by John LaFollete
‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondent
The people have spoken! Or written.
LEO published its annual Readers’ Choice Award winners in its Sept. 23 issue.  Included in the wide-ranging, highly subjective awards was, as always, a lengthy dining section.  Here’s a summary of the headlines:
I mean, clearly:  Jack Fry’s is clearly the best place in town…taking first [...]

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by Jessica Elliott
Ville Voice Eats Correspondent

Now Open: A new Jimmy John’s just opened on East Market Downtown. Michelle from Consuming Louisville suggests ordering Jimmy John’s from Derby City Espresso and enjoying the best of both worlds. Perfetto Pizzeria, a new Italian Deli on Linn Station Road, is now serving up sandwiches, salads, and pizza by [...]

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by Jessica Elliott
Ville Voice Eats Correspondent
Now Open: Captain Pepper Jack’s is a new restaurant on Taylorsville Road across the street from Bowman Field, offering menu items such as chicken and dumplings, lamb gyro, and babaganoush. [HotBytes Forum]
Double Vision: After more than a year away from the restaurant business, Anoosh Shariat will oversee the opening of [...]

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If you’re going to be eating out New Year’s Eve, you might as well do it right and ring in 2009 at one of the area’s ritzier restaurants.
Corbett’s, an American Place, will greet the New Year with a seven-course dinner for $100 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Chef Dean Corbett has created an elegant [...]

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Here’s a way I’d like to spend a Wednesday night: Asiatique is hosting a Passion for Fusion dinner on March 26. The event begins at 6:30 with a cocktail and hors d’oeuvre reception followed by a five-course dinner prepared by Chef Looi. If you don’t want to kick your salivary glands into high gear, don’t read [...]

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Asiatique chef-co-owner, Peng Looi, confirmed talk heard this weekend that he and his partners will open a new Asiatique Bistro and Lounge in West Chester, Ohio, which is just outside of Cincinnati en route to Dayton.
Looi called the new spot “a marriage” of his Asiatique and August Moon concepts and said it will be housed [...]

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Chef Peng Looi, owner of August Moon Bistro and co-owner-executive chef at Asiatique, has received the Jefferson Evans Award, a prestigious honor given minority chefs in America.
Evans was the first African-American graduate of the Culinary Institute of America in Hyde Park, N.Y., in 1947.
“It’s very gratifying … and my biggest (one) because it’s a national [...]

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