The fastest, cheapest, frequently best food on Chattanooga's streets.
Vendors, food trucks and stalls: the cheapest, fastest, frequently best food in Chattanooga.
White Duck Taco Shop counters out inventive single tacos on McCallie Avenue in Chattanooga, ordered at the window and eaten on the sprawling patio.
Try: Globally-topped tacos
Tip: Owners Adam Lutz and Nelson Taylor opened in June 2025; the taco list rotates, so order two or three different ones.
Taqueria at The Plaza runs a weekday breakfast-and-lunch taco counter at 850 Market Street in downtown Chattanooga from the team behind Taqueria Jalisco Ania.
Try: Breakfast tacos and lunch plates
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 parks its truck at 5601 St Elmo Avenue in Chattanooga, handing out birria tacos with consomme, street corn and breakfast burritos.
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.
Greg's Sandwich Works bakes its own bread for shop and truck sandwiches in Chattanooga, a family operation trading daily from E Brainerd Road.
Try: Hot sandwiches on house-baked bread
Tip: The E Brainerd shop runs weekday lunches 11:00 to 17:00; the truck's roaming schedule posts on StreetFoodFinder.
Chatter Box Cafe smokes barbecue low and slow from a Chattanooga food truck and its W 33rd Street kitchen, the menu changing with what comes off the smoker.
Try: Smoked meats off the trailer smoker
Tip: The former Shallowford Road dining room closed; the truck and catering carry on, so check the Chattanooga Food Trucks group page for the day's pitch.
Jonny Poppers flips burgers and fried snacks from a Chattanooga food truck, a Sunday regular at the Chattanooga Market's food truck row in season.
Try: Burgers and jalapeno poppers
Tip: Most reliable find is Sunday at First Horizon Pavilion during market season, April to November; weekday stops rotate.
Miss Griffin's Footlong Hotdogs dresses its classic footlongs from a counter in the Eastgate Town Center food court, a Chattanooga name since 1939.
Try: Footlong hot dogs, fully dressed
Tip: The stand relocated from Main Street to the Eastgate food court on Brainerd Road; it is a weekday lunch stop only, closed weekends.