Restaurant Scene: Potato salad in gumbo? Main Street Meats in Chattanooga says yes!
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?
Stories by Andre James
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Restaurant Scene: Flying Squirrel to close and reopen as Ernest Chinese
After a decade of dazzling diners with its eclectic mishmash of "French and East-Asian influences," the Flying Squirrel is landing. Permanently.
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Restaurant Scene: Barque’s bologna sandwich is dressed in a tuxedo
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…
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Restaurant Scene: Is Chattanooga ready for authentic Chinese food, or nah?
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…
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Restaurant Scene: Lookout and Signal mountains both go Mediterranean
Massey's Kitchen's is cooking on Lookout Mountain, and Civil Provisions and Bar has set up shop on Signal Mountain.
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Restaurant Scene: Alleia is the best Italian restaurant in a city full of Italian restaurants
I keep thinking I'm about to catch a glimpse of Drake from my peripheral.
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Restaurant Scene: After 31 years in prison, Bryan Slayton’s road to redemption is on M.L. King Boulevard
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…
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Restaurant Scene: After 106 years in business, Zarzour’s Cafe is up for sale
Joe "Dixie" Fuller said he's done. He decided it's time to part with the family business.
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Restaurant Scene: Yes! Fried oysters for breakfast at Chattanooga's Big Bad Breakfast
"Ham powder" has to be the cheat code.
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Mocha and merch: five of the best t-shirts from these Chattanooga coffee shops
Yes, I'm that writer in the coffee shop.
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Restaurant Scene: Owner says Central Park is back and will be better than before
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.
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Restaurant Scene: Catch Bar & Grill epitomizes fine dining on the outskirts of Chattanooga
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 …
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Restaurant Scene: The chopped wiener is the most iconic Chattanooga dish of all time
Last summer it took three rounds and 524 votes for Chatter magazine to crown the burger at Tremont Tavern as "the most Chattanoogan food."
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Restaurant scene: Chattanooga should cherish Central Park, before it’s too late
Central Park has slowly dwindled from over 60 locations nationwide in its heyday to only three remaining — in Chattanooga, Hixson and Fort Oglethorpe, Georgia.
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Restaurant scene: Tennessee’s first I Heart Mac & Cheese is coming to Hixson
Do you want to eat free macaroni and cheese for a year?
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Restaurant Scene: Start Chattanooga Taco Week at Santi’s Mexican Grill and Sports Bar
However, in honor of Chattanooga Taco Week, Santi's will be running a special all week long.
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Restaurant Scene: Biskit NV serves the breakfast that would make your granny jealous
"It's a family recipe" has to be the most overworked gimmick in the history of food and beverage.
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Restaurant Scene: Tinker’s Soft Serve set for grand opening in downtown Chattanooga
Please don't call it ice cream or sherbet or gelato, or sorbet or even kulfi.
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Restaurant Scene: Benton’s is the champagne of bacon, and this is where you can eat it in Chattanooga.
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…
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Restaurant Scene: No one out Chattanoogas the Broad Street Taco Bell
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…
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Restaurant Scene: After a brief hiatus, Hixson is getting its Cicis Pizza back
Dry your weeping eyes. After a brief hiatus and ownership swap, the Cicis Pizza on Highway 153 in Hixson will be reopening.
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Restaurant Scene: What is barbecue in Chattanooga? It’s a little bit of everything!
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…
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Restaurant Scene: Why the James Beard awards for Opa! in Chattanooga are no longer on its website
Type in "Rebecca Barron" on the James Beard Foundation website, and the amazingly talented chef's name immediately pops up.
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Restaurant Scene: A Chattanooga torta for every day of the week
So, here it is Chattanooga! A guide to a different kind of torta for every day of the week.
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Restaurant Scene: Downtown Chattanooga’s Honest Pint serves up its last pint
No more tater tots deep fried in duck fat.
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Restaurant Scene: Ackee and saltfish, Jamaica’s national (and potentially poisonous) national dish, is in a strip mall on Lee Highway
I'm never being overzealous when I exalt oxtails as the gold standard of all offals, even more golden than my beloved chitterlings.
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Restaurant scene: Chattanooga’s Gate 11 Distillery unveils Thomas Young dark rye whiskey
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…
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Restaurant Scene: JJ Fish & Chicken overwhelmed during soft opening in Chattanooga
JJ Fish & Chicken could have used security backup at its soft opening Tuesday on Highway 58. It was bedlam, in a good way.
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Restaurant Scene: Little Coyote will bring pampered chuck-eye and fancy soft serve to St. Elmo
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…
