Sunday, April 28, 2024

TropiCuba closes, ends a short run in Clifton

On Monday, June 22, Tropicuba, 2206 Frankfort Ave, posted this notice on their Facebook page: "TropiCuba will be temporarily closed as of today, June 22nd, until further notice." When I drove by on Saturday, June 27,...

Blaze Pizza offers free pizzas tomorrow

Blaze Fast Fire’d Pizza has opened it second Louisville location today, one of the several restaurants to open at Middle Commons, 13317 Shelbyville Rd. To mark the occasion, that store will be giving away...

Over the Nine to open for First Friday

The western end of the First Friday trolley hops will soon have a new focus for food and drink. Old 502 Winery and Falls City beer have collaborated to add Over the 9 restaurant...

Stout Burgers & Beer set to open Monday

Refitting the former La Bodega Tapas bar at 1604 Bardstown Rd. into a Stout Burgers & Beer has been a slow process, but the end is in sight, and the California-based upscale burger chain...

Lilly Cary makes doughnuts, and delivers

Perhaps if you grew up with a restaurant named after you, you would eventually have to get in the food business. Karma has worked on Lilly Cary, daughter of Kathy Cary and namesake of...

Gala Garlic cook-off tests mettle of local chefs

Everyone who has cooked any sort of ethnic dishes–French, Italian, Thai, Chinese, Basque, Filipino, Malaysian, Briti...well, probably not British–knows that garlic is an essential ingredient, a taste that blends in with and accentuates so...

Allan Rosenberg’s Fontleroys to open on Bardstown Rd.

The restaurant space at the corner of Bardstown Rd. and Grinstead Dr., that has been Uncle Maddio’s Pizza Joint–one of the first businesses to occupy the renovated corner that had sat empty for some...

A pair of Boils, a Farm Fresh menu and a Wine Dinner are on...

The end of June will see a few special dinners offered by area restaurants, with a pair of dinners bringing coastal seafood boils to us landlocked shrimp fans, a sampling of California wines and Bourbon...

Proof on Main, Feast BBQ and The Ville win notice and awards

Louisville chefs and restaurants have been getting some national press lately, nowhere near enough, in some people’s eyes, but every bit helps to let others know the good things that are happening here. Eater, the...

The Rud closes; an era ends

The Rudyard Kipling, the Old Louisville restaurant and entertainment venue at 422 W. Oak St. that has been a mainstay of the hipster scene for several decades, has announced that it is closing its...