Daves Hot Chicken - Naperville

I had a good food experience here. I ordered online and picked up instore but when I went in, there was standing room only. The place was packed with a couple people in line to order. I had the 2 tender meal with mac and cheese. The macaroni and cheese was good if not a little too wet. The tenders were cooked very well and were still moist on the inside. It is nice that you can order different things (spice levels) for each strip in your order. I ordered one Extra hot and the other Reaper hot. I would say the Reaper was hotter than the extra hot but in a different way. It seems like the extra hot relies heavily on the cayenne pepper for the source of heat as it was a very up front spicy heat to the chicken. I would say 7/10. The reaper used more than likely carolina reaper powder as it was very slow build up of HEAT. This was hotter than the extra hot but in a different profile. I would say that it was 8-8.5/10. Good stuff and would like to go back again.

Dave's Hot Chicken has a fun dinner feel to it. I went on a weekday for lunch and ordered the two piece tenders. The whole menu is very small and easy to figure out. I like the little stickers they put next to each tender as I ordered one medium and one Hot. The chicken was very good, with a great flavor on the crispy breading and nice big juicy chicken. The Hot is ligit hot and they still have two more levels of heat up from hot. I'm temped to order my next with no spice as the chicken was that good on it's own. I only recommendation is if they could upgrade the wonder bread to a Texas toast.

Pros: Great seasoning. Slider was cooked perfectly. Medium was a medium heat unlike places that are hot such as Port or Peri, for example. Cons: small portion for $15. Where?s the cheese? Looks like melted cheese was spread thin with a butter knife. Doesn?t look anything like the pictures they advertise on their menu. Small portion. Tenders were tiny. Slider is small. An average person with a decent appetite wouldn?t be satisfied. Chicken tender was dry, not horrible. Slider was better. Overall, Definitely give it a try as a lunch and not a last minute quick dinner.

First time here came in with high expectations after eating some Nashville hot chicken last week. Personally recommend getting the chicken sandwich because the slaw and cheese blend well with the chicken patty Tender they use on the sand which. The Tenders by themselves are too seasoned and over powered by the seasoning to eat alone. The side Mac and cheese was delicious no complaints with the chicken sandwich or Mac and cheese just don?t recommend tenders. The fries were well seasoned and cooked good take at Nashville hot but just too much seasoning.

We came here after a short hike at the Starved Rock State Park around 3pm. It was not too busy and the deco/music was cool. The cashier guy is super nice and made us feel welcome. We ordered #4 with 2 sliders and fries. The fried chicken slider (hot) hit the spot for us, and the fries was hot and crispy. I think the flavor was slight better than Chikfila, highly recommended!!