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.
Wild Ginger, 1700 Bardstown Rd., is beginning a lunch service of bento boxes, the popular Asian multi-course packaged lunch to go. The 11 selections include teriyaki California with chicken or shrimp teriyaki or beef bulgogi, Katsu bento with chicken,...
Monday, Oct. 20 the Mayan Cafe, E. market St., will host a 3-course vegetarian dinner featuring the wines of Talley Vineyards, focusing on their Bishop's Peak bottlings.
Brian Talley, owner and winemaker from Talley Vineyards, will not only be on...
Barely a week after a passel of Louisville chefs publicly voiced their longing for a good ramen-style noodle shop, Dustin Staggers, owner of the recently opened Roux and former executive chef at Monkey Wrench, has stepped up to the...
Copper and Kings, 1111 E. Washington St., will be the venue for the 2nd Annual Butchertown Porktoberfest, Friday, Oct. 10 from 5-10 p.m. There will be live music by Billy Goat Strut Revue, local brew from Apocalypse Brewery, cocktails...
The Bourbon Review, a Lexington-based publication whose coverage is easily deduced from its name, has surveyed the country region by region to determine the 60 top bourbon bars nationwide. Eight of them are in Louisville, which is almost half...
After a fairly quick renovation of the space at 1702 Bardstown Rd., owners of Wild Eggs and Wild Rita’s, Shane Hall and J. D. Rotherburg , are scheduled to open Strati Wild Italian Sept. 29. Wild Eggz Director of Marketing, Lauren Henson...
Renovation is still under way, but co-owner and chef Dustin Staggers, who is doing a lot of the work himself, along with family and friends, is looking for an early October opening for his NOLA-influenced new restaurant, Roux. It...
IdeaFestival, the annual gathering of national and international Big Thinkers who present cutting-edge ideas in science, the arts and community design, will be joined this year by several area restaurants for the first Ideas Night Out on Thursday, Oct....
Thursday, Oct. 2, 6:30-9:30 p.m., Bistro 1860 Wine Bar, 1765 Mellwood Ave., will celebrate Cowboy Month with a Cowboy Dinner on the patio.
The menu will be based on what people ate in 1860. That will include sourdough biscuits with molasses,...
IdeaFestival gets an early start with a dinner Tonight at 6 p.m. at Harvest, 624 E. Market St., in collaboration with Four Roses Bourbon and Legends nightclub. Proceeds from the dinner will benefit YADDA, a local group that provides...
