Taqueria Jalisco Ania is a mexican budget eat in Southside, Chattanooga.
Editorially verified August 18, 2026 by Lewis Vaughan, TableJourney editor. Source.
Tip: Closed Sunday and Monday. The Chatt Taste food tour routes through here for good reason; go off-peak for a table.
Address: 1639 Rossville Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37408
Taqueria at The Plaza feeds downtown Chattanooga weekday tacos and plates from a fast counter at 850 Market Street, breakfast through lunch.
Try: Breakfast tacos
Tip: Weekdays 08:00 to 14:00 only; it is the downtown lunch shortcut when the Rossville Avenue original is too far.
Tacos El Tote hands birria tacos and street corn out of a St Elmo Avenue truck window in Chattanooga at prices a sit-down room cannot touch.
Try: Birria tacos with consomme
Tip: Weekdays 09:00 to 19:00 and closed weekends, the reverse of most trucks; the birria quesadilla with broth is the cold-day order.
Ankar's Hoagies steams overstuffed hoagies and gyros for Chattanooga lunch money on Brainerd Road, largely unchanged family value going back to 1979.
Try: Steamed hoagie
Tip: Brainerd closes at 16:00 Monday and Tuesday but runs to 20:00 the rest of the week; the Hixson Pike shop keeps longer evening hours.
Greg's Sandwich Works stacks fresh-baked bread with homemade soups and sides on E Brainerd Road in Chattanooga, shop-counter prices for scratch food.
Try: Hot sandwich with a homemade side
Tip: The E Brainerd shop runs weekday lunches 11:00 to 17:00; the truck's roaming schedule posts on StreetFoodFinder.
City Cafe Diner covers any craving at any hour on Broad Street in downtown Chattanooga, a 24-hour menu where breakfast plates stay wallet-friendly.
Try: All-day breakfast plate
Tip: The only true 24-hour room downtown; it absorbs the post-bar crowd after 02:00, so daytime is the quieter visit.
Maple Street Biscuit Company fills flaky biscuits with fried chicken and gravy at 407 Broad Street in Chattanooga for breakfast-counter prices.
Try: Fried chicken biscuit
Tip: Doors close at 14:00 weekdays and 15:00 weekends; it is a breakfast-and-lunch operation, not a dinner stop.
