Friday, May 3, 2024

Pizza Hut going hip

Pizza Hut, a part of the Yum! Brands fast-food empire, and purveyor of middle-of-the-road pizza to Middle America, is rethinking its image.  In addition to an updating of its familiar red roof logo, the...

Belly up to new Heaven Hill bar at Yum! Center

The main concourse at the KFC Yum! Center has a new attraction for thirsty fans in the upper level seats who need some relief from their happy shouting for the winning Cardinals (and other...

Dundee Tavern to change hands and name, keep the ambience

The Dundee Tavern, long-time anchor of the dining and entertainment corridor along Dundee Rd. off Bardstown Rd. at the Douglass Loop, has been sold to Chris Ross and Susan Conway, who have worked as a...

Two closings, one sudden and the other protracted

A bar and grill in Louisville, and a popular coffee house and cafe in Jeffersonville have recently announced their closings. Mulligan’s Pub & Grille, 1801 Newburg Rd. (a location that will forever referred to in...

Brown Hotel offers two options for Thanksgiving dinner

For some families, going out to eat for Thanksgiving has been a happy tradition: good food; pleasant, emotionally neutral surroundings; people waiting on you and no cleaning up. (Usually no leftovers either, but you...

K.T.’s gets new owner; Austin’s sold for other uses

Two long-standing, American roadhouse style restaurants and watering holes, K.T.'s and Austin's have been sold to new owners. The popular, long-lived Lexington Rd. restaurant and bar, K.T.’s has been sold to Kevin Grangier, owner of...

3 Wine dinners on the horizon

In the coming weeks, diners will have three interesting choices–at Palermo Viejo, Varanese, and the Bristol Bar& Grille, Jeffersonville, Ind.–for special wine dinners, which have long been one of the best values for dining...

8 Up joins the fray atop Hilton Garden Inn

The newest competitor for Louisvillians’ dining dollars is set to open Monday 11/17. 8 Up Elevated Drinkery and Kitchen defines its location precisely, on the eighth floor of the Hilton Garden Inn, the newest...

Ramen fans rejoice: Rumplings is now serving

It’s been a busy month for Griffin Paulin and Dustin Staggers, who, no sooner than they had opened the NOLA-inspired Cajun restaurant Roux, announced plans to open a noodle and dumpling shop at 2009...

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...