Wednesday, May 1, 2024

Dinner and a movie at the new Speed Museum

The new Speed Museum’s emphasis on cinema, and the return of food service to the museum was the perfect opportunity to combine new ideas, which have resulted in the CineCuisine program at the Speed...

Varanese Progressive Dinner visits 3 restaurants

If you have been undecided about which of chef/restaurateur John Varanese’s three restaurants – Varanese on Frankfort Ave., River House or Levee at the River House, both on River Rd.– to dine at, you...

Fast-casual Asian street food at Mirin on Frankfort Ave.

Griffin Paulin has transferred the love he has for Asian street foods, and his experience in preparing them at the now-defunct Rumplings, into Mirin, at 2011 Frankfort Avenue in Clifton. His new fast-casual restaurant...

A Bobby Flay restaurant in Louisville? Maybe

Food TV’s Bobby Flay, who attends the yearling sales at Keeneland, is reported to be scoping out Louisville as a cite for a new restaurant in his little empire (he already has 8 restaurants,...

Q&A: Chef Matt Weber of Uptown Cafe

Matt Weber will be the first to tell you he’s not part of Louisville’s chef fraternity. But he is part of a restaurant family of sorts, working since he was 18 in Nancy Shepherd’s Uptown...

Whiskey Dry Opens: Chef Edward Lee and Stacie Stewart Describe the Journey

Chef Edward Lee’s newest concept Whiskey Dry opens today on 4th St. Live! He said this bar has been two years in the making, and a lot of thought went into expanding the discussion...

Madeleine Dee to open Fond, an artisanal grocery, on Frankfort Ave.

Madeleine Dee, whose personal chef business No Place Like Home has been pleasing clients with her preparation of elaborate private dinners for several years now, is planning to open a specialty grocery store at...

Four Time James Beard Award Winner Michael Solomonov Hosting Dinner in Louisville

On Wednesday, May 15, The Jewish Community Center welcomes world-renowned chef, entrepreneur and humanitarian Michael Solomonov for an intimate night of food, friends and supporting youth programs at The J. Seating is limited to...

Royals Hot Chicken shakes down with week of soft openings

The new year promises to see the opening of several long-announced and long-awaited restaurant openings. One of the most anticipated is Louisville’s second entry into the Nashville-style hot chicken movement, Royals Hot Chicken, the...

Chef Edward Lee on 2020: The power of a meal is hope

I suspect we'll all look back at the days and weeks preceding the pandemic's full-bore arrival in March, and if we're being honest, recall them with the same sense of ominous foreshadowing typically felt...