OPENINGS & CLOSINGS

Renshoku Ramen’s last day is underway RIGHT NOW

Here is the text of Renshoku Ramen’s Fb post. The restaurant is located at 1161 S. 2nd St. in Old Louisville, and remember: today’s objective is to sell out the inventory, so bid them a fond farewell. It is with great sadness that I must announce that today will be the last day of service […]

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Dock Seafood’s new building is under construction just up the street in New Albany

Dock Seafood initially opened in 1977 in Clarksville, but the longtime location at 1125 State St. in New Albany seems to have made it synonymous with the Floyd County seat. “Future site of” signs went up a few months ago at 1707 State St., only a few blocks away nearer to Baptist Health Floyd Hospital. […]

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The prototypical Shawarma Shack is coming to St. Matthews in November

Shawarma Shack will open in November at the Shelbyville Road Plaza (4600 Shelbyville Road #634) in St. Matthews. It is projected as the first of three locations for a startup franchise brand with “a consistent theme.” WDRB-41 has more. St. Matthews to welcome Middle Eastern restaurant Shawarma Shack The restaurant will let customers build their […]

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Las Margaritas Mexican Cuisine has left its Highlands building

  The Courier Journal is reporting that the Baxter Ave. location of Las Margaritas Mexican Cuisine has gone the way of the Guadalupe Caracara. The future of Las Margaritas Mexican Cuisine in the Highlands might be on the rocks. The Kentucky-based Mexican restaurant chain appears to have closed its spot at 938 Baxter Ave., formerly a longtime […]

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Now the “bust” cycle: Boomtown Kitchen, Creamery vacate downtown New Albany

Although no formal announcement has been issued, I believe we can proceed under the assumption that Boomtown Kitchen and Boomtown Creamery, sister concepts in downtown New Albany, have concluded their runs. Today’s cover photo shows the Creamery space bereft of furnishings. Boomtown Kitchen began in 2019, and Boomtown’s Creamery followed in 2021, both at the retail […]

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David Danielson’s new brunch course: äta to be remade as The Hen House  

Chef and owner David Danielson has revealed that his äta Restaurant (Brownsboro Center, 4864 Brownsboro Rd. in Windy Hills) is to be rebranded as The Hen House Café & Provisions, and remade into a brunch restaurant with an updated menu and business hours. The final dinner service for äta will come on Saturday, October 25. […]

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Retirement has come, and Lonnie’s Best Taste of Chicago is gone

For the record, Lonnie’s Best Taste of Chicago (121 Saint Matthews Ave.) has concluded. The text: OCTOBER 18, 2025 To all our customers, the day has finally arrived and we are RETIRING! It has been a blessing working in this community over the years. We have laughed, joked, cut up, played and prayed with each […]

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Milano Italian Restaurant’s East End location will cease after Oct. 31

In 2021, F&D traced the Shelbyville lineage of Milano Italian Restaurant as it debuted a new Louisville location at 11300 Westport Rd. Milano Italian Restaurant’s third location is coming this spring to Westport Road Now the Courier Journal’s Amanda Hancock reports this location’s closure. Popular Italian restaurant to close in east Louisville, open new location […]

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The Grales campus grows as Grale Goods lands in Cherokee Triangle

  View this post on Instagram   A post shared by The Grales (@the_grales) A few days ago Amanda Hancock took to the pages of the Courier Journal to preview yesterday’s opening of Grale Goods (1004 Bardstown Rd.), the long-anticipated latest addition to The Grales campus: Holy Grale, Gralehaus and Bar Grale. New bakery and […]

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Boneless in St. Matthews: Dave’s Hot Chicken lands in Louisville

The first area location of the Dave’s Hot Chicken chain landed at 4125 Town Center Blvd. in Jeffersonville in November 2024. Hot chicken might well be a Nashville TN tradition, but this franchise concept derives from a street stand operated by four buddies in Hollywood, California. The menu is built around aggregations of chicken tenders […]

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“Louisville Pizza King” opens in Old Louisville, differing from that OTHER Pizza King

Reporting at Louisville Business First, Michael L. Jones finds a third “Louisville Pizza King” debuting at 416 W. Oak St. in Old Louisville (the two pre-existing locations are 3505 Taylor Blvd. and 300 W. Woodlawn Ave.) Louisville Pizza King is known for its wide-ranging menu, which includes pizzas, sandwiches, salads, quesadillas and some Greek dishes. […]

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Phalcha Coffee’s second location opens today (9/27) in St. Matthews

Nepal has coffee: Phalcha Coffee set up shop at 1001 Mary St. in Germantown in early 2024, with iced coffee flights, artful coffee creations, ube, waffles and ice cream. The owners are Nepali, and the startup has been such a success that another iteration is opening today in St. Matthews at 3900 Shelbyville Rd., adjacent […]

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Ramen House is back, baby (in Irish Hill)

Chef Jonathan Ham’s Ramen House was launched in 2018, moving to Mid City Mall a year later, and all the while packing them in for traditional ramen, rice bowls, steamed buns, handmade gyoza and killer tonkatsu. With Mid City Mall’s future doubtful, Ham began looking for new digs, and found it earlier in 2025 at […]

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New Freezeland, out of India and straight to Hurstbourne Parkway

For those readers interested in fast food chains/franchises that originated in other countries, but have made the transition to American climes, see this at Mashed: Fast Food Chains That Were Surprisingly Started In Other Countries. Meanwhile, New Freezeland may sound like the hypothetical title of Bruce Springsteen’s 50th anniversary tour for the album Born to […]

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Craft House Pizza is coming to Middletown Landing

Reporting at Louisville Business First, Michael L. Jones finds a Craft House Pizza franchisee’s second location in the works (ETA: Thanksgiving) at the Middletown Landing apartments on the east side of I-265, a stone’s throw from Middletown. Pizza Pair LLC, the franchisee, recently opened its first Craft House Pizza in Radcliff. This makes nine altogether, […]

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