Parlour’s pizzas hold up all the way home Wednesday, Sep 23 2020 

$$ Modest ($20-$40) and Frankfort Ave., Clifton, Crescent Hill and Italian (and Pizza) and LEO's Eats and Parlour on Frankfort Robin Garr 8:44 am

I’ve been doing my small part to keep local restaurants alive during the pandemic by giving them my takeout business, but there’s a problem with that: I really hate eating lunch on my lap in the car. I want to take the food home, dammit! I want to plate it nicely and enjoy it in a … Continue reading Parlour’s pizzas hold up all the way home →

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Queen of Sheba offers an Ethiopian feast Wednesday, Sep 16 2020 

$$ Modest ($20-$40) and African and Baxter, Bardstown, Highlands and Ethiopian and LEO's Eats and Queen of Sheba Robin Garr 7:33 am

If you like to eat Ethiopian food the traditional way, you’ll eat with your hands, tearing off pieces of tangy, tan injera flatbread and using it to grab morsels from the common plate while your friends are doing the same. Unfortunately, the pandemic has put an end to that practice at Queen of Sheba restaurant … Continue reading Queen of Sheba offers an Ethiopian feast →

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Morels smokes serious ‘que … without meat Wednesday, Sep 9 2020 

$$ Modest ($20-$40) and Baxter, Bardstown, Highlands and BBQ, Burgers, Steaks & Down-Home and Commentary and LEO's Eats and Morels Vegan BBQ Smokehouse and Vegetarian/Vegan Robin Garr 8:33 am

Following on his success with vegan takes on popular fast-food dishes like the Farby, an Arby’s knockoff made without a molecule of meat, Morels Cafe’s proprietor Stanley Chase has now turned his attention to a seemingly even more impossible task. Behold, Morels Vegan BBQ Smokehouse, where Chase is creating vegetarian barbecued pulled “pork” and meat-free … Continue reading Morels smokes serious ‘que … without meat →

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Tiny Thai Cafe ranks as a favorite Wednesday, Sep 2 2020 

$$ Modest ($20-$40) and LEO's Eats and Northeast Metro and Pacific Rim & Other Asian and Thai Cafe Robin Garr 8:43 am

Since the pandemic started, I’ve been focusing on how we can enjoy local eateries and support the restaurant business while still assuring ourselves maximum protection against the pandemic. That approach consistently leads me to places that make it easy to order and pay online and pick up my food via no-touch curbside delivery. But it … Continue reading Tiny Thai Cafe ranks as a favorite →

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What pandemic? El Mundo Highlands is up and running Wednesday, Aug 26 2020 

$$ Modest ($20-$40) and Baxter, Bardstown, Highlands and El Mundo Highlands and LEO's Eats and Mexican, Cuban, Caribbean Robin Garr 8:30 am

It takes a certain bold spirit and lack of risk aversion to open a new restaurant during a pandemic when, at best, restaurants face an extraordinary burden of regulation for our health and safety. That didn’t slow down the folks at El Mundo, though. Not only did they open their second restaurant – El Mundo … Continue reading What pandemic? El Mundo Highlands is up and running →

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Get your sushi on the go from ToGo Sushi Wednesday, Aug 12 2020 

$$ Modest ($20-$40) and LEO's Eats and Pacific Rim & Other Asian and Seafood & Water's Edge and St. Matthews, Westport Village, and environs and ToGo Sushi Robin Garr 7:58 am

One of the great pleasures of sushi for me is the opportunity to sit down at the sushi bar, admire the artfully arranged rows of beautifully cut seafood and fish, and talk with the chef about what’s interesting and good. But I have to be honest: During the pandemic, the idea of joining a few … Continue reading Get your sushi on the go from ToGo Sushi →

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Let’s take Oskar’s out for a picnic! Wednesday, Aug 5 2020 

$ Budget (under $20) and $$ Modest ($20-$40) and BBQ, Burgers, Steaks & Down-Home and Camp Taylor/Zoo and Ethnic & Eclectic and Oskar's Slider Bar Robin Garr 8:45 am

I’ve been doing a lot of takeout dining in the past couple of months, and I’m content with that. But I have one big problem with takeout: Unless I choose from a handful of restaurants within a five-minute drive from my house, my takeout dinner is likely to be lukewarm or worse by the time … Continue reading Let’s take Oskar’s out for a picnic! →

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BurgerIM fights off challenges to bring the burgers Wednesday, Jul 29 2020 

$$ Modest ($20-$40) and BBQ, Burgers, Steaks & Down-Home and BurgerIM and St. Matthews, Westport Village, and environs Robin Garr 8:38 am

If you’ve been wondering about the odd name of that new gourmet-style hamburger joint in the Vogue Center, wonder no longer: The Hebrew plural ending “-im” on the English word “Burger,” yields “BurgerIM,” a crafty way to make a common word a trademark. We brought home a bunch of burgerim, er, burgers, the other day … Continue reading BurgerIM fights off challenges to bring the burgers →

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Funmi’s delights with the flavors of Nigeria Wednesday, Jul 22 2020 

$$ Modest ($20-$40) and African and Baxter, Bardstown, Highlands and Black-owned and Commentary and Ethnic & Eclectic and Funmi's Café Robin Garr 7:52 am

Here’s something important to keep in mind about supporting Black-owned restaurants and other Black-owned businesses: We can’t do it just once. To make this right, we need to get into the habit of dining and shopping regularly at businesses owned by our Black, indigenous, and other brothers and sisters of color. According to U.S. Census … Continue reading Funmi’s delights with the flavors of Nigeria →

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Taj Palace makes it easy to pick up delicious Indian food Wednesday, Jul 15 2020 

$$ Modest ($20-$40) and Indian and Northeast Metro and Taj Palace Robin Garr 9:40 am

There’s no way to put this but bluntly: I don’t think some Louisville restaurants are is taking the Covid-19 pandemic as seriously as they should. Why the worry? You probably saw the news item about eleven Louisville businesses that got inspection blasts from Metro Public Health and Wellness over the Fourth of July weekend for … Continue reading Taj Palace makes it easy to pick up delicious Indian food →

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