Matt McPeak is candid about what No Hard Feelings, a new place on Broad Street across from the Read House, is all about.
“It’s a bar first and foremost,” he said. “It’s a cocktail bar and we’d like it to be no fuss and no frills. It’s pretty thought through and very intentional and inviting, but it is a nice intimate place where we like our music loud and our drinks strong. It’s a place we hope people will want to come back to.”
Open from 5 p.m. to 1 a.m. Sunday-Thursday and until 2 a.m. on Friday and Saturday, it’s located at 806 Broad St. in a 2,000-square-foot space that has been empty for quite some time, and it needed quite a bit of work.
When McPeak and his partners – Freddie Schwenk, Matthew Buttel and Scott Baird – from Nashville came to Chattanooga looking for a location, however, it fit the bill. McPeak is the manager partner in the group.
“We had a very specific list and we probably only looked at three places to be honest,” McPeak said.