A sad note we received. . . 
Louisville’s venerated Café Metro is closing this weekend. For good.
The restaurant’s last day of operation will be Saturday, Sept. 19th.  Despite such heroic rescue efforts like Chef Gary Byler, Jr.’s new small plates menu, a more casual atmosphere in its new piano bar, and specially themed events such as [...]

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by Tim Girton
Ville Voice Eats Correspondent
Cue Freddie Mercury and the boys.
“And another one down, and another one down/Another one bites the dust…”
On Thursday, Louisville lost another landmark restaurant with the closing of The Fifth Quarter Steakhouse on Durrett Lane, near the Kentucky Exposition Center and Male High School. The economy gets the lion’s share of [...]

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by Tim Girton
Ville Voice Eats Corresondent
How do you remember the cheeseburger? Is it as one of those mama burgers filled with onions, bell peppers and all the other ingredients that mothers loved and you couldn’t stand? I remember telling my mother point-blank that the restaurants don’t serve them that way. Mom always insisted that hers [...]

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The Clarksville location of Mark’s Feed Store closed its doors after business hours Sunday, Dec. 7 and will reopen in a newly renovated facility in New Albany located at 3827 Charlestown Road. According to manager Dave Schulz, the reopening is set for Thursday, December 11. The décor will remain the same and the new digs [...]

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It’s quite a setback for downtown when the acclaimed restaurants in the absolute ideal location can’t make it.
But last night was the end of the line for Park Place on Main and Browning’s, located at Slugger Field. Park Place, in particular, had been gaining acclaim and Chef Jay Denham one of the most recognized chefs [...]

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by Zak Owens
Remembering Ferd’s- People are missing Ferd Grisanti’s, which closed 2 1/2 months ago. Well, they miss Ferd’s when it was actually good. The C-J’s Ron Mikulak has received an influx of mail regarding the late J-Town institution, including some recipes. [C-J]
International Fun- Louisville will once again be hosting the International WorldFest Labor Day [...]

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Hitch the Wagon: John Schnatter’s Calistoga Bakery Cafe will open its first Louisville location this year in Dupont Circle.  The building it’s remodeling has hosted several restaurant concepts, beginning with Bennigan’s and most recently a Chinese buffet restaurant. I seem to remember a Mexican stage, too. We’re hopful for Schnatter’s enterprise, which has been compared [...]

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McDonald’s is amping up its coffee offerings with its McCafe coffee line, and one of the first of McDonald’s 13,700 U.S. restaurants to offer it is the newly-remodeled restaurant in the Highlands, at 1245 Bardstown Road. Another is at the corner of Taylorsville Road and TrevilianWay.
Capuccinos, Lattes and Mocha drinks will be on the menu,  [...]

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By Kim Williams
Fans of the Lentini’s Italian tradition in the Highlands have reason to get excited about the new Marcello’s, set to open in August on Bardstown Road.
Marcello Farham, the former executive chef of the now defunct Da Vinci’’s Ristorante by Lentini’’s Little Italy on Shelbyville Road, plans to offer a menu similar to Lentini’s, [...]

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The ever-observant foodies over at Louisville Hot Bytes passed along these tidbits in the site’s forum.
Stratto’s in Clarkesville closed on Easter Sunday, but will live on, sort-of, as a catering site for the Bristol Bar and Grille set to open in the same town later this year.
Editor Robin Garr reported BLUMediterranean Grille and Bar (in the [...]

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It’s a shame Wings-N-Things on Hurstbourne Parkway never made it. It was as nice a strip center spot as you could find for a place to get a beer, wings and a burger for a decent price. But, alas, the restaurant business is a hands-on biz, and investor owners (it was owned by a UPS [...]

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The Courier-Journal recently reported both Seviche locations (1538 Bardstown Road and 2929 Goose Creek Road) will close on Sundays through the end of April. Maybe that’s a hint as to when the Bardstown Road site’s patio will reopen (fingers crossed!)

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