Chloe Wright and Ryan Smith’s first project, the Rosecomb, opened in the North Shore neighborhood of Chattanooga in the summer of 2021 as the oakleaf hydrangeas in the front yard bloomed. The pair, who have since married, decorated the garden house bar and restaurant like a luxe bolt-hole in the Cotswolds, hanging blues posters and folk art portraits from his native Mississippi alongside gilt-framed mirrors and sepia photos that nod to her roots here in Tennessee.
By that fall, regulars had claimed spots at the dogleg bar to sip cocktails garnished with mint
