Scooter's Bar Journal » Downtown

Pickle Barrel

scooterj — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:21:00 +0000

(Downtown, Chattanooga, TN)

Scooter’s 801st bar, first visited in 2010.

As we were heading towards downtown I noticed a very cool looking building, so I wanted to check it our before we left. Fortunately B remembered exactly where I had seen it.

This is a wedge-shaped restaurant-bar at an angular intersection, tapering to just a few feet wide at the south end. We entered to find a very old interior and a good side crowd in a small space. The bar proper was to the left in a small back room but there was no room for us in there. However the booth at the “tip” of the place was open so that’s where we settled in.

The old wooden benches in the window both sloped and were lined with cracked and torn leather. Years of messages were written and carved into all the woodwork.

There was a rickety-looking spiral staircase that we didn’t check out. After we left, I looked up and saw that it led to a rooftop deck.

1012 Market St
Chattanooga, TN 37402
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Taco Mac

scooterj — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:20:00 +0000

(Downtown, Chattanooga, TN)

Scooter’s 800th bar, first visited in 2010.

We were getting hungry, so for my 800th bar we decided to head over to a small regional chain called Taco Mac. The original location was a small taco shack, but the menu has expanded to become more wing oriented as the concept spread throughout this region. B had been to a location in Georgia before, but upon entering he said this had to be the biggest and nicest.

This place was packed, but we found two barstools right by the door.

There were literally hundreds of beers to choose from. I selected Highland Black Mocha Stout, while B chose Boulder Sweaty Betty. He went for a burrito, but fearful of getting too full I settled on just some cheese sticks.

423 Market St
Chattanooga, TN 37402
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Hair of the Dog Pub

scooterj — Sat, 13 Nov 2010 18:19:00 +0000

(Downtown, Chattanooga, TN)

Scooter’s 799th bar, first visited in 2010.

We’d pulled off in Chattanooga looking for one particular bar whose name intrigued us. We found that it no longer existed, so we decided to just drive around until we found something. Before long we found ourselves downtown and we parked int he first free lot we could find. Hair of the Dob Pub happened to be the closest bar to where we parked.

From the outside it looks new, but on the inside it appears to be well over 100 years old.

It was pretty crowded. I sat down at the bar while B went to use the restroom. I tried to order our drinks, but apparently in Chattanooga they can only sell one drink per person at a time. So I had to wait for B to return before I could complete the order.

It was too crowded downstairs so we took our drinks up to the second level. It was crowded up there as well.

The standout feature of this bar is an opening in the middle of the second floor where an antique dumb waiter is used to carry food and drinks between the floors. There was a small bar ledge around this opening so that’s where we camped out.

334 Market St
Chattanooga, TN 37402
US
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(423) 265-4615
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