiciness and intensity of flavour as the wings, which you should definitely double order".