“We offer five to six ounces of protein on a sandwich. These are not the little deli sandwiches you get at other places. These are meals. I just want to deliver high quality at the most reasonable price we can. That’s what dad always lectured us about.”
Kayrouz has been a familiar family name in Louisville culinary circles since at least the Roaring Twenties, when Christopher Kayrouz’s grandparents launched the first Kayrouz Café downtown. His parents then ran the J.P. Kayrouz Restaurant in St. Matthews from 1976 until 2003.
(There remains an ongoing iteration of Kayrouz Café at 3801 Willis Ave. in St. Matthews, which passed from Kayrouz family ownership in 2010.)
Writing at Louisville Business First, Michael L. Jones has the story of Christopher’s new Kayrouz venture, Kayrouz Delicatessen, which is located at 3202 Frankfort Ave. in premises most recently inhabited by Hooked on Frankfort.
Kayrouz Delicatessen opens in former Hooked on Frankfort location,
The Kayrouz Delicatessen offers sandwiches, soups, desserts and to-go items for lunch and dinner. Many of the ingredients are sourced from New York and New Jersey, but Kayrouz said the restaurant makes staples like corned beef, country ham and roast beef in-house.
Prices range from $12.50 to $24. The delicatessen serves beer and wine, and catering services are also available.
We are as yet unaware of a Kayrouz Delicatessen web site. There is an existing but long moribund JP Kayrouz page at Facebook that was updated recently (including our cover photo credit for today). It may or may not become the Fb portal for the new Kayrouz Delicatessen, which is open daily from 11:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
