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MeeshMeesh “concept kitchen” at Trellis Brewing is no more

It has been so busy lately that this announcement slipped past two weeks ago without me noticing. Maybe there’ll be something more to say at another time, but for now…thanks to the Courier Journal for the newspaper notice of record. — 🇹🇭 UPDATE FROM BUDS / KHAO BOYS AT TRELLIS ✌️ 𝑲𝒉𝒂𝒐 𝑩𝒐𝒚𝒔 𝒊𝒔 𝒉𝒂𝒏𝒈𝒊𝒏𝒈 […]

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Rollin’ on the River Craft Beer Festival, in Jeffersonville, Sat., June 7

One week from today will be the second annual edition of Rollin’ on the River Craft Beer Festival, which will take place on Saturday, June 7 from 3:00 p.m. to 7:00 p.m. (2:00 p.m. entry for VIP ticket holders) at the Howard Steamboat Museum at 1101 East Market St. in Jeffersonville, Indiana. The craft beer experts […]

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Hugh E. Bir Cafe’s 59th birthday is June 8 in New Albany

The SoIN tourism folks have this to say about Hugh E. Bir’s Cafe in New Albany, known locally as the “ORIGINAL 4th Street Live,” and located at 324 E. Market St. You’ll get a down-home, part-honky-tonk, probably-won’t-order-a-martini kind of vibe at Hugh E. Bir’s. The place is full of stories. If you’re lucky, you might even catch […]

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La Guanaquita 2 is serving in Smoketown

“Best Authentic El Salvadoran and Honduran Cuisine In Louisville.” As a brief aside, my work on a book about beer has sent me into the newspaper archives. It is fascinating to compare and contrast newspaper headlines of the sort designed to be seen from a tactile newsstand, with the purposefully dull teasers greeting us daily […]

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Hip Hops: Count me as a beer classicist, but not a beer classist

In a former polemical life, and at a different portal than this one, I authored an occasional column called Shane’s Excellent New Words. The basic premise: “Because for some of us, words mean more than money.” Specifically, the concept was aimed squarely at its namesake, a local consigliere who liked to joke in the fashion of […]

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To be or not to be: Black Jockey’s Lounge renovations still on pause

Turning back the pages to 2020: “A black + woman owned restaurant and lounge. We are where the community comes together over great food, lively music performances and cocktails.” Encore on 4th to be rebranded as The Black Jockey Lounge I’m not sure where those four and a half years went, but direct your attention […]

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A Memorial Day observance, 2025

“Without memory, there is no culture. Without memory, there would be no civilization, no society, no future.” — Elie Wiesel The following essay first appeared at Food & Dining Magazine in 2021. It strikes me as useful and appropriate to pause now and then and reflect on universals, of which this surely is one. Today […]

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Edibles & Potables: The Regimen Sanitatus Salernum (or, a medieval diet revisited)

 (Originally posted on May 3, 2020) The medieval period of European history — the Middle Ages, or the Dark Ages — encompassed 1,000 years between the fall of the Roman Empire and the arrival of the Renaissance, approximately 500 to 1500 A.D. The 15th century saw the beginning of the Age of Exploration, as […]

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“Off the Eaten Path”: Jeffersonville’s Town. A Neighborhood Pub is profiled

A personal testimonial from Roger (that’s me): These are wonderful people who make great food and cultivate an atmosphere more Cheers-like than most others who routinely claim the mantle. It boggles my mind that it’s been almost 25 years. I chose the cover photo from Town’s inventory at Facebook (from Christmas, 2023) because the group shot […]

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Alcohol licensing snafu fricassees Dirty Bird, for now

On Wednesday, May 21 the recently minted fowl specialist Dirty Bird (1022 Clarks Lane) announced that “today will be our last day of operations for the time being” in Louisville’s Audubon neighborhood, near far trendier Germantown. Team Dirty Bird’s post at Facebook places the blame squarely on Kentucky’s Department of Alcoholic Beverage Control. While The […]

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Starting today, Four Pegs has all the meats at 3rd Turn Oldham Gardens

Whenever I’m asked if I’m ready, I think of GFR. It’s a grizzled old man kind of thing, but it’s not yacht rock. As to the central point, as of today you can enjoy Four Pegs smoked meats at 3rd Turn Oldham Gardens, and be advised (lest you risk losing valuable sleep), the beer is […]

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Hip Hops: Blind taste tests dispense with purely visual beer (label) adulation

As a prelude to the following (originally published on Oct 19, 2022), kindly note that the columnist is returning to stand-up (beer ed, not comedy) at Harbor & Hops (3010 Gottbrath Parkway, Jeffersonville) on Monday, May 26. We’re hoping to hold this sort of event on a semi-regular basis. Thanks to Greg Brown for opportunity […]

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Texas de Brazil, a chain steakhouse, will open at Mall St. Matthews

Texas de Brazil, not to be confused with Texas Roadhouse, “That Little Ol’ Band from Texas” (ZZ Top) or Walker, Texas Ranger, was founded by Lebanese immigrant Salim Asrawi and has more than 50 locations nationwide. According to the website, “We are an authentic Brazilian steakhouse as bold as Texas. That’s why all of our […]

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APRON Inc.’s “Happy Hour Friend-Raiser” at Craft House Pizza Hurstbourne (Wed., May 28)

In 2025 APRON Inc. is staging happy hour “friend-raisers” at different locations on the last Wednesday of each month. The next Happy Hour Friend-Raiser takes place on Wednesday, May 28 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Craft House Pizza, 2813 North Hurstbourne Pkwy. The prospectus: Complimentary Green River Distillery and Jefferson’s Bourbon sampling experience […]

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Parlour New Albany to move across alley to where the Hitching Post used to be

In the beginning, the Parlour Pizza concept was absorbed into a group called Craft Culture Concepts, which has expanded Parlour and is franchising the pizzeria. Then CCC metaphorically hopped into bed with Falls City Brewing to open a branch of Parlour in place of FCB’s taproom at its brewery in Louisville. FCB is owned in […]

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