Hip Hops: From Awry’s arrival to 502 Beer Appreciation Day, it’s a potpourri Wednesday
It is reported that last Saturday evening at an establishment in New Albany, a customer approached the bar and told the bartender he could no longer drink Bud Light because—well, we can guess why—and...
Chef Stooksbury Rescheduled At Mesa With Shrimp, Steak and Whiskeys June 2
We recently reported on Chef Miranda Stooksbury, Owner of Clover and the Greens, and her three course meal with cocktail pairings at MESA that had to be rescheduled. It's been rescheduled for June 2nd,...
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...
Hip Hops: Erin Go Blagh 2022, the timeless St. Paddy’s etiquette primer
"I am in Aranmor, sitting over a turf fire, listening to a murmur of Gaelic that is rising from a little public-house under my room."
― J.M. Synge, The Aran Islands
Each year as St. Patrick's...
F&D Bourbon Columnist Launches Bourbon Club With Discounts, Events and More
Food & Dining bourbon columnist Steve Akley is launching a unique bourbon club July 1 that will offer discounts, events and behind-the-scenes access for bourbon lovers. Membership to the #ABVNetworkCrew Club is $48 per...
Bourbon News & Notes: Grab your coat and get your hat, Pappy season is...
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – 9 October, 2020, by Susan Reigler
The Pappy Game is Afoot
Buffalo Trace Distillery announced this week that the yearly distribution of highly allocated Pappy Van Winkle whiskeys is pending. Here...
Apertif hour at Meta; late night chow at Monkey Wrench
Meta, the relatively new watering hold on the corner of Fifth and Chestnut, is rolling out a relatively new drink concept–the apertif hour. Instead of specials on bloating beer or alcohol-heavy cocktails, Meta wants...
Edibles & Potables: Bhang Lassi soothes the dog days — in India, not Louisville
It's been a relatively mild summer in Louisville, but the dog days seem to have arrived, and as occurs only rarely amid the cliches of western culture, coinage of the term "dog days" actually...
Hip Hops: Roosted Chiquen rye whiskey and amber lager, and the impact of custom...
My support for innovation is consistent, even if the traditionalist in me shakes the occasional fist at modernity.
Guinness Open Gate Brewery in Maryland is bringing us two bourbon barrel aged stouts just in time...
Kaelin’s Spot Reopening as “80/20at Kaelin’s; Tiki Bar Opens Downtown
Kaelin's at 1801 Newburg Rd. will find a resurrection in late March or April when 80/20 at Kaelin's opens after over $1 million and about two years of planning and renovation.  It has long been urban...
