This will make pork lovers squeal like pigs — and without the humiliation of a remote mountain mishap! Proof on Main is hosting its third-annual Hog and the Barrel dinner on Thursday, Dec. 8, a fulsome, fatty feast featuring arguably the best blend of well-cooked pig and well-crafted bourbon around these parts. The food: As […]
Questionable closures: Zeppelin Café this weekend, Third Avenue Café for ‘renovations’
It’s been a weird week for Louisville restaurants. On Tuesday my sister called to tell me she tried to lunch at Third Avenue Café, but learned before going there that it was closed. She called the restaurant to confirm and spoke with a man who told her the restaurant’s 12-year run was done. I called […]
To get national attention, Louisville culinary scene needs corporate support, festivals and more restaurants
When I hear locals say Louisville is worthy of being counted among the nation’s great food cities, I have to bite my tongue. I’ve learned the hard way that arguing that the city has a long way to go to being anywhere near comparable to New York, San Francisco, Los Angeles or Dallas, etc., gets […]
From manager to owner: Restaurant baron gives Davis a hand in buying Martini
(Author’s note: Yes, this is two stories in a row about Martini Italian Bistro, and I don’t normally do such things. But I just learned this chapter of the restaurant’s change of ownership last night–while actually at Martini–and thought it too good to pass up. Call it a warm and fuzzy for the holiday.) Jim […]
Martini Italian Bistro’s Gruver mixes up win in GQ national cocktail contest
Gary Gruver likes bartending contests, and they like him. For the second time since 2009, Gruver, who tends bar at Martini Italian Bistro (4021 Summit Plaza Drive), has notched a category victory in a nationwide cocktail contest sponsored by GQ magazine and Bombay Sapphire Gin. Two years ago, his Sapphire Rio (a combination of gin, […]
Govt. not working: Yum! Brands pitch to accept food stamps blindly refused by USDA
Health advocates are happy about this week’s USDA refusal to allow Yum! Brands restaurants to accept food stamps (technically known as the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program or SNAP) in four eastern U.S. states, and I agree with them. Nutritionally speaking, fast-food such as that sold by KFC, Pizza Hut and Taco Bell is not the […]
Recommended Bite: The Brown Hotel’s Hot Brown — yes, really, I’m serious
I don’t like the “Man vs. Food” show. I mean, really, in a country suffering from a swelling obesity problem, must we watch an already heavy Adam Richman stuff his gob with absurd portions of fatty, cheesy, salty and spicy food? Yes, when the reason is good enough. And that excuse arrived this past summer […]
What will KFC’s new marketing chief do that his predecessors haven’t?
KFC announced today that chief marketing officer Barry Westrum is done pimping the world’s largest chicken chain after just 10 months in the coop. According to the company, Westrum left “to pursue broader innovation opportunities,” which is the most convoluted phrase I’ve ever heard to describe someone getting his walking papers. I guess the innovative […]
Despite my love for indie eateries, a Gordon Biersch downtown is a good idea
I’m a huge fan of local restaurants and patronize them about 99 percent of the time I eat out. But as a pragmatic businessman, I’m not at all disappointed by the news — broken by Insider Louisville’s Terry Boyd — that Gordon Biersch will set up a brewery and restaurant in the Fourth Street Live […]
The discovery tale of the Colonel’s cookbook is finger-lickin’ questionable
Is it just me or does this story seem a bit questionable? In an Associated Press story on the Washington Post’s website, KFC claims that Amy Sherwood, Yum! Brands’ vice president of public relations, recently discovered a cookbook manuscript written by Colonel Harland Sanders — nearly 50 years ago — among stacks of old documents […]
