Restaurant roundup: Beer, Beard Awards, Booker’s, benefit dinner and bye-bye...
Japanese pop-up dinner at Atlantic No. 5. The chefs at Rye and Atlantic No. 5 (605 West Main St.) are doing a pop-up Japanese comfort food dinner on Feb. 28 at 6:30 p.m. What’s a pop up? The tame...
View ArticleMore on Comfy Cow’s move to the Heine Bros.’ space at Bardstown and Eastern...
* Terry Boyd also contributed to this post. The only thing restaurateurs like as much as good food is good real estate, and Comfy Cow Ice Cream owners Tim and Roy Koons-McGee just landed one of the...
View ArticleProfile: Erika Chavez-Graziano’s passion for business trumps her love of...
Many view Swift Meat Packing Co. as an industrial eyesore, Butchertown’s biggest olfactory offense. But Erika Chavez-Graziano views the pork packing operation as essential to the life of her two...
View ArticleRestaurant Roundup: Bank Street downscales, TPD upscales, chef Schwartz to...
No sense in breaking the Bank: The partners behind Bank Street Brewhouse have scaled back its gastropub menu in an effort to control costs and better position the operation in the casual marketplace of...
View ArticleJohn Y. Brown Jr.: Colonel’s sale of KFC 50 years ago changed restaurant...
This month marks 50 years since John Y. Brown Jr. and Jack Massey bought Kentucky Fried Chicken from Col. Harland Sanders for $2 million ($15 million in 2014). The transaction changed the simplest of...
View ArticleDean Corbett, Shawn Ward among partnership revamping The Brewery, other...
Four restaurant veterans are teaming up to revamp The Brewery (426 Baxter Ave.) and potentially two other Louisville restaurants in 2014. Gathered under the name Louisville Eats Good LLC are Dean...
View ArticleWard remembers 18 years as Jack Fry’s chef, eyes future as restaurant owner
When Shawn Ward unknots his apron and packs his knives on March 27, he’ll end a remarkable 18-year run at Jack Fry’s that turned the modest restaurant into a nationally acclaimed Louisville standard....
View Article25 years of De La Torres to end April 11 with sale to Louvino
Maggie De La Torre isn’t crazy. She just can’t help being simultaneously happy and sad and giggly and gloomy over the pending sale of De La Torre’s. She and husband, Miguel, have run the restaurant,...
View ArticleOpening of The Place Downstairs sets standard for new Louisville restaurants...
You sense an undeniable air of exclusivity when going to The Place Downstairs. To get to the restaurant, which opened yesterday, you walk a bee line through a gauntlet of customers waiting for a table...
View ArticleOnerous overhead ends 18-month run for Susan Seiller’s Relish restaurant
Relish, Susan Seiller’s “healthier lifestyle,” fresh food restaurant (1346 River Road) closed following lunch service April 9. According to Seiller, high overhead and a concept that didn’t fit the...
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