<div>Bourbon News & Notes: James B. Beam Distilling Company’s Kitchen Table eatery; releases from Woodford Reserve and Jeptha Creed</div>
BOURBON NEWS & NOTES – for 5 November, by Susan Reigler James B. Beam Distilling Company Announces New On-Site Restaurant James B. Beam Distilling Company has announced that QED Hospitality, which operates upscale restaurants and bars in the Pontchartrain Hotel in New Orleans and the hotel Thompson Nashville, will be operating a new restaurant being built at the distillery in Clermont. The Kitchen Table will offer indoor and outdoor dining, including on a covered porch with views of the distillery grounds. Both the food and bar menus will feature Kentucky-grown/produced ingredients. Among them will be dishes made with pulled pork, country ham, catfish, and pizza with Kentucky toppings. The restaurant’s name is derived from the Beam family kitchen table, which belonged to Jim Beam and has been handed down through generations. (If this is the round oak table in the Beam house kitchen on Third Street in Bardstown, I once had the pleasure...Read more