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Read MoreFrom Good to Great — Anchorage Cafe spreads its creative wings
Something from here, and a bit from there, falls nicely into place at the Anchorage Café — an upscale (or is it traditional?) coffee shop in the heart of “downtown” Anchorage. A creation of Bruce Lake and his wife Courtney, the Anchorage Café began two Derbies ago as an espresso bar with a little lunchtime fare — and some darned good...
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Read More$10 Challenge — Annie’s Cafe: Vietnamese restaurants warm welcome
“It’s hard to find a place where everybody knows your name when you’re a vagabond.” I’ve lived in seven different cities since I graduated from high school. By the time I became familiar with my surroundings in one place, it would be time to load up the Mercury Tracer and set up house in a new neighborhood in a new...
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Read MoreHere’s the Beef — Eat local (recipe included)
Though you can’t tell it by the Toyotas and the UPS trucks, perhaps, Kentucky is an agriculture state. Though manufacturing, services, mining and other industries contribute their part, Kentucky ranks fifth in the country in the number of farms. Tobacco has supported those farms and farm families since time immemorial. But in the last decade or...
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Read MoreDid you know that over a half million people read Food & Dining magazine each issue?
If you have a business that would benefit from reaching more people than you have ever met, you might want to consider Food & Dining Magazine. We are small business priced, with big business reach. More...
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Read MoreHot off the presses! Food & Dining is available in all formats — Print, Tablet & Phone
Food & Dining is now available in all formats — Print (Find a Copy) Digital...
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Read More365 Days of Chocolate
The little girl who learned to cook in her grandmother’s New Mexican kitchen has grown up to bring a sophisticated option to the candy connoisseurs of Louisville Metro. A few years ago, 29 year-old Erika Chavez-Graziano was working on her economics degree in Binghamton, New York and making truffles for “friends, family, pot lucks . ....
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Former Louisville server says restaurant servers need to up their game
For good reason, Louisville’s restaurant scene has attracted a lot of national attention lately, and at least for Steve Coomes, one of our contributors, the lion’s share of credit for that attention is deserved by the kitchen, not in the front of the house.
Coomes claims Louisville’s best-known chefs correctly have been praised for their outstanding and innovative food, how well their supporting cooks are trained, and how carefully they source and manage ingredients.
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F&D Recommends Jamaican Jerk Chicken at the Kentucky Reggae Festival (recipe included)
Certain foods bring more to the table than just their good taste. Some foods evoke a range of sensory connections that tie us to experiences and memories.
For me, when I eat the foods of the Caribbean, I see again the deep blue sky over the white sands that hug the blue-green waters, I hear the happy laughter of the people who have come to love living by that warm sea, who create rich art and music out of their long-established culture.
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Oakroom hosting ‘Great Gatsby’ ’74 movie and dinner June 1
You don’t have to be a Leo DiCaprio lover to find the June 1 Great Gatsby Dinner at The Oakroom a great event. The five-course dinner will, no doubt, be an appropriately flashy presentation set in the period-correct dining room, where “Great Gatsby” author F. Scott Fitzgerald likely ate. (He was thrown out of the Seelbach Bar, legend has it.)
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June 8 Bourbon Trail course on the schedule at Moonshine University
Before we get all serious and newsy … how do you not love a place named Moonshine University? Does it not make you wonder if going back to college would be the right thing to do—if and only if—you could enroll at Moon U? We bet class attendance would be 100 percent, 100 percent of the time.
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Wiltshire Pantry Bakery and Café is now open…
and we know where we are going for lunch today.
From the team that brought you Wiltshire Pantry (one of the top rated catering companies in the state) and Wiltshire on Market (a solid favorite in NuLu’s hot restaurant row) adds another venue that is sure to please.
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History in the glass on the menu during De La Torre’s Raventos wine dinner May 22
Louisville diners are treated to lots of wine dinners, but this one appears to be a bit special.
The De La Torre’s (1606 Bardstown Rd.) Raventos wine dinner, set for Wednesday, May 22, at 7 p.m., will feature Arnau Roca, who is coming from Barcelona as special guest.
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Get your mugs ready for the Highlands Beer Festival Saturday
Some 213 beers from 60 breweries will poured at this weekend’s Highlands Beer Festival, held from 5-9 p.m. inside Mid-City Mall (1250 Bardstown Road).
The Festival is sponsored by the ever-generous and always beer-minded folks at ValuMarket, whose growler offerings are always good. At a similar event in December, 1,030 people came to drink about 150 different beers.
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Oh, the chefs, they are a changin’
Less than a month after he was made executive chef at the St. Charles Exchange, Tyler Powell is on his way to The Silver Dollar, the red-hot honky-tonk in Clifton, where he’ll assume the same title.
Powell had recently replaced Patrick McCandless as the executive chef at the one-year-old St. Charles, but apparently had been in talks with Silver Dollar operators for some time about the move.
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Let’s dance! APRON Disco Ball fundraiser set for June 2
The Disco Ball is the name for this year’s annual APRON fundraiser scheduled for June 2.
Themed “We Are Family,” the event will feature restaurants serving cocktails, appetizers and desserts to what will likely be a large crowd.
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May 18 Bacon Ball moves to Oxmoor Farm to handle swelling crowd
The Louisville Visual Arts Association’s third-annual Bacon Ball is leaving the Louisville Water Tower site for more a spacious pen at Oxmoor Farm, located just behind Oxmoor Mall.
Last year’s event drew 1,200 bacon lovers, requiring the switch to a larger venue.
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