In F&D’s Summer 2024 print edition, Kevin Gibson (with photos by Dan Dry) visits Vernon Lanes in Butchertown, which has reemerged as a local showplace, and the nation’s oldest bowling facility, following a period of closure (2015 – 2021) when the classic building patiently awaited an enlightened ownership group — which it now has.
From burgers and hand cut fries to flatbreads and plenty of appetizers, you won’t have to bowl on an empty stomach, although it’s a far cry from what you’d have experienced when the bowling alley first opened in 1902, or even when I was a kid during the late 1970s while frequenting Eastern Lanes in Clarksville.
The crinkle-cut fries there were the biggest hit for me and my friends; at today’s Vernon Lanes, they’re hand-cut fries – and some of the best you’ll find in Louisville. Jarrett said the kitchen goes through 400 pounds of fries every week.
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OFF THE EATEN PATH | Vernon Lanes: This historic gathering place gets new life with a superb, reinvented menu, and a unique, communitarian vibe.
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