dive bars

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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Hot off the presses: The Fall 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine has hit the streets

The Fall 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Subscribe to our award-winning print publication and have it delivered to your door each issue. FEATURES PROFILE | The Saing Family’s Pad Thai Story: The Saing family founded the […]

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It is Hilltop Tavern’s last month before reinvention as Dive Bar on Frankfort

The text at Instagram: “Maybe we are all exactly where we are meant to be. Say goodbye to Hilltop, and Hello to Dive Bar on Frankfort! Just a few blocks down the road is our new home. Super excited.” Writing at the Courier Journal, Josh Wood has the story of Hilltop Tavern’s impending demise and […]

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Dive Bar on Frankfort will rise where The Hub was in Clifton

What is a “dive” bar? The term dates to times when such terminology actually meant something real and concrete, as opposed to the Cosplay Era we currently inhabit. At Beervana, Jeff Alworth offers a thought: Observations from a Dive Bar (today’s cover photo of Kay’s in Portland is borrowed from Jeff’s article). My professional need […]

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Edibles & Potables: Spare me the “speakeasy,” tearbender

(This essay originally was published here.) Allowing for the possible exception of Mick Jagger, we’re all destined to awaken one morning and find that we’ve pole-vaulted past the invisible line in the sand that delineates prevailing fashion. Whether or not we ever cared about “cool” in the past, from this point forward the choice is […]

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Hip Hops: Trellis Brewing’s decoction, Donum Dei’s chili cookoff, plus no-jive dives (and boozers)

The Winter 2024 (Vol. 84) issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. Subscribe to our award-winning print publication and have it delivered to your door each issue. Last fall I was delighted to be given the assignment of profiling Trellis Brewing Co. […]

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