Category Archives: Dining

So much for the Harlem Shuffle. The Louisville Chef Shuffle is underway in at least three restaurant kitchens. • Curry running Napa kitchen: Two weeks ago, Brian Curry, a long-time sous chef at Napa River Grill, was appointed executive chef there. Under direction from its new owner, Junior Bridgeman, he and sous chef Seth Butkus have [...]

You can head down to the river for some artery-clogging food and rehashed music this weekend. Or, you can get out and enjoy Louisville inside and out. If you’re visiting for opening weekend of Churchill Downs, welcome or welcome back. Local breakout band plays outdoors, country songwriting legend in town, the horses break-in the track [...]

A new restaurant called Derby City Roadhouse could open next week in this space formerly home to City Café on the Baxter Avenue side of Mid City mall, technically 1250 Bardstown Road. Owner-operator Chris Harris, who also owns and runs the Southern Table Bar & Grill in Shelbyville, Ky., originally envisioned a more upscale restaurant in [...]

European vacation without the Griswolds: Three of the four-man partnership behind Against the Grain brewery are traveling to Denmark this week for the Copenhagen Beer Celebration (CBC), May 3 and May 4. Only 30 breweries from around the world are chosen for this invitation-only event, a fact that makes ATG brewery manager, Sam Cruz, pretty [...]

If Louisville restaurateurs get their way, you soon could be drinking mimosas and bloody Marys as early as 10 a.m. on Sundays in their restaurants. For nearly two years, local operators and the Kentucky Restaurant Association have teamed up to convince local Louisville’s Metro Council that dumping the longstanding “no alcohol before 1 p.m. on [...]

This May, Louisville will host the second-annual James Beard Foundation‘s Chefs Boot Camp for Policy Change. That this is an honor for the local restaurant community isn’t obvious to many, but it’s not lost on chefs both here and elsewhere in the United States. The event will convene 15 nationally recognized chefs who fight the [...]

Think of this as retail crowdsourcing. Yang Kee Noodle operating partner Dan Huckstein, who opened in Oxmoor Center back in 2003, is thinking about finally expanding. Why Yang Kee Noodle has remained a one-store operation is a mystery even to food critic Robin Garr. Garr wrote last week in the Voice-Tribune newspaper, ”I can’t help wondering if [...]

It’s been almost a year since the Cincinnati-based Tom + Chee opened a Bardstown Road location, the first  of their stores outside of Queen City. I was lucky to attend the soft opening of the grilled cheese and tomato soup fast-ish food joint before my Insider Louisville days and was delighted by both the food [...]

Being the “can’t turn down a fun press event” types we are, we’ve gotten more opportunities than we deserve to see Thunder Over Louisville from multiple venues. Ironically, even though it’s technically a Louisville event, our votes for the best combination watching-drinking-eating sites are in Southern Indiana: Bristol Bar and Grille Jeffersonville and Buckhead Mountain [...]