Roger Baylor
(Web Editor / Columnist / Feature Writer) An entrepreneur, educator, and innovator with more than a quarter-century of hands-on experience and expertise as a brewer, restaurateur, and commentator. As the leader of New Albany’s Sportstime Pizza/Rich O’s Public House (which later became New Albanian Brewing Company), Baylor played a seminal role in Louisville’s craft beer renaissance. Currently, he is the beer director at Pints&union in New Albany. Baylor’s “Hip Hops” columns on beer-related subjects have been a fixture in F&D since 2005, and he was named the magazine's digital editor in 2019.
Chef Shaq Kitchen (612 S. Fifth St.) is expanding.
Chef Shaq Kitchen to open second location in Russell neighborhood, by Kailen Olison (WHAS11)
LOUISVILLE, Ky. — The owner of Chef Shaq Kitchen, Shaquan McDonald, announced on his Facebook that he will...
The fast casual FDKY BBQ restaurant in Jeffersontown (9606 Taylorsville Rd.) will close permanently after the business day on Friday, April 26.
Here's the text:
This is the last week we will be open for business! We will plan on Friday,...
A pedestrian on 57th Street sees a musician getting out of a cab and asks, “How do you get to Carnegie Hall?” Without pause, the artist replies wearily, “Practice.”
In his book Outliers, Malcolm Gladwell advances this famous Carnegie Hall...
The Fresco Tea Bar location at 1370 Veterans Pkwy #100 in Clarksville closed on April 19.
The text:
Well Fresco Family... we have some news. ❤️
As many of you know, today will be our last day at the Clarksville location on...
Sellersburg is temporarily down one Mexican restaurant, but a succession plan will be implemented by VIVA Hospitality Group, which is converting one of its concepts (the departing El Catrin) into another (the arriving Señor Iguanas). The address is 7773...
Here is the text from Dundee Tavern's announcement at Facebook last week.
🎉🎉 ANNOUNCEMENT 🎉🍕 Good News!!🍕
Dundee Tavern is announcing we are becoming the 10th location of Derby City Pizza in the Greater Louisville area. We will change our name,...
Karen and Jon Riddle, who got their start with the fast casual Chicken Salad Chick franchise four years ago in Jeffersonville, will open another CSC location at Oxmoor Center (7900 Shelbyville Road in St. Matthews) on Wednesday, April 24.
https://foodanddine.com/chicken-salad-chick-fast-casual-restaurant-coming-to-jeffersonville-town-center/
If...
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Dad’s Coffee, located at 2204 Dundee Road in the Highlands, will close on April 27.
While the loss of an independently-owned coffee shop...
Yes, we know: EVERYONE within a hundred-mile radius of Louisville is familiar with the Kentucky Oaks, but just in case outsiders are tuning in, here's a pertinent refresher encouraging them to join in the fun.
The Kentucky Oaks race is...
https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/vol_81_-_spring_2024/18
Our editor-in-chief and columnist Marty Rosen surveys The Cottage Inn (570 Eastern Parkway) for the current print edition of F&D (Spring 2024). The venerable Highlands eatery closed briefly in 2021 owing to pandemic disruptions, but new owners Kevin and Daniela...
