The popular Food Network’s $40 a Day show will be featuring Chattanooga on Oct. 29 at 9 p.m., Oct. 30 at 1 a.m. & 6 p.m. and Nov. 10 at noon.
The Chattanooga episode will feature Aretha Frankensteins for breakfast, Back Inn Café for lunch, the Chattanooga Choo Choo’s Dinner in the Diner for dinner and Rembrandt’s Coffee House for a snack – with a final tab of $39.95. After a great amount of research, the Food Network chose these restaurants for their unique local flavor and their great prices.
“We’ve always known that Chattanooga offers visitors and locals a quality product. Now, the Food Network’s 71 million world-wide viewers will have the opportunity to see what a wonderful city we have and discover a few of our local gems,” said Bob Doak, President & CEO of the Chattanooga Area Convention & Visitors Bureau.
$40 a Day is a half-hour food and travel television show in search of the most delicious vacation food experiences the culinary world has to offer, but at affordable prices. Rachael Ray, popular cook and lovable host, is faced with the challenge of spending only $40 a day on food. But there’s a catch - it has to cover breakfast, lunch, dinner and a snack. Throughout the show, Rachel offers countless tips on how you can enjoy gourmet fare on a pauper’s budget – no matter where your travel takes you.
From Paris to Rome, San Francisco to Orlando, Rachael takes viewers on an exciting journey in search of each city’s unique local flavor. The journey may begin at a small bed and breakfast, then move on to a crab shack along the sandy shoreline - all to uncover the culinary and local gems of each city.
“Each episode is directly related to promoting tourism in the cities,” says Rachael. She explores the restaurants and local buzz of activities, showing off what makes the city attractive to families on vacation. “You don’t have to spend a lot to have a rich experience in life. It is exciting to see the real people; to go down the road less traveled. You can go to all of these great cities and eat with the actual people who live there.”