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.
Saturday, Sept. 6, from 4:30-8:30 p.m., six Louisville restaurant chefs will put on their grilling aprons to create a Backyard BBQ dinner to benefit Home of the Innocents.
The 9th annual fund-raiser will be led this year by Brown Hotel...
The traveling porkfest known as Cochon Heritage BBQ will make a return stop in Louisville Sunday, Sept. 7 at 21c Museum Hotel, 700 W. Main St. A less formal offshoot of the long-running Cochon 555 project of food entrepreneur...
According to a post on Louisville Hotbytes, the city’s oldest Thai restaurant, Thai-Siam, at 3002 Bardstown Rd. in the Gardiner Lane Shopping Center, closed abruptly at the end of last week. The notification of the closing was a type-written...
Wednesday, Sept. 3 at 6:30 p.m. Seviche’s owner/chef Anthony Lamas will collaborate with chef Tim Tibbits of Flying Fish restaurant in Freeport, the Bahamas, for create a 9-course dinner featuring re-imagined Caribbean and Latin cuisine. Flying Fish sommelier Rebecca...
Several weeks ago F&D reported that a Cooking Channel TV show was filming in Louisville. Monday, Sept. 1, those of you who watch such stuff can see the results on “Bite This,” hosted by someone called Nadia G., who...
Wednesday and Thursday, Aug. 27 and 28, 1147 Lilly’s, Bardstown Rd., will host special guest chefs Gina Stipo and Lea Ann Vessels who will create a 5-course Italian dinner featuring the foods and wines of Tuscany.
Gina Stipo has lived...
Thursday, Aug 28, 6:30 p.m., Varanese, Frankfort Ave., will celebrate the start of the new Broadway in Louisville theater season with a 4-course dinner inspired by shows on the new season’s schedule. During the meal, diners will sample tastings...
Thursday, Aug. 28, at 6:30 p.m., Corbett’s: An American Place will host a 7-course dinner to celebrate the publication of “Country Ham: A Southern Tradition of Hogs, Salt & Smoke,” written by local author, Steve Coomes.
Six Kentucky chefs–Dean Corbett,...
A flurry of activity in the local restaurant world has seen two new eating places open, and another one set to open for November.
Dark Star, Crescent Hill’s favorite dive bar, has relocated to 6325 Upper River Road, in the...
A recent vacation road trip to the East Cost and back unreeled one green vista after another — the Bluegrass, West Virginia’s forested mountains, the rolling lush fields and tree-covered hills of the Southern Tier across lower New York...
