John Carlos White
(Publisher/Founder) After a ten-year career in the Navy, John Carlos White returned to Louisville where he became a fixture in the market’s media landscape. After a decade working in radio broadcasting, he found his love for print while serving as Vice President of Louisville Eccentric Observer Newspaper (LEO) for three years. In 2003 John Carlos founded Food & Dining Magazine. He is a very hands-on Publisher working closely with the editors on content, going to the majority of photoshoots, and is the lead graph design for the magazine.
The story that won’t die.
Since Lynn’s Paradise Café made headlines—first for its mandate that servers bring $100 to work to ensure assistants were tipped in cash, second for a server being fired for not following said mandate, and third...
… and we aren’t voting.
You’d be hard pressed to find many people who love Louisville’s restaurants more than us. Telling the masses about the places where incredible food is created and served daily in this town is want we...
Start pushing bourbon, trust us…
A recent study by Restaurant Sciences is getting the attention of bartenders, pointing to wine and beer drinkers typically leaving smaller tips than those drinking bourbon. Follow the link to read more.
Chef John Varanese, of Varanese Restaurant, has been honored as one of the country’s top culinary talents in the premier edition of Best Chefs America.
This is the first-ever industry peer review of U.S. chefs chosen as a result of...
Lynn’s Paradise Café closes abruptly on Jan. 11
Insider Louisville: Lynn’s Paradise Café, one of Louisville’s most iconic restaurants, closed abruptly Friday night.Guests gathered for a recent New Year’s Day pajama party at Lynn’s Paradise Cafe.
A statement authored by founder...
A new trend in bars is barrel-aged cocktails.
Bartenders mix all the shelf-stable ingredients into a big batch, pour it into a barrel and age a few days to a few months. The result is a complex version of, say,...
Galt House owner/operator serves three shots of new business to Whiskey Row.
Insider Louisville: Three new locally-owned restaurants will soon be filling out the rapidly-growing Whiskey Row on Main Street downtown.
Al J. Schneider Company – owner/operator of the Galt House Hotel...
City goverment insiders are talking with a great deal of enthusiasm about a successful music/dining concept coming here from Philadelphia.
We heard chatter about this concept more than a year ago as they looked at buildings along Fourth Street. Now, apparently,...
Effective Monday, two downtown Vint Coffee locations, located at 516 W. Main St.t and 462 S. 4th St., have been converted to Heine Brothers Coffee.
Heine Brothers merged with Vint in the Fall of 2011. Mike Mays, the President of...
A sample from the four-star write-up given Asiatique by Courier-Journal critic Marty Rosen:
"A few weeks ago, Asiatique unveiled a new seasonal menu — one full of startling pleasures that feed the eye and mind as well as the palate. Let’s...
