$$$$SouthernMlkSun-Thu 10:30-22:00; Fri-Sat 10:30-24:00
Champy's Famous Fried Chicken runs its MLK Boulevard fryers to midnight on Friday and Saturday, Chattanooga's late-night bird with cold beer.
OrderFried chicken and hot tamales
TipFriday and Saturday the kitchen runs to midnight. Expect a wait after Lookouts games; the banana pudding travels well.
$$$$SeafoodSouthsideMon-Thu 11:00-24:00; Fri 11:00-01:00; Sat 10:00-01:00; Sun 10:00-24:00; brunch Sat-Sun 10:00-14:30
STIR shakes cocktails until midnight or later nightly at the Chattanooga Choo Choo on Market Street, the raw bar running late for downtown Chattanooga.
OrderOysters and late cocktails
TipWeekend brunch runs 10:00 to 14:30. The bar stays open to midnight nightly and to 01:00 Friday and Saturday, rare for a Chattanooga seafood room.
$$$$AmericanDowntownMon 18:00-03:00; Tue-Sat 11:00-03:00; Sun 12:00-03:00
Pickle Barrel pours and fries until 03:00 every night of the week in Chattanooga's flatiron wedge on Market Street, the city's benchmark late kitchen.
OrderBurgers and fried pickles
TipStrictly 21 and over at all times. The wedge-shaped roof deck is the best people-watching perch downtown.
$$$$AmericanSouthsideSun-Thu 11:00-23:00; Fri-Sat 11:00-01:00; kitchen to 22:00
Hi-Fi Clyde's holds the Southside's late shift on West Main Street in Chattanooga, the bar pouring to 01:00 on weekends with the music going.
OrderTacos and queso before the kitchen closes
TipThe kitchen closes at 22:00 even when the bar runs late; order food before the band's second set.
$$$$Cocktail barSouthsideThu 20:00-24:00; Fri-Sat 20:00-03:00; closed Sun-Wed
Westbound Honky-Tonk two-steps until 03:00 on Friday and Saturday nights on Station Street, the latest dance floor in Chattanooga's Southside quarter.
OrderDrinks only; eat on Station Street first
TipFree line-dancing lessons Thursday at 20:00; Friday and Saturday it runs to 03:00, among the latest closes in the city.
$$$$BrewerySouthsideMon-Tue 16:00-22:00; Wed-Thu 15:00-23:00; Fri-Sat 12:00-02:00; Sun 12:00-22:00; kitchen closes one hour earlier
WanderLinger Brewing Company keeps its taps flowing to 02:00 on weekend nights on Station Street in Chattanooga, the city's latest-closing brewery.
OrderHouse beer with kitchen plates to an hour before close
TipKitchen closes an hour before the bar; Friday and Saturday it runs to 02:00, latest brewery close in the city.
$$$$Cocktail barMccallieThu-Sat 20:00-02:45
Alan Gold's Discotheque keeps Chattanooga dancing to 02:45 from Thursday to Saturday on McCallie Avenue, with drag shows at the centre of the night.
OrderDrinks only
TipThursday to Saturday only, 20:00 to 02:45; drag showtimes post on the club's events page, and the floor peaks after midnight.
$$$$American DinerDowntownDaily 00:00-24:00
City Cafe Diner never closes on Broad Street in downtown Chattanooga, 388 menu items and towering cakes available at 03:00 just as readily as noon.
OrderAll-day breakfast and diner cakes
TipThe only true 24-hour room downtown; it absorbs the post-bar crowd after 02:00, so daytime is the quieter visit.