A couple heads to lunch at the Fork & Pie Bar while Aden Shabez of Stone Source cuts tile for the new Blacksmith’s restaurant at the former location of the Market Street Tavern in the 800 block of Market Street.ADDITIONS
Community Pie Track’s End Farmer’s Daughter Sturm Haüs Blacksmith’s Oye Fork & Pie Elemental Southern Comfort Mean Mug Coffeehouse Top It Off Kioto Japanese Five Guys Chianti Fuji Japanese Steak & Sushi Bar Louie Mellow Mushroom Noodles & Co. Sweet Peppers Deli Gin Gin’s Poppy’s Smokehouse Southern Burger Co. Milk and Honey
CLOSURES
Niko’s Mykonos Qdoba Mexican Grill Hillbilly’s Market Street Tavern Seventeen Ninety Grapevine Cafe Serendipity Delights Joe Friday’s Mandarin Garden Piccadilly at Northgate Mall Melting pot Crepe-a-delic Meo Mio’s Table 2 Pasta Italia Al Quds Toast Cafe
Nearly two dozen prominent Chattanooga restaurants closed their doors in the past year, as many of the city’s old-line establishments gave way to a new generation of entrepreneurs.
Celebrated restaurants like Niko’s Southside Grill, Market Street Tavern and Table 2 ceased to exist, as food trucks, coffee shops and cafes arrived to take up the slack.
Some restaurants like Meo Mio’s materialized out of nowhere, then quickly closed their doors and then reopened as a different restaurant within the same year. Others, like the Melting Pot, faded away with little explanation. A few shut their doors due to disasters, like Toast Cafe, which was almost completely gutted by a freak fire.