Why, of course Louisville’s flattered by all the national attention!
OK, raise your hands if you find yourself thinking a lot about other cities when your own hometown of Louisville is one damn amazing place you admit you sometimes overlook.
We’d raise our hands but we’re typing this indictment of ourselves, so just count us in with this admission: Sometimes we all forget about what’s right under our collective and need outside reminders of just how cool that is.
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Now here is clever way to promote new extended hours.
Coals Artisan Pizza recently announced their extended summer hours. And to promote the extra hour each night, they are offering half-off pizzas during those extra hours.
Now you can enjoy the good food at Coals an extra hour every night—open until 10pm Monday through Thursday, until 11pm on Friday and Saturday and until 9pm on Sundays.
The half-priced pizza (dine in only) are available Mon-Thurs from 9pm-10pm, and Friday and Saturday pizzas are half off from 10pm-11pm.
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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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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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Uptown Café to be renovated in late May.
Twenty years of operating puts some wear and tear on establishment, so Uptown Café (1624 Bardstown Road) is scheduling some renovations to take place at the end of May.
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Beat the post-Downs rush and dine early Varanese
As Churchill Downs and NBC continue to push back the start times of the Kentucky Oaks and the Kentucky Derby, it slices into the dinner hour and costs restaurateurs significant sales. Talk that the Derby will one day be run under the lights only makes things worse.
(Geez, the idea that so many drunks in the infield will have that much more time to party is a frightening notion all on its own.)
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Sidebar at Whiskey Row opening pushed back until May
Whether you’re an eager customer or a restaurant owner, there are few things more aggravating than a delayed restaurant opening. So common are these events that the old saying in the restaurant industry is, “Every opening is just one government inspection away,” though the government isn’t always to blame.
In the case of restaurants like Sidebar on Whiskey Row, a new operation going into a very old building, it’s commonly a construction issue. The building is more than 150 years old, and according operating partner Rich Ruth, putting modern toys into an ancient chest is causing a few delays.
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Majid’s hosting the ‘Bloodhorse’ Derby winner dinner April 25
Before anyone goes there, know that no horses were harmed in the creation of this menu.
Where do you think we are? Italy? Japan?
The Bloodhorse dinnner is a rather clever celebration of one of Kentucky’s greatest living assets — big, beautiful, lovely and badass thoroughbreds — to be held at Majid’s St. Matthews on April 25 at 7 p.m. Plus, if you’re not familiar with “Bloodhorse,” it’s a leading publication in the equine industry.
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Take our cue: check out Rob-A-Cue, Louisville’s newest BBQ stop
After 29 years running Bailey Tools & Supply, its president and CEO, Rob Bailey, thought it was time for a career change.
A longtime grilling and barbecue enthusiast and contest veteran, Bailey had heard his friends say, “Go pro!” enough times to force him to make the leap to foodservice by opening up Rob-A-Que last month.
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