Friday, May 3, 2024

Varanese wine dinner to benefit The V Foundation

Thursday, Oct. 23, 7-9 p.m., Varanese, Frankfort Ave., will host a wine dinner featuring pairings of wines from the portfolio of Constellation Brands. Bob Valvano, sportscaster, former basketball coach and brother of the late...

Decca to highlight Jay Denham’s Woodlands Pork

Pork celebrations continue unabated. Soon Cincinnati will have to surrender the title of "Porkopolis" if special pork parties continue–and they will. The next such pig-centered shindig will be a Whole Hog Pig Pickin' Wednesday, Oct....

Menu revamp at La Coop

Chef Bobby Benjamin at La Coop: Bistro à Vins, 732 E. Market St., has introduced some menu changes. The newly added dishes focus more on seasonal produce, and several sharable are now available. One...

Crime Stoppers chili cook-off Saturday

Saturday, Oct. 11, 11a.m. to 6 p.m. Sam Swope Auto Group, 10 Swope Auto Center Dr., will sponsor the first annual Crime Stoppers Chili Cook-off, in which police and fire fighters from around the...

Bento box lunches in the Highlands

Wild Ginger, 1700 Bardstown Rd., is beginning a lunch service of bento boxes, the popular Asian multi-course packaged lunch to go.  The 11 selections include teriyaki California with chicken or shrimp teriyaki or beef...

Vegetarian wine dinner at Mayan Cafe

Monday, Oct. 20 the Mayan Cafe, E. market St., will host a 3-course vegetarian dinner featuring the wines of Talley Vineyards, focusing on their Bishop's Peak bottlings. Brian Talley, owner and winemaker from Talley Vineyards,...

Just what everyone has been waiting for — a noodle shop!

Barely a week after a passel of Louisville chefs publicly voiced their longing for a good ramen-style noodle shop, Dustin Staggers, owner of the recently opened Roux and former executive chef at Monkey Wrench,...

More pork hi-jinx in Butchertown

Copper and Kings, 1111 E. Washington St., will be the venue for the 2nd Annual Butchertown Porktoberfest, Friday, Oct. 10 from 5-10 p.m. There will be live music by Billy Goat Strut Revue, local...

The Bourbon Review lauds 8 Louisville bars

The Bourbon Review, a Lexington-based publication whose coverage is easily deduced from its name, has surveyed the country region by region to determine the 60 top bourbon bars nationwide. Eight of them are in...

Two openings and two closings

After a fairly quick renovation of the space at 1702 Bardstown Rd., owners of Wild Eggs and Wild Rita’s, Shane Hall and J. D. Rotherburg , are scheduled to open Strati Wild Italian Sept. 29.  Wild...