Saturday, April 20, 2024

Sounds of summer: Live music, classy cocktails in two downtown spots

You like live music with your after-work drinks? Who doesn’t right? Well, as long as it’s good anyway (which starts with ensuring the band won’t play yet another bad cover of Mustang Sally.) That offering is...

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...

502 Restaurant Week lasts a fortnight this year

Two dozen Louisville restaurants will offer dinner specials between Wednesday, Feb. 22 and Wednesday, March 8, a promotion organized by 502 Events LLC,.  Participating restaurants create a special 3-course dinner menu for the 15-day...

Red Herring adds coffee lounge

Red Herring Cocktail Lounge & Kitchen, 1757 Frankfort Ave., has added the Red Herring Coffee Lounge & Roastery, which is, essentially that same space, but open from 7 a.m. to 4 p.m. During this...

Traditional Mexican breakfasts come to Crescent Hill

The rise of breakfast-centric restaurants is an interesting and worthy addition to the dining scene locally. This trend gets a new actor by mid-march with Con Huevos opening in the tiny storefront formerly occupied...

Get your steins ready for Varanese’s Oktoberfest Beer Dinner, Oct. 24

Remember when German beers were all the rage here? Happened in the early ‘80s when we were getting over our love of Canadians (Moosehead, Molson, etc.) that was based on “Just something other than...

Get ready for ‘cue and blues at Smokin’ On the River Festival this weekend

For whatever inexplicable reason, Louisville has no excess of barbecue joints—even bad ones. There are a handful of dandies, but a mere handful seems unacceptable for a restaurant community so advanced on one hand...

More So-Cal and Mex grub: El Camino adds lunch, El Taco Luchador opening soon

Oh, what fun it is to dine in Louisville! Now “doing lunch” at El Camino: If you haven’t had the chance to dine at El Camino or just couldn’t justify the dinnertime waits of one...

Harvest Restaurant hosting Father’s Day family supper June 16

Not many dads are farmers tending their fields any longer, but they do play a hand in raising the most important crop of all: their families. Harvest wants to celebrate those men who work tirelessly...

Restaurant tid-bits, October edition

I. Mesh restaurant opening date postponed Mesh, the fine-dining concept being developed by Indianapolis-based Cunningham Restaurant Group, at 3612 Brownsboro Rd., has had its opening date postposed until February, 2015. The former site of Azalea...