Petunia’s Silver Jalapeno opens for lunch outside Granfalloon event space

Petunia’s Silver Jalapeño has found a new home – parked permanently outside The Granfalloon event space at 400 E. Main St. in Chattanooga’s hip Southside neighborhood.

The eatery, which prepares fish tacos, burgers, sandwiches and other take-out food inside a 1971, 31-foot-long silver Airstream International trailer, on Friday served its first lunch customers in almost two years.

Previously, Petunia’s Silver Jalapeño was in the bottom floor of Warehouse Row’s South building. But it closed in November 2014 to make room for the then-new restaurant, Two Ten Jack. The eatery served meals from its Airstream until about four years ago on Signal Mountain Road, when Virginia Cofer closed it.

“I had this [Airstream] in storage,” said restaurateur Cofer, who runs her catering company, Virginia’s Gourmet by Design, out of the Granfalloon.