Tired of Lenten Fish Fries? Try St. James’ Pasta Fridays
Back in the Middle Ages, Christians were prohibited from eating any meat at all during Lent.
Fish was permitted, regarded, somehow, as equivalent to fasting (go figure). Thus the now quaint and largely disregarded modern...
Upcoming wine dinners offer great way to explore menus and wines
We have long held that the special wine dinners various restaurants offer are among the best entertainment values in town.
Chefs try out dishes not on their regular menus that pair best with the range...
It must be spring: restaurants are popping up all over. Here’s the...
After the long, hard winter, new life is beginning to blossom. News of new restaurants is coming in fast.
More pizza choices will arrive with Blaze Fast-Fire'd Pizza, a build-your-own artisanal pizza chain, expected to...
Fast-food choices to expand with opening of Noodles & Company
The 16-outlet Indianapolis-based chain will expand substantially, if plans and hopes materialize. The first outlets will likely be in Middletown, and near U of L, but no definite sites have been announced yet, according...
Mesh moves forward with naming of Anoosh Shariat as chef
It’s still just a bare razed patch on Brownsboro Rd. near Chenoweth, but the plans are that by fall of 2014, the spot that once housed Bauer’s Restaurant, then La Paloma, and then Azalea,...
Five Whiskies Worth Stealing
The mystery of what happened to all that Pappy Van Winkle whiskey–95 bottles of 20-year-old Pappy Van Winkle, and nine bottles of 13-year-old rye reserve–, stolen from Buffalo Trace Distillery in Frankfort last October remains...
Are you ready to try barley wine?
Lexington Brewing and Distilling Co., Maker of Kentucky Bourbon Barrel ale, stout and pumpkin ale, is set to release a new seasonal brew, . Since it is made from grain, and not fruit, barley...
de la Torres sold; Louvino wine bar to take over space
The 25-year run of Miguel and Maggie de la Torres will end April 11, when they will turn over the keys to their eponymous Spanish restaurant (and adjoining tapas bar, La Bodega) to the...
It’s starting to look a lot like Derby
Perhaps the cold weather will have retarded the blossoming of the dogwoods enough so that that mystical concurrence, Derby and dogwoods in bloom, might actually happen this year.
As we wait to see, Derby Festival...
Gaze into your crystal (basket)ball and win pizzas for a year
We all know Friday will be crazy throughout the state. UK and U of L go head to head in the NCAA basketball tournament; the winner advancing to the Elite 8. To celebrate the...
