Tuesday, May 7, 2024

Wine dinners fill up fast with food and wine cognoscenti

 With the popularity of special wine dinners around town by those in the know, who realize what a good value they are, how they showcase chefs’ originality and culinary scope, and how they introduce...

Couvillion (PHOTOS) Opens April 16, Features Local Ingredients in Deep Southern Dishes

Couvillion, Louisville’s new deep south restaurant in the former Finn’s building at the Germantown Lofts at 1318 McHenry St, is set to open April 16. The restaurant will be open Monday, Wednesday, Thursday and...

Local Chef Ed Lee news – new TV show, a pair of restaurants and more

There is a lot of Ed Lee news in recent weeks. Restaurateur Edward Lee, of 610 Magnolia and Milkwood renown locally, in addition to opening soon Whiskey Dry at Fourth St. Live!, is planning a...

Chef Ouita Michel’s first cookbook is coming soon

Chef Ouita Michel featured prominently in Monday's culinary news cycle, as she has authored her first cookbook with collaborators Sara Gibbs and Genie Graf. Just a Few Miles South: Timeless Recipes from our Favorite Places...

Edibles & Potables: Historian Adrian Miller remembers David McAtee

(Cover photo credit: Walter & Marshae Smith at West of Ninth. Don't miss their column at LEO Weekly: "David McAtee, in his words.") Adrian Miller is the Soul Food Scholar. "I’m a recovering lawyer and politico...

SuperChefs finds permanent home

For several years, Darnell Ferguson has been both satisfying diners and teasing them with his semi-permanent pop-up restaurants in odd spaces–breakfasts in the back of Chicago Gyro, breakfast and lunch in the rear of...

Lee Initiative Announces Second Group of Mentees, Hosts Kick Off Party Friday

Lindsey Ofcacek and Edward Lee are launching the second year of The LEE Initiative with a party at the KMAC Museum on Friday, March 15 at 5:30 p.m. Guests at the party will meet the new class of chef mentees while enjoying...
Easy Entertaining: Downtown Triple Crown

Easy Entertaining: Downtown Triple Crown

On the first Saturday in May, Derby season is celebrated in Kentucky and throughout the region. As we hope for another Triple Crown winner, people begin the festivities weeks before the Derby, party hard...

Max Powers joins the Ostra culinary team as sous chef and artist

Chef Adam "Hammerheads, Game & Migo" Burress and his business partners at Ostra (1758 Frankfort Avenue) want you to know that Max Powers is in the house as sous chef and artist:  "Max Powers, as...

Local SuperChefs Chef Darnell Ferguson Wins on Food Network

We want to say congratulations to Darnell for his big win on the Food Network's Ultimate Thanksgiving Challenge, which netted him a $25,000 prize. The three episode mini-series challenged contestants to think outside the...