Food Work’s owners Troy Sutton and Scott Adams will open another restaurant around the first week of November in the basement of the Tallan Building, former location of The Cellar Restaurant.

“It will be a bistro/lounge. A cocktail-centric evening place, but we’ll also serve a quality lunch that caters to firms in the building as well as other area businesses,” Mr. Adams said about the planned downtown Chattanooga eatery.

Food Works opened its doors on the North Shore in 2006. It was the first restaurant to establish a presence on Manufacturers Road.

The partners have not settled on a name for the restaurant, but Mr. Adams said it will “fill a niche that’s not common to this market and give Chattanooga a few more quality options.”

The menu is also in the planning stages, he said. It will be “very evolutionary and based on the freshest ingredients on the market,” Mr. Adams said.

The 8,000-square-foot eatery is expected to seat 150 with two additional private dining rooms that, when combined, can seat up to 150 guests. Tony Thompson of Birmingham, Ala., will create the new interior design.

“It’s going to have a very polished, but casual, innovative contemporary look,” Mr. Adams said.

Kim White, president and chief executive of Luken Holdings, owner of both the Krystal and Tallan buildings, said the restaurant will be a good fit for the variety of tenants in both buildings.

“We continually trying to upgrade the building and have a lot of high-end tenants and customers in that area where there are not a lot of restaurant choices,” she said.

In addition, she cited the soon-to-open Indigo Hotel in the Maclellan Building downtown, saying there will be a lot more people in the area looking for more upscale dining choices.

“It will be very advantageous for our clients to use the private dining rooms for meeting facilities,” Ms. White said.

Mr. Adams said it is mutually beneficial for both the restaurant and the building to have a high-quality restaurant in the space.

In addition to Food Works and the opening of the Tallan Building restaurant, Mr. Adams and Mr. Sutton plan to open Float, a 167-foot floating restaurant near Renaissance Park in early spring.

The restaurant will serve sushi and have a covered eating area as well as a large roof bar.

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