8 late night in Chattanooga, editor-picked for food open late at the weekend. Where to eat past midnight on a weekend night. All late night in Chattanooga.
Champy's Famous Fried Chicken ★ 4.4
mlk · 526 E ML King Boulevard, Chattanooga, TN 37403
Hours: Sun-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.
Tip: Friday and Saturday the kitchen runs to midnight. Expect a wait after Lookouts games; the banana pudding travels well.
STIR ★ 4.3
southside · 1444 Market Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402
Hours: Mon-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.
Tip: Weekend 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.
Pickle Barrel ★ 4.2
downtown · 1012 Market Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402
Hours: Mon 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.
Tip: Strictly 21 and over at all times. The wedge-shaped roof deck is the best people-watching perch downtown.
Hi-Fi Clyde's ★ 4.1
southside · 122 West Main Street, Chattanooga, TN 37408
Hours: Sun-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.
Tip: The kitchen closes at 22:00 even when the bar runs late; order food before the band's second set.
Westbound Honky-Tonk ★ 4.1
southside · 24 Station Street, Suite 106, Chattanooga, TN 37408
Hours: Thu 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.
Tip: Free line-dancing lessons Thursday at 20:00; Friday and Saturday it runs to 03:00, among the latest closes in the city.
WanderLinger Brewing Company ★ 4.1
southside · 55 Station Street, Chattanooga, TN 37408
Hours: Mon-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.
Tip: Kitchen closes an hour before the bar; Friday and Saturday it runs to 02:00, latest brewery close in the city.
Alan Gold's Discotheque ★ 3.9
mccallie · 1100 McCallie Avenue, Chattanooga, TN 37404
Hours: Thu-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.
Tip: Thursday to Saturday only, 20:00 to 02:45; drag showtimes post on the club's events page, and the floor peaks after midnight.
City Cafe Diner ★ 3.8
downtown · 511 Broad Street, Chattanooga, TN 37402
Hours: Daily 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.
Tip: The only true 24-hour room downtown; it absorbs the post-bar crowd after 02:00, so daytime is the quieter visit.