EDITOR’S NOTE: Where do you cheer for your favorite football team on fall weekends? This is the first in a series of suggestions by staff writers for local sports bars, pubs and neighborhood dives where the atmosphere and food score with fans.
I’ll start off this sports bar review by noting that I don’t watch a lot of sports.
I’ve been known to watch the occasional college football game and sometimes the Super Bowl with all its trappings and hyperbole, but that’s about it. I’m not a sports fanatic; I’m more of a music and film kind of guy.
That said, when it was suggested that Chattanooga Now food writers pick a local sports bar to check out as football season gets in full swing, Bud’s Sports Bar seemed the obvious choice. A local institution four decades in the making, Bud’s is sort of the gold standard for Chattanooga sports bars. I visited an earlier location on Brainerd Road a couple of times many years ago, but had not stopped by the current one until now.
THE SPACE