Friday, May 17, 2024

If you want to run a food truck, the Food Network wants to hear...

The casting call for Season 5 of "The Great Food Truck Race" on The Food Network is now open. Louisville seems to be the current darling of food reality TV.  The call is out for...

Get in the Derby spirit: create a burger!

The Derby prep races are under way. Futures betting has started.  The C-J has run a story about Derby hats—men's hats. And now, the third annual Derby Burger Challenge! The Kentucky Beef Council, always looking...

3 wine dinners this week offer special dishes and chance to explore new wines

Louisville diners have an embarrassment of riches this week.  211 Clover Lane, Limestone and Bristol Bar & Grill all are offering special wine dinners, events that are perhaps the best value in local dining. For...

DiRoNA Conference in October another feather in cap of Louisville food scene

Chefs and restaurateurs from the U.S., Canada and Mexico will meet in a Distinguished Restaurants of North America conference Oct. 5-8 at the Brown Hotel. DiRoNA was founded in 1990 to raise dining standards and...

Sidebar to Host Wild Turkey Dinner March 15

Sidebar,  129 N. Second St. in the Whiskey Row Lofts, will step out of its usual niche of burgers and salads, with a four-course Wild Turkey Dinner to honor Master Distiller Jimmy Russell’s 60th...

The Joy Luck opens on Bardstown Road

The little shotgun house across from the Mid-City Mall has seen many restaurants come and go, most recently Kashmir Indian, which has moved a few doors down.  Now the site at 1285 Bardstown Rd....

First J. Gumbo’s in Southern Indiana opens in Quad Cafe

Quad Cafe, located in the always-interesting Quartermaster Center in Jeffersonville, turned a year old this month, and celebrated by adding Southern Indiana's first J. Gumbo's. Mark Swank, owner of Quad Cafe, 103 Quartermaster Ct.,  has...

Louisville Chefs bring home more accolades.

“Best Chefs America Presents: The American South,” the first in a series of regional guides to American cuisine, has recognized a number of Louisville chefs. Included in 2014 edition are Bobby Benjamin, Adam Burress, Kathy...

Rye chefs pop up at Atlantic No. 5 for a special dinner

Apparently even when you cook a menu that varies daily with available fresh ingredients as Tyler Morris and his staff at Rye do, you get a little antsy.  So, why not try a pop-up...

What?!? Is it time to start thinking Thunder already? Bristol Bar And Grille...

Well, the Derby season kickoff, Thunder over Louisville is only about 6 weeks away.  And the J'ville Bristol has one of the best viewing spots for that noisy spectacle.  So now is the time...