Thursday, March 28, 2024

James Beard Award Finalists announced

The James Beard Foundation has released their 2019 list of semifinalists for the James Beard Awards, and one Kentuckian has made the list.  While non of our state's fine chefs are on the list...

Julie DeFriend named GM for 8UP

Julie DeFriend, who has had a long and varied career in several top area restaurants, has been named General Manager at 8UP Elevated Drinkery & Kitchen, the restaurant atop the Hilton Garden Inn at...

Louisville’s own Damaris Phillips is Food Network ‘Next Star’

Damaris Phillips, a culinary arts instructor at Jefferson Community and Technical College, is the Next Food Network Star. The competition, which pits multiple contestants against each other to win a Food Network series of their...

Copper & Kings gets shout-out from beverage industry magazine

“Beverage World,” an industry magazine that focuses on the global beverage market with coverage of  innovative producers, distributors and marketers, has listed Louisville’s Copper & Kings American Brandy Co. as one of 10 up-and-coming...

Guy Genoud of Brasserie Provence named state’s top restaurateur

Last month the Kentucky Restaurant Association bestowed a variety of honors on owners and workers in the state’s restaurant industry. Among the most notable of the awards was the naming of Guy Genoud, owner...

National G names Louisville one of the world’s best food cities!

Unfortunately, what catches the National Geographic’s editors’ fancy, and therefore merits this seemingly exalted notice, is merely the Hot Brown, which the magazine’s web page describes as “an open-faced turkey sandwich on Texas toast...

Proof on Main, Feast BBQ and The Ville win notice and awards

Louisville chefs and restaurants have been getting some national press lately, nowhere near enough, in some people’s eyes, but every bit helps to let others know the good things that are happening here. Eater, the...

Alas! Lou comes in at # 2

Last Friday USA Today announced the winners of their Best Local Food Scene readers’ poll, and Louisville’s food scene did not garner enough vote to come in on top. But it was second, topping...

Buck’s celebrates  25th anniversary

During the 1980s, the roomy, elegant dining space on the ground level of The Mayflower apartment building at 425 W. Ormsby Ave. saw a rather rapid succession of restaurants come and go. The full...

Bourbons Bistro to fete distiller Jimmy Russell

Tonight, Wednesday, Aug. 13, Bourbons Bistro, 2255 Frankfort Ave., will host a four-course Wild Turkey Bourbon dinner to recognize Wild Turkey’s master distiller Jimmy Russell’s 60 years in the industry. At the dinner, Russell will...