Thursday, April 25, 2024

There was another fire at a Roosters franchise

The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Last week on St. Patrick's Day morning (March 17), there was a fire...

Pat’s Steak House — F&D’s restaurant profile

Pat's Steak House | 2437 Brownsboro Rd. | 502.893.2062 (This story originally appeared in the Spring 2023 print issue.) A Family Affair Since 1958 The distinctive Z-shaped sign shines shamrock green as motorists whoosh by on lower Brownsboro Road...

Edibles & Potables: “Fear And Loathing Among The Union Busters,” at The Lever

The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. The Heine Brothers Coffee Union had an announcement yesterday at Twitter. We’ve got some...

Hot off the presses: The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine has...

The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.   Subscribe to our award winning print publication and have...

Conflagration claims Roosters in Clarksville

(Late edit: There's a Go Fund Me page to help staff at Roosters.) The Roosters restaurant concept dates to 1988. Restaurant Business explains the chain's origins. Roosters is a traditional casual-dining concept offering a varied menu...

R.I.P. Doug Schutte, visionary at The Bard’s Town

We all grasp how difficult it is to bring eateries and bars to fruition, then to grow and maintain them. But add to this the challenge of nurturing "pub theater," and one begins to...

Hometown Brewing’s Foxbody 5.0 garners praise from Beer Connoisseur

Hometown Brewing Company (4041 Preston Highway) is the "house" brewery of Craft House Pizza. The story goes something like this. Tom Brown, part-owner of the family-owned regional Hometown Pizza chain, bought the Cumberland Brews production...

We mourn the passing of Ron Mikulak, our friend and colleague

Ronald Joseph "Ron" Mikulak, educator, journalist and accomplished chef, died Jan. 10, 2023, at his Louisville home. He was 75. The news of Ron's passing Tuesday came to us on Friday afternoon, and a memorial...

Wintertime, and the livin’ is … a tad frigid, actually

File under: "Be Careful What You Wish For." (White Christmas, indeed.) I'm not going anywhere today; granted, not everyone has this luxury, but I intend to enjoy it. Agenda items include reading, writing, music and a...

The Cottage Inn’s approaching comeback tale

For the Comings & Goings department in the current quarterly print issue of Food & Dining Magazine, which is available now at the usual physical locations as well as from issuu, I wrote these...