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The “blue” note: Against the Grain will leave Slugger Field at year’s end

There will be time later to sort through the details, which likely will take the form of a future “Hip Hops” column. For the moment, your bullet points: Against the Grain’s Brewery & Public House at Louisville Slugger Field will cease following a final day on Tuesday, December 23. AtG’s production facility will continue operations, […]

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The Silver Dollar will depart after a final day on Nov. 15

By now, you’ve probably heard the news. The text reads: Dear Friends, We want to sincerely thank you for your support, friendship, and countless good memories shared with us. We’ll be closed this week and will reopen one last time on Saturday, November 15th, for our final day of service. It’s been an honor to […]

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Hip Hops: Porter — and remembering the Edmund Fitzgerald, 50 years on

 As of Monday, November 10, it has been fifty years since the SS Edmund Fitzgerald sank  during a sudden, violent storm on Lake Superior, claiming the lives of all 29 crew members. Far too often we’re amnesiacs when it comes to history, but the men who were lost that terrible night in 1975 are […]

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Chef in a Box (Nov. 19, 20): Gustavo’s Mexican Grill in Prospect, featuring owner Gustavo Reyes

Gustavo’s Mexican Grill (Prospect) is next for APRON Inc.’s Chef in a Box promotion, but first the bigger picture.  Food & Dining Magazine continues to preview the forthcoming Chef in a Box offering. It’s a tasty fundraising project dating to the summer of 2020, benefiting APRON Inc.’s ongoing grant program. The Chef in a Box promotion […]

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Mashup Food Hall opens TODAY in PhoenixLu

Mashup Food Hall comprises the ground floor of a new mixed use development squarely within the Phoenix Hill neighborhood (750 East Jefferson St.), but apparently NuLu sells tickets, so we’ve created the PhoenixLu mashup. The food hall’s web site explains. The Facebook page is here. Mashup Food Hall is Louisville’s new community hangout in NuLu, […]

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Gizzards most fowl? Dirty Bird leaves, Papalinos returns, and Pizza AF goes mobile

Writing at Louisville Business First, Michael L. Jones rolls with the changes, diagramming the intricate playbook at the former Tim Tam Tavern in the Audubon neighborhood. The Dirty Bird could not surmount a difficult start, and it is no more (for now). Replacing fried chicken at 1022 Clarks Lane is retro pizza, with the revival […]

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Letters from Lelia’s Kitchen: “The Art of Mindful Cooking”

In our current Fall 2025 print edition, Lelia Gentle considers the benefits of mindful cooking, which can be considered a form of meditation. As an example there is mise en place, a French culinary term that means “putting everything in place,” and taking the time to prepare and organize what will be needed before breaking the […]

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Louisville Pizza Week’s version 8.0 starts on Monday, November 10

(Our cover photo depicts Hop Atomica’s 10″ Verde Carne Asada: a verde sauce base, citrus marinated skirt steak, queso fresco, white onion and cilantro) It’s almost that time again. But wasn’t it only yesterday? Either way, Louisville Pizza Week is right around the corner, although on second thought, I may be thinking about Taco Week […]

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The Bar Belle: “Long Live Dive Bars and Ice-Cold Beer”

In our current Fall 2025 print edition, Sara “The Bar Belle” Havens gets back to basics. THE BAR BELLE | Long Live Dive Bars and Ice-Cold Beer: Fearing for the lives of Louisville’s cherished dive bars, The Bar Belle has compiled a short list of the dives that remain, along with the places where we […]

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St. Benedict’s Bakery, a.k.a. Isaac Fox

St. Benedict (born circa 480 AD) is thought of as the “father of Western monasticism,” and St. Benedict’s Bakery is the answer to question several readers have asked: “What ever happened to Isaac Fox since the demise of The Champagnery and La Chasse earlier this year?” The text of the embedded post is below, and […]

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If refrigerators ran like WordPress, all our food would spoil

Having endured another day of tech platform hijinks, which seem to operate on the principle of a roulette wheel spinning merrily in a minefield, inspiring me to use every last obscenity taught me by a father who served in the Marines during WWII, and to head out to the garage in a desperate search for […]

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DiFabio’s Casapela Italian Restaurant will close at year’s end

All the way back in 2012, Robin Garr answered my lingering question about DiFabio’s Casapela Italian Restaurant (Facebook), which opened in 2010 at 2311 Frankfort Ave. in Clifton. “Casapela.” Utter this word slowly, with Mediterranean rhythm, assonant and mellifluous, “Cah-sa-PEH-laaaah,” and it sounds as Italian as Tony Bennett crooning “Arrivederci, Roma.” But plug it into Google Translate […]

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“Off the Eaten Path” at The Service Station Restaurant in Old Louisville

In our current Fall 2025 print edition, Marty Rosen profiles Kendell Sheppard’s The Service Station Restaurant (208 E. Burnett Ave. in Old Louisville), with delicious photography by Dan Dry. OFF THE EATEN PATH │ Fine Dining Roots, Comfort Food Soul: The Service Station offers an astonighing menu coming from a compact corner kitchen helmed by […]

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Meesh Meesh + North of Bourbon = Mill Iron 4, where Ensō used to be

Writing at the Courier Journal, Amanda Hancock provides the overview of a culinary union, coming in 2026 to 1758 Frankfort Ave. in Clifton. New restaurant to open in former Ensō space in Louisville The owners behind North of Bourbon and MeeshMeesh announced Wednesday they are teaming up to open a restaurant called Mill Iron 4 at 1758 Frankfort Ave. It’s […]

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Bamboo Coffee & Donuts is coming to Douglass Loop in 2026

In early 2026, Bamboo Coffee & Donuts is expanding its perimeter to the Belknap neighborhood, or as it is often regarded in colloquial terms, the Highlands. Reporting at Louisville Business First, Michael L. Jones considers the implications. Bamboo Coffee & Donuts expands to Highlands Bamboo Coffee & Donuts will open at 1938 Harvard Drive, in […]

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