Sunday, May 5, 2024

Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail lands on National Geographic’s 10 Best Spring Trips for 2013.

So National Geographic has named the Kentucky Bourbon Trail Tour a "Best Spring Trip" for 2013. Well, we’ll be darned—and darned proud. Seems the yellow-bordered magazine of our youths, the one packed with photographs of...

Kaelin’s is back … but as a coffeehouse.

It’s been a few years since Kaelin’s Restaurant, the self-proclaimed genesis of the cheeseburger, closed and opened anew as Mulligan’s Pub. Now the name is back, only slapped onto a new coffeehouse-café sharing the...

Mayan Café goes soft-drink free, dumps sugary sodas

If you want a carbonated soft drink with your dinner, don’t expect to get one at Mayan Café. Why not? Because co-owners Bruce Ucan and Anne Shadle are as serious about serving fresh drink as much...

Loui Loui’s delivering Detroit-style pizza here in April.

The long-empty site of Ferd Grisanti’s is getting a new tenant this spring — Loui Loui’s Authentic Detroit-Style Pizza. If you’re wondering what that is, it’s a pan style pizza using a thick, but lights...

Buckhead hosting dinner featuring local beers and foods March 18.

Kudos to Tisha Michelle Gainey for the hard work she and the brew-focused crews at Buckhead Mountain Grill (Bardstown Road and Jeffersonville, Ind.) and Rocky’s Sub Pub put into elevating the status and availability...

Good Restaurant Reads

If you liked ‘Kitchen Confidential,’ try these: Anthony Bourdain is credited with creating the subcategory of “restaurant books” with his industry tell-all, “Kitchen Confidential,” though some other dandies came before it. Regardless, it is a compelling...

Zagat Guide picks Sunergos as Louisville’s best stop for coffee

We bet that headline means “fightin’ words” to some who take their coffee and coffee houses personally. The morning brew is not only a prized pick-me-up, people attach feelings to the coffee house experience—even when...

Wiltshire to add another foodie Mecca.

From the team that brought you Wiltshire Pantry (one of the top rated catering companies in the state) and Wiltshire on Market (a solid favorite in NuLu’s hot restaurant row) is on the verge...

Avalon property sells for $1.8 million, new owners to create El Camino.

It’s official: The restaurant property known for a decade as Avalon has been sold by longtime restaurateur Steve Clements, for $1.8 million, to lawyers and restaurant developers Shawn and Vanessa Cantley. If the Cantleys’ names sound familiar,...

“Down One Bourbon Bar” opens today.

A new downtown bar and grille featuring more than 100 Bourbons, specialty cocktails, and locally produced craft beers officially opened today. The address of the new spot is 321 W. Main St., in the Waterfront...