Dining Solo: No Fear, No Shame, Just Do It
Years ago, after I left the newly corporate Courier-Journal, I went to work for a national nonprofit based in New York City. It was...
Soon you’ll be knocking on Heaven’s Door in NuLu at The Last Refuge
There is exciting news to report about the immediate future of a dormant church at 601 E. Market in NuLu, but first, the answer...
Diary: Nature teaches beasts to know their friends
Title credit courtesy of Shakespeare (Coriolanus).
During The Edge’s and Bono’s recent Tiny Desk Concert at NPR, Bono introduced the U2 song “Stuck in a...
Con Huevos Announces Opening Date For Norton Commons Location
Con Huevos, a local breakfast and lunch chain that serves Mexican cuisine, will open its fifth location next Tuesday, March 28, at 10639 Meeting...
OhChae Korean Fusion Cuisine is now dishing at Mesa in New Albany
The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
Mesa, A Collaborative...
The return of U of L’s University Club, with a familiar face
At Louisville Business First, Michael L. Jones relates the forthcoming reopening of the 30-year-old University Club at the University of Louisville (200 E. Brandeis...
Pat’s Steak House — F&D’s restaurant profile
(from left) Manager Erin Gosney, Owner Patrick Francis, GM Michele Francis, Chef Danny Pound, Manager Walt Dries and GM Hank Wolf.
Pat’s Steak House | 2437...
40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-Two: A placid traditional Danish lunch in Copenhagen, 1989
Copenhagen, Denmark (1989).
Previously: 40 Years in Beer, Part Twenty-One: Those legendary working beers with the FDJ in the GDR.
There was a faint glow, and...
Green with entropy?
Regardless of who invented it, the first people to make green beer probably made it the same, slightly unintuitive way it’s made today: a...
Edibles & Potables: The Ulster Fry, and other aspects of Northern Irish cuisine
The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
St. Patrick’s Day...
Cured Restaurant & Salumeria, coming in June to NuLu
A salumeria is a food producer and retail store that produces salumi and other food products. Some only sell foods, while not producing on-site, and...
The Taste Bud: Kevin reminds us, “This St. Patrick’s Day, Please Don’t Drink Green...
The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
It surely has...
Damn straight Guinness is good for you
One of the beer world’s most famous advertising slogans is “Guinness is good for you,” which dates to the 1920s and is credited to...
Edibles And Cannabinoids: Navigating The Alphabet Soup For A Better Buzz
So many different edibles and new cannabinoids names If you think this is the old-school way of making run-of-the-mill edibles, this isn’t that. A...
Decade is coming to the former Butchertown Grocery space in May
The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
I’m a big...
Recommended: Meat Or No Meat, The Smokery Has You Covered
A vegan walked into a barbecue joint. What’s the punchline? Actually, there’s no punchline. I’m not a vegan myself. But I can see the...
Hip Hops: R.I.P. Gerhard Schoolman—and the annual passing nod to St. Paddy
The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
The unique and...
Louisville’s Hip Hop Sweet Shop Owner Makes Appearance On The Kelly Clarkson Show
LaFesa Johnson, owner of Hip Hop Sweet Shop, appeared on the Kelly Clarkson Show, Monday, March 13. Johnson appeared on the show as part...
Hip Hops: Louisville area brewery news; also “Three years later, an altered world”
The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online.
Louisville area brewery...