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.
It was a hectic and uncertain weekend for four popular eateries in St. Matthews after a roof collapse last week forced the city to close the restaurants and other businesses in the strip mall building, pending evaluation and potential...
Wry expressions are not common among buzzards, but Buzzard's Roost Straight is debuting two new expressions of rye whiskey, as sourced and bottled by Jason Brauner of Bourbons Bistro renown. Brauner will be on hand at The Wine Rack...
Pop-ups are temporary restaurants that come in dozens of configurations, serving seemingly endless permutations of edibles in a wide variety of places, some quite unexpected. The only common thread is they’re here today and gone tomorrow.
Social media may not...
Wine Spectator has released its 2019 Restaurant Award Winners, among which appears Cuvée Wine Table (3598 Springhurst Boulevard), a first-time recipient of the Wine Spectator Award of Excellence.
According to Wine Spectator, this is the golden age for wine lovers.
Never...
Butchertown Grocery will open a free-standing bakery in a commercial space at 729 East Main Street.
Butchertown Grocery Bakery’s forthcoming location lies kitty-corner across Main Street from the Quills Coffee Firehouse and a half-mile from Butchertown Grocery’s digs in the...
Your correspondent happens to be a cat person by temperament, but no matter, because Dog Restaurant Week is coming to Louisville July 21 – 26.
Edible Louisville & the Bluegrass is a co-sponsor of Dog Restaurant Week.
Grab your pup and...
Havana Rumba’s owner Marcos Lorenzo has big plans for the space recently vacated by Waylon’s Feed & Firewater at 3939 Shelbyville Road, which is only a half-mile from the restaurant's longtime location at 4115 Oechsli Avenue in St. Matthews.
Lorenzo...
In Mexico a “Luchador” is a masked professional wrestler, whereas in Louisville “El Taco Luchador” is a unalloyed phenomenon.
The fourth El Taco Luchador taqueria opens at 9204 Taylorsville Road in Jeffersontown tomorrow (July 17), with another coming to Colonial...
Margherita meets McPoyle as Mac’s Dough House debuts new location at Mile Wide Beer Co.
Beginning this week there’s a fresh Neapolitan accompaniment to the New England IPAs brewed at Mile Wide Beer Co. – as well as another step...
King of Kentucky is the tipping point where Bourbon’s slow-paced legacies meet the contemporary explosion of interest in the category.
Established in 1881 as a Kentucky Straight Bourbon Whiskey, King of Kentucky’s post-Prohibition experience reflected tastes of the times. It...
