Over at Louisville Business First, ace reporter Michael L. Jones dropped one and a half big stories yesterday.
Leading things off, there’ll be new life for a prominent structure in Germantown, with the ripple effects reaching into SoIN.
EXCLUSIVE: New restaurant, boutique planned for former Eidertown location in Germantown
A new boutique hotel and Taiwanese-American restaurant are coming to the former Eiderdown building in Germantown.
Developer Brian Goodwin, co-owner of Darling’s and the High Horse, and a group of partners purchased the three-story building at 983 Goss Ave. in early May for $850,000, according to Jefferson County Property Valuation Administrator records.
The 7,000-square-foot building was home to the German-American restaurant Eidertown for nearly a decade until it closed in June 2020. Redbud Dining Room, from the owners of Toasty’s and New Wave Burritos, occupied the building for just six months before it, too, closed in July 2023.
The aforementioned ripple works like this.
The ground floor restaurant will be operated be operated by Ming Pu, the culinary director of Brand Hospitality, who currently oversees the New American cuisine at Brooklyn and the Butcher, The Exchange Pub & Kitchen and OutCast Fish and Oyster Bar, all in New Albany, Indiana.
I live in New Albany, and these restaurants are right down the street from our house. Like I keep telling you, it’s one extended metro area with a river running through it.
In addition to the news ex-Eiderdown news, Jones has another Germantown tidbit.
The renovation of the former Eiderdown building is not the only high-profile project Goodwin is working on in the area. He also is renovating the former Come Back Inn location at 909 Swan St.
I’m exhausted already, so here’s a 2019 post from F & D with a bit more background about the chef and his cuisine.
Taiwan meets Kentucky with this Taiwanese Bourbon Dinner by Ming Pu
