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.
In 2024 Apron Inc. is staging happy hour “friend-raisers” at different locations on the last Wednesday of each month.
The next event takes place on Wednesday, February 28 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Trouble Bar (1149 S. Shelby...
I've noted oft times before that a major formative influence during my early 20s was Arthur Frommer's book, Europe on $25 A Day.
https://foodanddine.com/edibles-potables-all-the-food-was-greek-to-me-if-not-to-my-travel-guru/
Earlier this year I fetched my 1985 edition of Frommer's seminal guidebook, found the chapter on Nice,...
At his web site, our friend and F&D contributor Kevin Gibson has updated his blog post from 2023, offering a fine overview of fried fish options from local restaurants this year during Lent.
10 Tasty Louisville Restaurants for Fried Fish...
Volare Italian Ristorante is next for APRON Inc.'s Chef in a Box promotion, but first the bigger picture.
Food & Dining Magazine continues to preview the forthcoming Chef in a Box offering. It's a tasty fundraising project dating to the summer...
Tailspin Ale Fest and its parent, HB Productions, do such a good job of promoting the annual all-things-beer bacchanal that nowadays merely nodding in their general direction seems like plenty enough.
Tailspin is eleven years young in 2024, with the...
At Beervana, Jeff Alworth has a great article about the current evolution of Oregon’s Rogue Ales & Spirits, which prompts my recollections: Rogue's Slow, Deliberate Reinvention.
Back in the 1980s and ‘90s, Rogue was a very forward-looking company that anticipated...
The Gravy Cup returns to Mellwood Art Center (1860 Mellwood Ave.) on Saturday, February 17 from 9:00 a.m. to 12 noon (8:00 a.m. for VIP tickets).
More than 30 amateur and professional chefs will present their best gravy recipe to...
Louisville Restaurant Week will be February 19 - 25, as more than 25 participating restaurants offer prix-fixe three-course menus for $26, $36 or $46. One dollar of every meal will be donated to Common Table, operated by Catholic Charities.
Common...
Short and to the point today at "Edibles & Potables," F&D's slot on Sundays for straying beyond our customary coverage area, although Pizza King certainly is part and parcel of the metro foodscape.
A pizza titan, Wendell Swartz, is gone.
Swartz...
https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/summer_2023_vol._78_/30
Long before there were websites, social networks and consumer reviews to help travelers find a clean hotel and a good meal, AAA inspectors were looking under beds and tasting the meatloaf all along North America’s roads.
The 2024 AAA Four...
