Games, grains and grub: Recbar 812 readies for February 3 opening
With 25,256 square feet on two levels, small wonder it's taken Corey Sims and Tony Thomas nine months to remodel the cavernous building at 336 Pearl Street in downtown New Albany into Recbar 812,...
Double-fisted Whiskey Row, with Alley and Expo
We return to the perpetual motion of Whiskey Row for two updates. Leading off is Louisville Business First's Marty Finley with a report on the proposal to convert a one-block section of Washington Street...
Edibles & Potables: Craft breweries, politics … and that pesky tightrope
“While you have to balance an awareness of which communities you’re embedded in and what kinds of people you see, there’s an increased weighing of the moral imperative as a business owner to take...
Donum Dei Brewery’s chili cook-off to benefit APRON
APRON will be on the agenda when New Albany's Donum Dei Brewery hosts its 3rd Annual Chili Cook-Off on Sunday, January 26 (3211 Grant Line Road #3).
3rd Annual Chili Cook-Off benefiting Apron, Inc. Suggested...
Four Bourbon Short Pours
A wide array of news items comes across our desks at Food & Dining Magazine, and at times it's best to sample the highlights just a few wee nips at a time.
Your humble correspondent...
Fred Minnick’s new podcast pairs bourbon with music and musicians
The writer and media personality Fred Minnick is best described as an apostle of bourbonism -- lower case and generalized, encompassing all things bourbon-related.
Recently Minnick, an Oklahoman who married a Kentuckian and became the...
Edibles & Potables: This wine critic is not staying dry in January
Writing in the San Francisco Chronicle, wine critic Esther Mobley discusses the phenomenon of Dry January, noting that such a concept now exists even in France. Given that French wine consumption continues to fall,...
Amaro — Anarchy in a Glass
The typical well-stocked backbar in Louisville – or anywhere in America, for that matter – gives off an amber glow as stately and authoritative as the burnished chambers of an old-school attorney. As evidence...
EXCLUSIVE: Monnik Beer Co. plans brewery, kitchen in New Albany at the former NABC...
Submitted for your approval, two seemingly unrelated local beer facts.
Monnik Beer Co. opened in Germantown in 2015 and enjoys a reputation as one of Louisville's finest breweries. Meanwhile the New Albanian Brewing Company's Bank...
Edibles & Potables: In the United Kingdom, the number of pubs is rising
And now for something completely different, at least for Food & Dining Magazine.
In the past we've tended to take Sundays off from web site posting, but in 2020 our writers will be casting about...
