“The Original Pour”: F&D’s profile of Bourbons Bistro at 20

As we celebrate Bourbons Bistro’s 20th anniversary in 2025, who remembers the establishment’s audacious foundational broadside, which appeared on t-shirts almost a decade prior to former mayor Greg Fischer’s invention of the term “bourbonism” as Louisville’s civic mantra?
Bringing bourbon back one sip at a time.
And so the comeback has proceeded, two decades hence. Bourbons Bistro is profiled in F & D’s current print edition (we’re only days away from the Fall edition’s release), with photos by Dan Dry. That’s Dan at work in featured photo, with Bourbons Bistro founders/owners John Morrison and Jason Brauner.
PROFILE | Bourbons Bistro: Two decades after it spurred the movement that now defines Louisville dining and tourism, Bourbons Bistro barrels along at the top of its game.
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