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RESTAURANTS

All features, profiles news and updates on restaurants in and around Louisville Kentucky

New owner at Barcelona Bistro Bar in Jeffersontown, same great Spanish cuisine

It's difficult to believe that almost ten years have passed since De La Torres departed the scene. https://foodanddine.com/de-la-torres-sold/ At the risk of over-simplification, there isn't a single monolithic Spanish cookbook to emulate. Rather, it's Catalonia, Asturias,...

Afternoon Archive: Dallas McGarity and The Fat Lamb Modern Kitchen and Bar

Chef Dallas McGarity and The Fat Lamb are cooking straight through the coronavirus, with curbside pickup at 2011 Grinstead Drive (call 502-409-7499 or order online) and delivery via DoorDash. Hours are 11:00 a.m. -...

100 years of Wagner’s Pharmacy, a local backside icon

"Wagner’s is Churchill Downs; Churchill Downs is Wagner’s: A Louisville Tradition Since 1922 - Diner, Fountain, Souvenir Gift Shop, General Store and Turf Goods." If, like me, you hold the view that independent local businesses...

Big Four Burgers resuscitates the old South Side Inn

Many lunch time diners on both sides of the river recall with fondness the funky authenticity of the old South Side Inn cafeteria, 114 E. Main St, New Albany, which had a 50-year-plus run...

Clarksville Is About To See A Storming Crab

A Clarksville, Tennessee (yes, Tennessee) boiled Cajun seafood restaurant is coming to Clarksville, Indiana - and that's not the only coincidence. The Tennessee restaurant is on Lowes Drive, and the new Indiana restaurant opens...

Chicken Salad Chick fast-casual restaurant coming to Jeffersonville Town Center

“Chicken salad has a certain glamour about it. Like the little black dress, it is chic and adaptable anywhere” -- Laurie Colwin, "Home Cooking" The first Indiana franchise of the Alabama-based Chicken Salad Chick fast-casual...

Do Drop Inn to the High Horse, a new bar coming soon to Butchertown

For a decade the NuLu and Butchertown perimeters have inched ever closer, and yet the public perception remains that they're entirely separate neighborhoods. Louisville City FC's new stadium to the north stands to become...

Del Frisco’s to reopen this fall in the East End at the former Z’s...

This saga of displacement began during the summer of 2019 at 4107 Oechsli Avenue in St. Matthews, home of the venerable Del Frisco's Steakhouse, which was founded in 1981 as the first restaurant in...

Loreal Gavin announced as the new executive chef at Harvest

Loreal Gavin is a sixth generation farmer, author of The Butcher Babe Cookbook, a talented artist, and a television personality (Gavin's digital series on CMT is Downtown Farmer). Gavin's also the new Executive Chef at...

Napa + Jared Matthews = Osteria Italian Seafood (opening Sept. 26)

In late May we took a look at the evolving "Napa Now, Osteria Later" project at 1211 Herr Lane in Westport Village. https://foodanddine.com/napa-changes-ownership-to-become-osteria-italian-seafood/ The preview went like this: Jared Matthews, emerging food and drink “mogul” of St....