There’s a great interview with Susan Seiller, the former owner of Jack Fry’s restaurant, on the Louisville-based Website Vibrant Nation. The website provides advice and information for women over 50.
Seiller spent 22 years making sure diners had a pleasant, upscale experience at the Bardstown Road restaurant, before passing on the business to Stephanie Meeks earlier […]

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This week, we’ll be getting all kinds of national props from the media, but none bigger or better for a business than the mention of Jeff Ruby’s Steakhouse in the Wall Street Journal.
The business rag says Ruby’s is “. . .emerging as a favorite hangout for Kentucky Derby spectators and equestrian big shots over the […]

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Brohm-ville: On Saturday, Brian Brohm will be nervously anticipating his name being called in the NFL draft. Soon after, he’ll sign a multi-million dollar contract with an NFL team. But on Friday, Brohm will at the Qdoba in the Highlands, celebrating the first “Party on the Patio” of the season.
There will be live bands and […]

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Maybe it takes a little Hollywood to make a downtown Farmer’s Market a reality.
Louisville-born actor William Mapother, (Tom Cruise’s cousin) along with movie producer and Louisville transplant Gill Holland, are part of a group that has bought property downtown with the intention of creating a market that would rival the Pike Place Market in Seattle.
Holland, […]

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The long-awaited Hotel Nightclub will open on Feb. 22 at Fourth Street Live. The high-end watering hole will swallow up nearly 10,000 square feet left vacant by the Red Cheetah lounge, Parrot Beach and Palm Bar, which closed more than a year ago. Club owners expect to unveil an open-air, rooftop lounge this summer.

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Starks Building co-owner Mendel Hertz said a deal to bring McCormick & Schmick’s Seafood Restaurant, a high-end seafood chain, to the spot that housed Rodes for decades, is “very, very close.”
Based in Portland, Ore., McCormick & Schmick’s has 82 outlets in the U.S. and Canada.

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Brown-Forman Chef Mark Williams, who heads the spirits producer’s Bourbon Street Café, will serve as celebrity bartender at Proof on Main next month during a fund-raiser for Slow Foods Bluegrass.
All tips garnered by Williams, plus some proceeds from the event, scheduled for Sunday, Feb. 17 from 6 to 10 p.m., will go to SFB. Williams […]

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Some hotel-and-restaurant companies are rolling out the romantic carpet for Valentine’s Day with some suite deals on rooms and savory deals on meals.
Proof on Main and 21 C Museum Hotel: Chef Michael Paley has put together a four-course prix fixe menu ($50-$65, depending on choice of entrée) for lovers eager for Italian food.
The first course […]

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If you’ve ever watched the show, “Deadliest Catch,” on Discovery Channel, you have a greater appreciation for the effort it takes to haul Alaskan king crab from the frigid ocean depths to your dinner table.
Whether that makes you scramble to Morton’s The Steakhouse for its annual surf and turf special is another matter. But at […]

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If your February plans for romance include a swell dinner out, better get on the horn and call your fave spot to get a table on Feb. 14. Valentines Day is one of the busiest dinner nights all year at U.S. restaurants.
Park Place on Main’s (515-0172) Chef Jay Denham is rolling out a $75-per-person feast […]

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Just a month after spending $3 million and countless hours opening Corbetts, owner-chef Dean Corbett has set another goal: a Mobil Dining Guide five-star rating.
“I want it. I will get it. Or I’ll die trying,” Corbett told The Courier-Journal.
His ambition is a lofty one, to say the least. Casa Grisanti, which closed in 1991, was […]

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Local airline travelers probably have stopped at one of many Wolfgang Puck Express restaurants in U.S. airports and wished we had one in Louisville.
Wish no more, River City. Jan. 21 marks the day when a WPE opens in the Kentucky International Convention Center (am I the only one who still laughs at the “International” part […]

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Park Place on Main (515-0172, 401 East Main Street) is rolling out a pre-theater menu made especially for those rushing to get a bite before downtown plays and events. The $35-per-person theater menu is a three-course prix fixe feast available with two catches: You can only get it from 5 to 7 p.m., and everyone […]

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Five dollars goes a long way on Tuesdays at Blu Mediterranean Grille and Bar (280 W. Jefferson in the Marriott Hotel). Dubbed Tini Tuesdays, the shaking and stirring begins at 5 p.m. with Finlandia martinis selling for $5. Several appetizers hit the block at the same price, including: fried calamari: steamed mussels: mini goat cheese […]

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Seems no one told the gang at Park Place on Main you’re not supposed to wear whites after Labor Day (perhaps because few care about that rule). So they’ve cooked up a great fundraiser idea to help the Home of the Innocents: a Winter White Party on Thursday, Dec. 6.
The good news is this group […]

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