Ron Mikulak
(Executive Editor) Ron Mikulak, a founding staff member and former Editor-in-Chief of F&D, has also served as the Assistant Food Editor at the Courier-Journal, where for nine years he managed the test kitchen, cooked hundreds of restaurant dishes requested by C-J readers for the "Cook's Corner" column and developed his own recipes for feature articles. After retiring from the newspaper in 2013 he happily returned to F&D, where he now writes the popular columns “Cooking with Ron” and "Comings and Goings." Ron also pens the pithy restaurant guide blurbs that try to capture the spirit of all the area restaurants.
It has been reported that Susan Seiller closed her River Road restaurant Relish Wednesday, April 9, after the lunch service
Citing costs and other problems that made her "business model" with the restaurant no longer tenable.
Relish opened in late 2012, first as...
Way back when, Lent was much more rigorous a religious requirement than it is nowadays, but, still, feasting on Easter is a tradition many restaurants are glad to help out with.
Taking the family out to a sumptuous brunch...
Baking for Passover is among the trickier cooking tasks a dedicated baker can confront. Wheat flour is verboten, no corn product sweeteners either.
But baking tempting desserts for Passover can be done, as Paula Shoyer will demonstrate Thursday, April 10...
The first big Derby season social event is fast approaching.
Taste of Derby will be Wednesday, April 9, 5:30-8:30 p.m. at Louisville Slugger Field, its venue for the past several years.
Beneficiaries of the event will be the clients of...
Longtime Crescent Hill down-market favorite Darkstar Tavern has been sold to the owners of Bluegrass Brewing Co.
Darkstar owners will move into the River Road space that used to be Eva Mae’s. There is no definite word yet from BBC...
It seems we may be in a race to see what saturates the market first–hookah cafés or pizza places.
The newest addition to the ever-expanding choices of pizza restaurants is East of Chicago, the first Kentucky location of an Ohio-based...
Back in the Middle Ages, Christians were prohibited from eating any meat at all during Lent.
Fish was permitted, regarded, somehow, as equivalent to fasting (go figure). Thus the now quaint and largely disregarded modern notion of having to abstain...
We have long held that the special wine dinners various restaurants offer are among the best entertainment values in town.
Chefs try out dishes not on their regular menus that pair best with the range of wines that visiting wine...
After the long, hard winter, new life is beginning to blossom. News of new restaurants is coming in fast.
More pizza choices will arrive with Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza, a build-your-own artisanal pizza chain, expected to open later in 2014; Bar...
The 16-outlet Indianapolis-based chain will expand substantially, if plans and hopes materialize. The first outlets will likely be in Middletown, and near U of L, but no definite sites have been announced yet, according to a recent Business First...
