Sunday, April 28, 2024

Blue Dog Bakery offshoot Red Hog returning to Crescent Hill

The entrepreneurial spirit of Louisville’s restaurateurs seems unquenchable. Among the restaurant owners who have carved out a strong niche in the market, but look to plow new ground are Kit Garrett and Bobby Hancock, co-owners...

Madeleine Dee’ s TV show needs your help

Madeleine Dee, who has been a personal chef, and now runs Fond, a locally-focused small grocery and dinner restaurant, is trying to branch out into TV, with her proposed series “The Seasoned Cynic's Guide...

Tart Tatin, facts and factoids

Every now and then, a particular dish or its recipe, for mysterious reasons, develops a certain mystique, or cachet, a history, usually opaque and disputed, that some regard as tasty as–or even tastier than–the...

Wine dinners fill up fast with food and wine cognoscenti

 With the popularity of special wine dinners around town by those in the know, who realize what a good value they are, how they showcase chefs’ originality and culinary scope, and how they introduce...

Nashville-style hot chicken is Tony Palombino’s newest venture

Once the now-defunct 60 West Bistro is converted into a Tony BoomBozz Pizza & Taphouse at 3939 Lexington Rd. in St. Matthews owner Tony Palombino plans on turning his Boombozz Famous Pizza location at...

Highland Morning expands into St. Matthews

The popular Bardstown Rd. breakfast and brunch restaurant Highland Morning, which always seems to have a crowd outside and inside whenever I drive past, is planning to open a second location in St. Matthews....

Shiraz Mediterranean Grill in expansive mood

Shiraz Mediterranean Grill, which currently has three stores in Louisville, is planning on adding three more in the area within the next year, and is considering expanding outward to Lexington, Elizabethtown and Frankfort, Insider...

The Pearl replaces Pauly’s, keeps the old-school corner bar feel

El Camino and The Silver Dollar co-owner Larry Rice has assumed ownership of the former Paul’s Schitzelburg Pub at 1151 Goss Ave., on the corner of Goss and Texas in Germantown. Rice and co-owner Shawn...

SuperChefs finds permanent home

For several years, Darnell Ferguson has been both satisfying diners and teasing them with his semi-permanent pop-up restaurants in odd spaces–breakfasts in the back of Chicago Gyro, breakfast and lunch in the rear of...

Ballotin Chocolate Whiskey celebrates National Chocolate Day – and APRON

Saturday, Oct. 28, from 3-6 p.m., Ballotin Chocolate Whiskey is sponsoring a special chocolate tasting event in Louisville and Lexington at the Springhurst Liquor Barn, 4301 Town Center Drive, and the Hamburg Liquor Barn...