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PROFILES

Profiles of Restaurants, Chefs, Restauranteurs, Food Growers, Food Purveyors and more.

Kentubano daydreamin’: Marcos Lorenzo and his Havana Rumba and Mojito family of restaurants

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/vol_81_-_spring_2024/22 Louisville, best known for bourbon, the Kentucky Derby and Muhammad Ali, is now home to the fastest-growing Cuban community in the country. The current print edition of F&D (Spring 2024) features my profile of restaurateur...

$10 Challenge: The Fish House & Cafe Beignet

I had to try The Fish House when the restaurant received my mother’s seal of approval. Mommy has always been a notoriously finicky eater. And a few years ago, a doctor diagnosed her with a...

Pick 3 — Buck’s Restaurant Profile

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...

Wiltshire at the Speed — talents combine for artful eating

For three years a massive project has been going on at the Speed Art Museum, a transformation of the staid 1927 Neo-classical landmark into a new space that will be a center of education,...

Profile — Chad Coulter of LouVino and Biscuit Belly

From Pharm to Table A couple of young pharmacists are the entrepreneurs behind LouVino. (Originally published in the Summer 2019 issue of Food & Dining)  It’s early in the evening on a weeknight, and the sleekly contemporary,...

Pat’s Steak House — F&D’s restaurant profile

Pat's Steak House | 2437 Brownsboro Rd. | 502.893.2062 (This story originally appeared in the Spring 2023 print issue.) A Family Affair Since 1958 The distinctive Z-shaped sign shines shamrock green as motorists whoosh by on lower Brownsboro Road...

Cinco de Mayo 2: The family recipes endure at Mi Casita

Our 2019 profile of Mi Casita Parrilla Mexicana focused on the eatery's perennially popular downtown location, which has temporarily suspended operations owing to the pandemic-enforced removal of its best customers: the local work force...

Havana Rumba Express & Tapas Bar

Cuban goes fast-casual—But wait! There’s more! Marcos Lorenzo and his Havana Rumba co-owners had a goal when they came up with the concept for Havana Rumba Express and Tapas Bar: lean, mean, and easily replicated. But...

Ale: There’s an app for that

Buckhead’s  tablets help make your beer choice better . Human nature often displays a yearning for simpler times — a slower pace of life, fewer worries, and a return to the good old days. Consider how...

The Fish House – F&D’s restaurant profile

The Fish House | 1310 Winter Ave. | 502.568.2993 (This story originally appeared in the Summer 2021 print issue.) Moving to the Head of the Line Twenty-two centuries ago, when the Greek mathematician Archimedes was figuring out...