Saturday, April 27, 2024

Incredible Dave’s closes abruptly

In F&D’s listings, Incredible Dave’s, 9236 Westport Rd., was shelved under “Entertainment Dining,” with places that offered performances, like The Bardstown and Derby Dinner Playhouse, or amusements, like Joe Huber’s Family Farm. Incredible Dave’s offered...

Spirited cooking class at Moonshine U.

Thursday, Aug. 21 from 6 to 8 p.m., Moonshine University, 801 S. 8th St., will offer a cooking class, Bourbon in the Kitchen with Albert Schmid, a Sullivan University professor and author of “The...

Cocktail tips from a mixology pro

Thursday, Aug. 21, at 7 p.m., Sean Thibodeaux, mixologist from St. Charles Exchange, will lead a class on concocting a few of his favorite cocktails mace with Woodford Reserve Bourbon. The class will be held...

BBC set to release its first bottled brew

BBC Taproom, 636 E.Main St. will launch its first commercially-packaged lager, a modern first for a local craft brewery. Louisville Lager has been brewed to be “an everyman’s/woman’s lager for everyday drinking,” according to...

King Estate Wine Dinner at Varanese

Monday and Tuesday, Aug. 18 and 19, 7-9 p.m. Varanese, 2106 Frankfort Ave. will host its monthly wine dinner, this month featuring wines of King Estates, of Willamette Valley, Oregon, all of which will...

Calling all chili chefs! Enter cook-off for a good cause

If you are a restaurant chef and have a chili recipe that you have been hoarding, here is your chance to show it off and get muchos kudos. On Oct. 11, Sam Swope Auto Group,...

Recent restaurant nostalgia

An outbreak of restaurant nostalgia seems to have broken out recently, if a couple of posts that sprang up on my news feeds recently is any indication. Various social media posts mooned over once-popular...

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...

Lamas to use a cookbook for special dinner!

Of course, it will be his own cookbook, the forthcoming "Southern Heat" written with Gwen Pratesi, who will be a guest at the event. The dinner marking the publication of Anthony Lamas’s first cookbook...

My father would have approved of this

My old man was a laboring man, a skilled welder who fabricated and repaired big machinery. When he would stop in at a bar after work, there was only one drink for him, a...