The BA Ramen features the restaurant’s ramen noodles, which are good as a late-night bar snack or meal. / Photo by Jake LottThrillist.com recently published a story detailing the Unofficial Bar Snack of Every State, and we thought we’d take a stab at picking an Even More Unofficial Bar Snack of Chattanooga.
The winners on their list for the tri-state area were fried crab claws in Alabama, boiled peanuts in Georgia and barbecue nachos in Tennessee. Their list, like ours, will no doubt raise eyebrows and questions, such as barbecue nachos in Tennessee? Aren’t nachos big everywhere? Like Buffalo wings?
And what is the difference between bar snacks and appetizers? We do not claim to know the answers to either, except nachos with ‘cue is delicious anywhere, and we are assuming whether you call it a bar snack or appetizer, it’s while drinking a beer and watching a ball game at the bar.
We didn’t find any fried crab claws locally, but we do know that the fried calamari at the Boathouse Rotisserie & Raw Bar is pretty darn good. It’s also good at Tony’s Pasta, but they don’t really pass the beer, bar and ballgame test.
The Boathouse also has several shrimp, oyster, clam and mussel dishes at the raw bar, and they offer smoked pork and brisket nachos.