Bank Street Brewhouse finds its food stride
When Bank Street Brewhouse opened in 2009 as part of New Albanian Brewing Company, it featured a French-inspired menu to go with its diverse craft beer offerings. Food service at the downtown New Albany brewery was discontinued in 2014 and replaced by various pop-up...
Royals Hot Chicken would do Nashville proud
The Nashville-style hot chicken wars have been declared in Louisville; Joella’s came first back in 2015, and now the latest contender, Royals Hot Chicken, is open for business on East Market Street and feeding hungry faces. Heck, even KFC has tried to get in...
Details about chef Ryan Rogers’ hot chicken restaurant revealed
The hot chicken hounds at Nashville Eater have sniffed out new details about Louisville chef Ryan Rogers’ latest restaurant in NuLu. Insider Louisville reported in July that the Feast BBQ owner planned to open a hot chicken restaurant in the former Taco Punk space...
Monday Business Briefing: Major marketing move for the CVB, Internet access in public housing, big development updates, and more
Welcome to the July 20 Monday Business Briefing, your private business intelligence digest from Insider Louisville. The Louisville Convention and Visitors Bureau has signed an exclusive three-year deal with ad and marketing firm Bandy Carroll Hellige, making it the CVB’s agency of record and signaling a new emphasis...
NuLu’s Empire Theater Building — former home of Taco Punk — has new owners
Good news, NuLu. The Empire Theater Building on East Market Street, home to a penny theater in the early 1900s and, much later, the restaurant Taco Punk, has sold to a pair of investors looking to revive the unoccupied space. Scott Howe, an up-and-coming commercial...
A Year in Review: Louisville restaurants — you win some, you lose some
This was quite a year of give and take in the restaurant biz. We lost some favorites like De La Torre’s and La Coop, but gained promising establishments like Roux, 8UP and Louvino. Insider Louisville wanted to highlight some of our favorite new spots as well as...
Taco Punk lands itself a new part-time home at Bank Street Brewhouse
Taco Punk closed its doors in NuLu for good a couple of months back, but it hasn’t gone away, doing regular pop-up appearances at NuLu Fest and at Bank Street Brewhouse in New Albany. Well, it turns out the Bank Street arrangement will be permanent...
The Closing Bell: Some interesting potential tenants consider former Taco Punk space
We created The Closing Bell after we figured out staffers, contributors and insiders were sitting on too much news that couldn’t wait for the Monday Business Briefing. Since then, TCB has become one of our best-read features, because the tips never stop rolling in around here....
Everything must go at the former Taco Punk on East Market
It’s hard to see someone’s dream go under, but it must be even harder for that person when the process of ending the dream is prolonged. This is the situation in which the former owners of Taco Punk on East Market now find themselves....
Taco Punk chef/owner Gabe Sowder announces closing, cites traffic snarls related to bridge construction
Taco Punk is closing … again. This time, it sounds like it’s for real. Gabe Sowder and his crew, who’ve been with him through thick and thin during three years, have posted the restaurant will close Friday, Oct. 3. In a note on the...
Taco PunkAugust 22, 2019
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