Friday, April 26, 2024

Congratulations to Tim Laird on his retirement from Brown-Forman

Now there'll be more of Tim Laird for the rest of us, right? It is highly likely that Tim will never retire from teaching others how to entertain at home. In this sense, he isn't...

Haymarket by Ashbourne Farms, coming to 3032 River Road in 2023

Ashbourne Farms is the agricultural legacy of W.L. Lyons Brown and Sally Brown. A wedding gift to the young couple in 1937–several Scottish Shorthorn cattle and a bull–given by Sally’s grandfather, Ashton Cokayne...

Gov. Beshear offers a year’s alcoholic beverage permit fee waivers to help Kentucky restaurants...

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Ryan’s Steakhouse Buffet closes

Ryan’s Family Steakhouse, 5338 Bardstown Rd., has closed, a casualty of the bankruptcy filing of Buffets LLC, which operates Ryan's Buffet, HomeTown Buffet, Country Buffet, Fire Mountain Buffet and Old Country Buffet. The company...

Recent restaurant nostalgia

An outbreak of restaurant nostalgia seems to have broken out recently, if a couple of posts that sprang up on my news feeds recently is any indication. Various social media posts mooned over once-popular...

Cooking with Ron—Nashville Hot Chicken

Suddenly, Nashville-style hot chicken is popping up all over in the form of new restaurants or as menu items at others such as KFC and O’Charley’s. In Louisville, Joella’s Hot Chicken and Royals Hot...

The former SOU!, reimagined as CASK, opens July 16 in Plainview

As usually is the case these days, the first sign of changes to come at SOU! Southern Kitchen & Bar was a mysterious Facebook post. https://www.facebook.com/cask502/photos/a.2469751196682756/2702245703433303/?type=3&__xts__%5B0%5D=68.ARDqRIIGXJ1ar-zqT_MIkcmaQS-6hkRCJ-FN-Ucky02o7FkmsvObRZXpAE8fsRx1nfojfgDYAfeX2LYqMasIUKuoO9Co1CLWuArReHTDsjTk_-dmqOzINh9F30aOafpiiI0Xad6QnZiTwOUb5RIf8huzNJ-dY0HP28WFRe_jRl0CYZPmoRHCEu_qeX72Aqr7j2vCXCEHcP10Y_sqcLxojTM0JQLNvbu5fODWXYC6uJfB0DQo5i1dygNfT7Cp3vmbnUQ4YefdgNSWlpLHEpERpBl9hNUqWLyeYnV_PbOOvvXjn4bGgkTHWEsG_7w2Hsyw03Avx_YTeXcmbjEaEPcIureK3KU-&__tn__=-R It took a muddled minute or three to realize the...

Gasthaus German Restaurant boasts curbside carryout Gemütlichkeit

Gasthaus German Restaurant (4812 Brownsboro Center) has been conjuring authentic German food for Louisville residents since 1993. Speaking personally as a card-carrying trencherman, with numerous memories of dining out in Germany, not only does Gasthaus...

Restaurants serving Thanksgiving dinner

If you have been reading the Thanksgiving food stories that have been appearing already, and sighing with resignation at the prospect of having to cook something spectacular, here is a list of the local...

New life for Louisville’s legendary Vernon Lanes

Over at Tourist Attractions and Parks (TAP) Magazine, writer Karen Appold surveys an overlooked source of sustenance: "How to Strike it Right with Food Offerings at Bowling Centers." "When people visit a bowling center," Appold...