This past summer I wrote a piece with the headline: After 106 years in business, Zarzour's Cafe is up for sale. I wasted no time expressing my regret: "As of right now, my biggest regret since becoming the food writer here at the Chattanooga Times Free Press is that I was too busy eating fried whiting at Uncle Larry's to ever get a chance to have a burger at Zarzour's before something unfortunate like this happened."
And then, almost miraculously, Zarzour's didn't close. I saw a handwritten note taped to the yellow and red chalkboard sign on the side of the building reading: "WE AIN'T DONE YET!!! WE ARE BACK! MONDAY OCT. 30TH"
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Photo 1 / Staff file photo / Photos and objects decorate the wall behind the counter at Zarzour's Cafe on Tuesday, Aug. 28, 2018 in Chattanooga, Tenn.
Photo 2 / Staff file photo / Zarzour's is a 100 year-old lunch eating establishment on Rossville Avenue.
Photo 3 / Staff file photo / Zarzour's Cafe is seen on Tuesday, Aug. 2...