Staff Photo by Allison Carter/Chattanooga Times Free Press -Work continues on Honest Pint, a new Irish pub located off of Patten Parkway in downtown Chattanooga.The founders of Chattanooga’s The Terminal Brewhouse and Hair of the Dog pub are at it again.
The former location of Parkway Billiards is undergoing a $160,000 transformation with a schedule calling for it to be open by Christmas, according to new tenant Matt Lewis, who said he hopes his third restaurant will be as popular as the first two.
Reopening as the Honest Pint, Lewis plans to transform the storied structure on Patten Parkway into a full-featured Irish Pub, modeled after the ones he visited on a recent tour of Ireland.
The Honest Pint, which will add a splash of color to the block where the first Coca-Cola bottling plant was built, will mark the latest stage in the saga of a building that has served as a nightclub or bar for decades, Lewis said.
From the bright red paint and rough-cut wooden beams outside to the fully-restored chandeliers, wooden floor and paneled ceiling indoors, he’s going for authenticity with a modern twist.