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Ron Mikulak

Ron Mikulak
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(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.
The new-style White Castle—no longer the gleaming Porcelain Palace of the past, but now with craggy off-white stone tower—is back with its inimitable approximation of food. The Trinity guys have been bereft of sliders for a dozen years, but now...
Chefs and restaurateurs from the U.S., Canada and Mexico will meet in a Distinguished Restaurants of North America conference Oct. 5-8 at the Brown Hotel. DiRoNA was founded in 1990 to raise dining standards and promote fine dining in North...
Sidebar,  129 N. Second St. in the Whiskey Row Lofts, will step out of its usual niche of burgers and salads, with a four-course Wild Turkey Dinner to honor Master Distiller Jimmy Russell’s 60th year in the Bourbon business. Sidebar’s...
The little shotgun house across from the Mid-City Mall has seen many restaurants come and go, most recently Kashmir Indian, which has moved a few doors down.  Now the site at 1285 Bardstown Rd. is The Joy Luck. The owner,...
It has been reported that Gralehaus,  has opened in the house behind the Holy Grale’s beer garden, at 1001 Baxter Ave. The cafe is the first step in further expanding the little empire from the team behind Holy Grale and Louisville Beer...
By the entrance to Buck’s, the elegant restaurant on the ground floor of the quietly chic Mayflower Apartments building in Old Louisville, there is a curious plaque, listing all the different restaurants that have tried to make a go...
Quad Cafe, located in the always-interesting Quartermaster Center in Jeffersonville, turned a year old this month, and celebrated by adding Southern Indiana's first J. Gumbo's. Mark Swank, owner of Quad Cafe, 103 Quartermaster Ct.,  has long been a devotee of...
The annual nominations for James Beard awards have been announced, and local chefs Edward Lee, of 610 Magnolia and Milkwood, and Kathy Cary of Lilly's, have again been nominated as semi-finalists for Best Chef in the Southeast. Eater Louisville has...
“Best Chefs America Presents: The American South,” the first in a series of regional guides to American cuisine, has recognized a number of Louisville chefs. Included in 2014 edition are Bobby Benjamin, Adam Burress, Kathy Cary, Dean Corbett, Anthony Lamas,...
Apparently even when you cook a menu that varies daily with available fresh ingredients as Tyler Morris and his staff at Rye do, you get a little antsy.  So, why not try a pop-up restaurant that stretches your cooking...