A street party to celebrate St. Patrick’s Day will take place on Saturday. The Honest Pint, an Irish pub downtown at 35 Patten Parkway, will close the street between Georgia Avenue and Lindsay Street from 9 a.m. until10 p.m. The bar received a special events beer permit at the Thursday morning meeting of the Chattanooga Beer Board. Guinness will sponsor the event and will bring in a tap truck. There will also be a tent selling canned beer and a food truck.
IDs will be checked and wrist bands issued at one station to speed up the lines. It is being billed an event for all ages.
The Chattanooga Film Festival will be held for the third year at the Majestic Theater, 345 Broad St. from March 31-April 3 from noon until midnight. This special event that features independent films along with social events has grown from its beginning in 2013 to 10,000 attendees spread out over the four days, last year. Parties take place outside and around the theater where beer sales will be allowed, but Victoria Love Diener who is organizing the activities outside, said most beer sales take place inside the theater. Different color wrist bands will be given for each day after IDs are checked.
“Taste,” another special event was also approved for a beer license Thursday morning. This is the sixth year that the fundraiser for The Kidney Foundation has been organized by Chattanooga Presents. A ticket will allow unlimited tastes of food from 20 eateries from around Chattanooga. There will be two bars selling beer and wine and a silent auction. Hours will be from 5 p.m.-9:30 p.m.
The Stone Cup Café has moved a half block from the original location to 208 Frazier Ave. Because of the move, a new beer license was required. Beer Board Vice Chairman Christopher Keene said that this is a well established business and is run properly before he made the motion to approve a new license for owner Charles Megahee, which was unanimously approved.
Moccasin Bend Brewing is also moving from its original location on Tennessee Avenue in St. Elmo. The new address is 3210 S. Broad St. This business that brews specialty craft beers was approved for a Consumer, a Carry-Out, and Distribution license.
The Bitter Alibi, a restaurant and bar at 825 Houston St., has had a consumer beer license for the past two years. The owner Matthew Skudlarek applied for and received an additional Caterer’s license at the beer board meeting Thursday.
A mix-up that was no fault of the restaurant required that Jorge Parra representing Taqueria at the Plaza, 850 Market St. appear before the beer board on a technicality. At the time of the original application in December 2015, a small matter needed to be cleared up and the owner was asked to reappear at the next meeting. When a beer license is approved by the local board, the next step is that the state of Tennessee’s treasurer’s office bills the business for an annual fee.
This restaurant received the treasurer’s bill before coming back to the Beer Board and paid it, believing all approvals had taken place and after that, believed their license was valid. Their appearance before the board Thursday, gave the business formal approval from the city for selling beer.
M
ichael Hunter was approved for a beer permit at two locations of Burns Tobacconist, 108 Jordan Drive and at 723 Cherry Street. Both are cigar shops that also will be selling craft beers. The business will open at 10 a.m. and close at 10 p.m. The downtown store will stay open until 11 p.m. on the weekends.