Finally, beer comes to the classroom when Joy Perinne teaches beer cocktail class at U of L
Here in Bourbon Country, we’re all familiar with spirits-based cocktails, but how many of us make beer cocktails?
And if we don’t, why shouldn’t we with all the great brewpubs in the area?
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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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Good beer, grub and 150 booths at LIBA Buy Local Fair Saturday
Saturday’s fifth-annual Buy Local Fair is setting up to be a doozy not only for people who support local businesses, but for lovers of local foods and beer.
Sponsored by the Louisville Independent Business Alliance (LIBA), the event has grown to include more than 150 booths showcasing goods and services from a variety of local businesses, musicians, artists and craftspeople, community organizations and farmers.
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New brew and two new rums coming out of Lexington
Hey, isn’t this supposed to be bourbon country?
Well, according to at least one company, there’s plenty of room in Kentuckians’ livers for more options.
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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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