Monday, April 29, 2024

Dine Around for APRON to benefit service workers

Restaurant industry workers–chefs and line cooks, servers, bar tenders, dishwashers and other back-of-the-house essential workers–are notoriously less protected by worker benefits such as sick leave and health insurance. When financial hardships caused by illness...

Taste of Derby celebrates 30th year

Tuesday, April 25 at 5:30 p.m., Dare to Care will host the 30th iteration of its popular fundraiser, the Taste of Derby Festival. Over 40 restaurants and 20 local distilleries and beverage companies will...

World Cafe potentially bringing restaurant to Whiskey Row

City goverment insiders are talking with a great deal of enthusiasm about a successful music/dining concept coming here from Philadelphia. We heard chatter about this concept more than a year ago as they looked at buildings...

After Thurby, head to Copper & Kings for Sunset Party

Thursday, May 5, 6-9 p.m., Yelp will throw a “RSVP” only after-Thurby Sunset Part on Copper & Kings Brandy Distillery’s third floor Skydeck, 1121 E. Washington St. The thematic drink will be C&K’s Ride...

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...

Hot Box Eatery newest downtown lunch spot

Downtown certainly has a strong selection of places for office workers to eat lunch, but a new one, Hot Box Eatery, will open soon at 438 W. Market St., at the corner of Fifth. The...

Mixology and Cocktails at Bourbon Barrel Foods

Thursday June 26,7 p.m., Bistro 1860 barkeep Stephen Dennison will demonstrate how to craft interesting cocktails at a cocktail party hosted by Bourbon Barrel Foods at their Kitchen Studio in Butchertown Market, Story Ave. Bourbon...

Passover pastry secrets at 610 Magnolia

Baking for Passover is among the trickier cooking tasks a dedicated baker can confront.  Wheat flour is verboten, no corn product sweeteners either. But baking tempting desserts for Passover can be done, as Paula Shoyer...

Master Distiller Parker Beam dies

Heaven Hill distillery has announced in a press release that long-time Master Distiller Emeritus, Parker Beam, died yesterday “after a long and valiant battle with Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis, or ALS.”  Parker Beam had been with...

Sushi Night Pop-up at SuperChefs

The first Urban Eclectic Sushi and Cocktails will occur tonight, Monday, June 26 at SuperChefs, 1702 Bardstown Rd., presented by Le Marie Chateau, Inc., with sushi created by Chef Maria Pinkney, "The Sushi Lady.” ...