MAGAZINE ARTICLES

“The Saing Family’s Pad Thai Story”: F&D’s profile of Simply Thai

In our current Fall 2025 print edition, Roger profles Simply Thai, with delicious photography by Dan Dry. PROFILE | The Saing Family’s Pad Thai Story: The Saing family founded the St. Matthews location of Simply Thai in 2006, and a second branch in fast-growing Middletown in 2012. While Thailand’s cuisine reflects the country’s positioning as […]

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“World-Class Paella: Made with a Surgeon’s Touch”

In our current print edition, Michael L. Jones drops in for paella night at Caffe Classico, with photos by Dan Dry. WORLD-CLASS PAELLA | Made with a Surgeon’s Touch: On monthly paella nights at the decidedly Old World bastion Caffe Classico in Clifton, you’ll find Gustavo Pérez-Abadía, a skilled orthopedic surgeon and educator, tending to […]

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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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“The Original Pour”: F&D’s profile of Bourbons Bistro at 20

As we celebrate Bourbons Bistro’s 20th anniversary in 2025, who remembers the establishment’s audacious foundational broadside, which appeared on t-shirts almost a decade prior to former mayor Greg Fischer’s invention of the term “bourbonism” as Louisville’s civic mantra? Bringing bourbon back one sip at a time. And so the comeback has proceeded, two decades hence. Bourbons […]

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“From the Levant with Love”: F&D’s profile of MeeshMeesh Mediterranean

In F & D’s current print edition, Cary Stemle profiles MeeshMeesh Mediterranean and its rising young chef, Noam Bilitzer, with photos by Dan Dry. PROFILE | MeeshMeesh MeeshMeesh Mediterranean (the name derives from the Hebrew word for apricot) opened in September 2023 to immediate acclaim and a reservation list booked two months out ― even […]

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Letters from Lelia’s Kitchen: Greens on the grill

In F & D’s current print edition, our kitchen guide Lelia Gentle discusses the art of grilling, noting that grilled greens and vegetables have become favorites of hers — and it’s peak season at the farmers market. The old admonition applies: just don’t overcook. LETTERS FROM LELIA’S KITCHEN | Greens on the grill Yes, yes, […]

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The Cocktail Contessa: Cocktails from the garden, sipping on summer’s bounty

In our current print edition, Heather “The Cocktail Contessa” Wibbels takes a walk through the garden in search of inspired summer sips, including recipes for Berry Mint Tea, Lavender Lemon Smash, Peach Basil Gin Sour, Garden Sparkle and School’s Out Margarita. COCKTAIL CONTESSA | Sipping on summer’s bounty  Fresh herbs and flowers can infuse your […]

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The Bar Belle: Globetrotting and bar hopping in 2025

In our current print edition, Sara “The Bar Belle” Havens recounts her travels so far in 2025, which have included London, Scotland, Mexico and Baltimore, MD, home of The Horse You Came In On Saloon in Fell’s Point, reputedly Edgar Allan Poe’s last stop before oblivion (cover photo). BAR BELLE | Globetrotting and bar hopping […]

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

The Summer 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 | MeeshMeesh: Well before a prestigious James Beard Award nomination raised Chef […]

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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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Jared Matthews & the 3 Lou Lous, a hot combo profiled in our Spring 2025 edition

We’re just weeks away from Food and Dining Magazine’s Summer edition, but for the moment let’s look back to Spring 2025, and Cary Stemle’s comprehensive feature about Jared Matthews and the Three Lou Lous—not a soul/R&B band, but a trio of restaurants. Jared Matthews isn’t one to sit still. He has expanded his growing Lou […]

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Sara’s barrel pick experience at Angel’s Envy (in our Spring 2025 print edition)

As we await the arrival of the Summer 2025 edition of Food & Dining Magazine, which is coming in early June (the fevered hum of production is audible, briefly interrupted by the inevitable Kentucky Derby hangover), a fundamental truth about life in Kentucky taps us gently on our shoulders. It’s a bourbon reminder, of course, […]

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Perso’s Emil David, profiled in our Spring 2025 print edition

While it may be true that Perso’s owner and chef Emil David was born to cook, his natural abilities have been accompanied by a lifelong clear-headedness about the level of effort and adaptability required to make good on one’s potential. This is a man displaying persistent curiosity and a dogged work ethic, forever ready to […]

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Letters from Lelia’s Kitchen: “Cooking with Eggs” (and shakshuka lessons)

In our current print edition, Lelia Gentle recounts a shakshuka lesson offered by a helpful North African cab driver in New York City: “You must roast the peppers and tomatoes yourself. Don’t used the canned ones!” She offers two additional egg recipes: okonomiyaki (a Japanese cabbage pancake, similar to a frittata) and shirred eggs, a […]

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The Bar Belle on Louisville nightlife: Same as it ever was? Not really

In our current print edition, Sara “The Bar Belle” Havens offers her Louisville nightlife highlights of yesteryear. Whatever happened to cheap beer, Connections and local pub crawls? Learn about the way things used to be, and not so long ago. BAR BELLE | Same as it ever was? Not really Sometimes people will ask me […]

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