Bristol Bar & Grille opening in Jeff on Friday: Southern Indiana will get its first Bristol Bar & Grille on Friday, when the Jeffersonville location (700 W. Riverside Drive) opens for business. Executive chef Richard Doering, a veteran of Louisville Marriott East and 211 Clover Lane, will oversee the kitchen, and Scott Harper will manage the restaurant.

Additionally, a Business First report said Bristol also is launching a podcast at its Web site to teach customers more about wines. In the wake of its popular price slashing effort (the restaurant lowered prices to market rates this year), Harper, who also is the chain’s wine director, has added the podcast to help familiarize diners with the myriad vino options available. Even if you don’t own an iPod, you can watch all Harper’s videos on your computer.

Chef Robert Irvine canned by Food Network: It appears “Dinner Impossible” chef Robert Irvine was more challenged to tell the truth about his resume than he was cooking some of his outrageous—and at least partially staged, I always claimed—meals in strange environs. When the Food Network discovered he’d lied about making the wedding cake for the prince and princess of Wales, being knighted and cooking for a series of U.S. presidents, it canned the cocky Brit and pulled the plug on new production of his goofy, “surreality” show last month. (Reruns will continue.) Though a real prince compared to uber-tool Gordon “Hell’s Kitchen” Ramsay, I always thought he was a first rate jerk. Off to the rubbish heap with you, Robert.