Chattanooga’s Uncle Larry’s Restaurant readies to open fourth location

Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / Larry Torrence poses outside his new location. Larry Torrence will be opening his fourth Uncle Larry's restaurant at 8701 East Brainerd Road. Uncle Larry's was photographed on October 6, 2022. Staff Photo by Robin Rudd / Larry Torrence poses outside his new location. Larry Torrence will be opening his fourth Uncle Larry's restaurant at 8701 East Brainerd Road. Uncle Larry's was photographed on October 6, 2022.

By Bob Gary October 15, 2022 4 min read

Larry Torrence still remembers the day his downtown Chattanooga restaurant opened.

“We did $200 that day,” he said. “We were jumping for joy because that worked out to $1,000 for a (work) week.”

That was March 2013. Last year, Torrance said, Uncle Larry’s Restaurant did more than $1 million in sales.

“God has blessed us,” said Torrence, who plans to open a new location next month at the corner of East Brainerd Road and Morris Hill Road. It would be his fourth, joining locations on Highway 58, Brainerd Road and the original Uncle Larry’s at 736 East Martin Luther King Boulevard.

“It’s a growing area,” Torrence said of the new location, where his food truck’s been parked Tuesdays through Saturdays since mid-September. “We’re going to have outside dining with a canopy, live music sometimes, cornhole … family fun.