Saturday, April 20, 2024

We’ll drink to this: Louisville’s Distilled Spirits Epicenter featured on ‘Moonshiners’

Fans of the hit TV show, “Moonshiners,” may not know that characters Bill and Josh, the hard luck hill boys who had little success making their high-octane hooch last season, came to Louisville’s Distilled...

Norton Commons welcomes Commonwealth Tap wine, beer and bourbon bar

Commonwealth Tap (9411 Norton Commons Blvd.) is now open in Norton Commons, bringing an affordable but sorta-upscale wine, beer and bourbon bar to the growing East End neighborhood. Save for Bistro 1860, which uses the...

Great Flood Brewing sets Highlands taproom opening for early 2014

Like microbrews? Then you’re in luck. A new microbrewery, Great Flood Brewing, plans to open a taproom in the Highlands early next year. Taproom, not a brewpub, which means partners Matt Fuller, Vince Cain and...

Fernando Martinez — of Guaca Mole and Mussels & Burgers Bar — to add...

Fernando, Christina and Yaniel Martinez plan to open their third restaurant in less than three years in January 2014. The informal but higher-end restaurant will be dubbed The Place Downstairs, signifying its location in...

So very French! Brasserie Provence selling a taste of South France

Have you been yet to the new Brasserie Provence? If not, you’re missing out on some swell food. Guy Genoud’s and Stacy Duncan’s restaurant works to provide a slice of dining in South France  at 150...

New eats: Atlantic No. 5 opens downtown on Main

The partnership who gave us Rye on Market opened a new restaurant at 605 W. Main dubbed Atlantic No. 5, in late October. If you weren’t aware of it, count yourself among the many...

Courier-Journal Food Editor rejoins Food & Dining Magazine.

F&D is pleased to announce the return of Ron Mikulak to the position of Editor-in-Chief, a post he held ten years ago, in the earliest days of the magazine. Mikulak relinquished his job at F&D to...

Lilly’s hosting extravagant Pappy Van Winkle Bourbon dinner Nov. 13

Don’t sleep through this news, even though it contains the name, Rip Van Winkle … If you like Pappy Van Winkle and count yourself among the famously frustrated bourbon fans who never even get to...

Tipping in restaurants: Should it stay or should it go? What do you think?

Tipping in restaurants has been around longer than the Waldorf salad on most bad buffets. It's a standard to which we're all accustomed, but it's one under scrutiny of late now that operators are...

Shaken, not stirred: Moonshine University hosts Gin Enthusiast class Nov. 9

Finally, a gin class in the heart of Bourbon Country! No, it’s not sacrilege, it’s diversity that promotes knowledge in the mind, variety on the bar and great flavors in the glass. The Food & Dining...