The Southside’s Grocery Bar hosted a fall celebration event to raise funds and awareness for the upcoming CureSearch for Children’s Cancer Walk Chattanooga. Many area Chattanoogans enjoyed the beautiful weather on Saturday painting free pumpkins, and enjoying freshly-prepared organic foods such as pumpkin muffins, Halloween cookies and hot cider. Shoppers were offered the chance to win a variety of Grocery Bar offerings including holiday hams, side dishes, pies and a grand prize of a $150 Grocery Bar giftcard in exchange for donations of any size to CureSearch. Also 5% of all of Grocery Bar’s Saturday sales were donated to CureSearch.
“We are so excited and grateful for the support that the Grocery Bar and community have shown us with this event,” said Katie Petersen, Community Development manager for CureSearch for Children’s Cancer Walk.
Grocery Bar is a chef-driven grocery store/restaurant concept that replaced Enzo’s in the Southside district earlier this year. NYC-based food columnist turned General Manager, Mia Littlejohn, says Grocery Bar offers Chattanoogans a unique shopping experience with both fresh and dry pantry ingredients packaged on-site in small portions conducive to recipe- based cooking at home. Today’s festivities, ‘just make sense’, said Ms. Littlejohn. “We’re really committed to the health of our community members and want to be a resource for healthful and healing foods,” she continued. “We strive to offer groceries and prepared foods that can accommodate special dietary restrictions, and can give everybody wholesome nutrition and energy.”
Tiffany Merritt, a Southside resident, and her husband and two daughters, were one of the first families to join in the day’s fun. Ms. Merritt said she frequents Grocery Bar because of their wonderful take-out items and good prices. “I also just love the meeting space here,” she added. “We just always say, ‘let’s meet at Grocery Bar’.”