New Albany food and drink openings are so numerous they won’t fit this title
Speaking as a New Albanian of long standing (full disclosure: I work for Pints&union), I still find it weirdly disorienting to contrast the lively food, dining and drinking scene in New Albany today with the moribund situation as it existed when we purchased our home downtown in 2003. It’s a pleasing juxtaposition, and yet some mornings I awaken to the fear that it will somehow disappear. Eighteen years ago I was one of three co-owners of NABC’s Pizzeria & Public House, where we had started brewing beer in 2002 as the first new brewery in New Albany since 1935. Now, in 2021, there are six breweries operating in New Albany, as well as two distilleries and soon a winery (see below). This is staggering — in metaphorical terms, of course. Accordingly, New Albany has passed through several waves of start-ups, more than a few fall-downs, and can celebrate a good many established long-haulers....Read more