Thursday, April 25, 2024

PROFILES

Profiles of Restaurants, Chefs, Restauranteurs, Food Growers, Food Purveyors and more.

Heitzman’s — Going strong after four generations.

It all started in 1891, when her great-granddad, Jacob Heitzman, opened Heitzman’s Bakery. In 1924, her grandfather, Charles, took over. In 1954, her parents took the helm and added a catering division. Fifteen years...

Vincenzo’s is ideal for a wedding anniversary meal — today, in fact

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/summer_2023_vol._78_/30 From F&D's Summer 2023 issue, our 20th Anniversary compendium, comes this profile of Vincenzo's Italian Restaurant (downtown at 150 S. Fifth St.) Read it at the issuu link, and at some point when time...

$10 Challenge— Toonerville Deli

I had never eaten a Reuben before I visited Toonerville Deli. As a kid, this type of sandwich intimidated me. Maybe the flavors were too complex for my naïve palate. I wasn’t stuck on...

Sapporo Profile

One of Louisville’s most popular sushi venues is the creation of Mi and U Kim, who met over a sushi bar where U was the chef and Mi an enthusiastic customer. “In a short time...

Ditto’s Grill and Stevens Deli: “The Art of Figuring it Out”

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/summer_2023_vol._78_/38 Until F&D's contributing writer Cary Stemle schooled me, I had no idea that the 1920s-era building at 1114 Bardstown Road, which became home to Ditto's Grill and Stevens Deli, previously had been "a Model...

The Rise of West Louisville Dining

There is something happening in West Louisville that should interest foodies all over the city. In this issue of Food & Dining we list 21 sit-down restaurants west of Ninth Street, by far the...

Josh Moore: A Rising Star Ready To Shine

Scattered around the fields of Josh Moore’s farm in Taylorsville are several pieces of antique farm equipment. To some they might look like rusting hulks, but Moore appreciates the way time and weather have turned...

Butchertown Grocery — A kitchen of his own

Three friends open the Butchertown Grocery, a culinary and entertainment venue where the community can get its collective groove on. Quantum mechanics established long ago that one person could not exist in two places at...

Chef Q&A: The Oakroom’s Patrick Roney

Patrick Roney spent 10 years working as a private chef on yachts. He moved to Louisville two and a half years ago with one goal in mind – to work at the Oakroom, Louisville’s...

Kentubano daydreamin’: Marcos Lorenzo and his Havana Rumba and Mojito family of restaurants

https://issuu.com/foodanddiningmagazine/docs/vol_81_-_spring_2024/22 Louisville, best known for bourbon, the Kentucky Derby and Muhammad Ali, is now home to the fastest-growing Cuban community in the country. The current print edition of F&D (Spring 2024) features my profile of restaurateur...