Loop 22 refocuses menu
Eric Morris, co-owner of Loop 22, 2222 Dundee Rd., will refocus the menu on value-priced small plates and bargain well drinks. The changes were prompted by the rigors of a weird first year, plagued...
Irish Exit to morph into Don Vito’s Italian Bistro
Southern Indiana restaurateur Matt McMahan has leased the property he ran as The Irish Exit, at 207 E. Main St. in New Albany, to Kyle and Ulrike Mullikin, who will open an upscale Italian...
Field-to-Fork dinner to benefit Food Literacy Project
Thursday, Sept. 18, 5:30 p.m., 8 chefs from Louisville’s top restaurants will collaborate to create a dinner to benefit the Food Literacy Project at Oxmoor Farm, the only local 501(c)(3) organization providing farm-based education...
Farmer Appreciation Dinner at Downtown Bristol
Wednesday, Sept. 17, 6:30 p.m., Bristol Bar & Grille Downtown’s chef Bill Lynch will celebrate the hard work and creativity of local farmers with his annual Farmer Appreciation Dinner. The six-course meal will showcase...
Did you miss local talent on TV cooking shows? Set your DVR and catch...
It’s always a hoot to see people you know on TV. (Why that is is one of the mysteries of the Modern World, in my estimation.) Anyway, Edward Lee begins his co-host duties this...
Restaurant tid-bits, September edition Part I
I. Anthony Lamas, chef/owner of Seviche, A Latin Restaurant, Bardstown Rd., is among more than a dozen chefs from around the country invited to the James Beard Foundation’s fifth Chefs Boot Camp for Policy...
Boombozz Taphouse to expand this fall
Tony Palombino, the ambitious pizza-meister behind the Boombozz Boombozz Craft Pizza & Taphouse concept, is in an expansion mode again, set to remodel the recently-closed BD’s Mongolian Grill space at 1890 S. Hurstbourne Pkwy...
Spanish Wine Dinner at Varanese
The wine dinners at Varanese, 2106 Frankfort Ave., give chef John Varanese and his crew a chance to branch out beyond the regular menu, and show the breadth of their kitchen skills.
The next such...
A Bobby Flay restaurant in Louisville? Maybe
Food TV’s Bobby Flay, who attends the yearling sales at Keeneland, is reported to be scoping out Louisville as a cite for a new restaurant in his little empire (he already has 8 restaurants,...
Apertif hour at Meta; late night chow at Monkey Wrench
Meta, the relatively new watering hold on the corner of Fifth and Chestnut, is rolling out a relatively new drink concept–the apertif hour. Instead of specials on bloating beer or alcohol-heavy cocktails, Meta wants...
