If frying chicken was a sport, the original Champy's on M.L. King Boulevard would be the Boston Celtics, led by Bill Russell who won eight championships in a r…
The duo behind Basecamp, Jacob Mundy and Brett Allen, have marked a spot for a sister restaurant on the Southside and are naming it Outpost.
Bless Yer Heart is the watering hole of my dreams.
I had one mission when I pulled up to the Hamilton County Fair: Eat.
I really don't know who to blame, so I'll pick the lowest hanging pieces of fruit — the pandemic and inflation.
"It is not a casual endeavor to open a restaurant," Chef Erik Niel told me, clearly exhausted by the process, but still optimistic about the upcoming grand ope…
This is the food writer's version of swimming the English Channel or climbing to the summit of Mount Everest.
Fortunately for us, Chattanooga has such a robust Latino population, you won't need a planispheric astrolabe to find empanadas. As a matter of fact, I found a …
Just to clarify, Elder's Ace Hardware's sixth annual Scenic City EggFest had nothing to do with actual eggs from chickens.
Happy Wednesday! This is Andre, and welcome back to What to Eat Next. I'm glad you have entrusted me with your appetites.
It's finally the season to wear those corduroy pants again, when making s'mores on a bonfire in the backyard makes perfect sense, when football season starts t…
How can a sandwich named after Philadelphia made by a New York-inspired deli in Chattanooga remind me of Los Angeles? I know it sounds crazy. Just let me ex…
I could lie if I really wanted to. I could capture some shaky footage slowly panning over a pile of tebasaki bones and remnants of seaweed salad.
It's hard to hide behind a pile of classic Buffalo wings. At its best, the sauce has no more than a few ingredients: cayenne pepper-based hot sauce and melted …
If Anthony Bourdain would have visited me instead of Chef Sean Brock on his trip to Charleston, South Carolina, things would be totally different.
Remember earlier this summer when I crowned the chopped wiener as Chattanooga's most iconic dish?
The members of Chattanooga's dining public have some concerns.
I used to love brunch. Before there was a D.J. cuing a Rihanna song. Before gold flakes glittered in flutes of passion fruit mimosas. Before they started swapp…
How would Kenyatta Ashford act if he happened to catch me in Main Street Meats slurping a bowl of gumbo that had a scoop of potato salad plopped in the middle?
After a decade of dazzling diners with its eclectic mishmash of "French and East-Asian influences," the Flying Squirrel is landing. Permanently.
Remember the scene from "Titanic" when Molly Brown, played by Kathy Bates, scrubbed the smut and squalor off Leonardo DiCaprio's character, Jack Dawson, by let…
Do you know what cheung fun is without Googling it? Have you ever heard of fuqi feipian? If you haven't, it's sliced beef offals drenched in chili sauce and, h…
Massey's Kitchen's is cooking on Lookout Mountain, and Civil Provisions and Bar has set up shop on Signal Mountain.
I keep thinking I'm about to catch a glimpse of Drake from my peripheral.
All together, Bryan Slayton spent 31 years incarcerated in a handful of federal prisons across the United States. During his first stint from 1989-1997, Slayto…
Joe "Dixie" Fuller said he's done. He decided it's time to part with the family business.
"Ham powder" has to be the cheat code.
Yes, I'm that writer in the coffee shop.
A few weeks ago, I documented the rise and fall of Central Park, the beloved burger stand that once dominated the local and regional fast food industry.
Would you believe you could get perfectly seared sushi-grade ahi tuna in Cleveland, Tennessee? What about a velvety lobster bisque that would have made Pierre …
Last summer it took three rounds and 524 votes for Chatter magazine to crown the burger at Tremont Tavern as "the most Chattanoogan food."
Central Park has slowly dwindled from over 60 locations nationwide in its heyday to only three remaining — in Chattanooga, Hixson and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
Do you want to eat free macaroni and cheese for a year?
However, in honor of Chattanooga Taco Week, Santi's will be running a special all week long.
"It's a family recipe" has to be the most overworked gimmick in the history of food and beverage.
Please don't call it ice cream or sherbet or gelato, or sorbet or even kulfi.
Allan Benton doesn't care if his alma mater, the University of Tennessee, dubbed him the "King of Country Ham" or if Nashville-based writer Chris Chamberlain c…
I heard the chihuahua from the iconic commercials that aired in the '90s was buried under the Taco Bell on Broad Street and that his spirit "blesses every orde…
Dry your weeping eyes. After a brief hiatus and ownership swap, the Cicis Pizza on Highway 153 in Hixson will be reopening.
There are at least 20 barbecue restaurants in Chattanooga. I'm not talking about places like Thatcher's in Ringgold, Hog Heaven in Rossville or even Bailey's i…
Type in "Rebecca Barron" on the James Beard Foundation website, and the amazingly talented chef's name immediately pops up.
So, here it is Chattanooga! A guide to a different kind of torta for every day of the week.
No more tater tots deep fried in duck fat.
I'm never being overzealous when I exalt oxtails as the gold standard of all offals, even more golden than my beloved chitterlings.
On Friday, Lee will unveil a whiskey that's been aging in his boxcar barrelhouse — a refurbished boxcar donated to the distillery by the Tennessee Valley Railr…
JJ Fish & Chicken could have used security backup at its soft opening Tuesday on Highway 58. It was bedlam, in a good way.
As Mojo Burrito owner Eve Williams lamented in a Facebook post from February 2021 to a legion of the restaurant's loyalists who fell in love with the restauran…
