Attention, folks! The Louisville Beer Store has opened! The store, dedicated to specialty craft beer (!), has won a special spot in our heart. Craft bottles, growlers, beer flights, tastings, daily food stuffs from The Patron. Hello, heaven. Located on the corner of Shelby & Market, we plan on moving in to the store ASAP. [...]

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by John LaFollette ‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondent Beer No Matter Where It’s From: Fans of football and good beer have a great day ahead  Saturday.  Flanagan’s Ale House will host an event dubbed East Coast, West Coast, No Coast, in which brewing giants Dogfish Head (from Rehoboth Beach, Del.) and Stone (San Diego, Calif.) meet [...]

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by John LaFollette ‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondent Louisville’s gamble on the Theatre Square Marketplace development is looking like a pretty good one.  The development, located on 4th Street midway between Broadway and Chestnut, opened officially today with a ribbon-cutting ceremony attended by the mayor and the governor. Gov. Beshear called it “small business at its [...]

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by John LaFollette ‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondent Original. And Extra Original — Louisville Originals, the organization of local, independent restaurants, now has more than 10,000 members in its 7-month-old rewards program.  Members of the program accumulate points each time they eat at Louisville Originals restaurants and can exchange those points for gift certificates.  To celebrate [...]

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by John LaFollette ‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondent English Take on Kobe Beef: Chef Laurent Geroli is trying his take on the Kobe beef dinner—first offered to the Louisville public by chef John Varanese—at the chef’s table at the English Grill on Friday, Sept. 4.  Each of the 12 seats at the chef’s table, which was [...]

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by John LaFollette ‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondent If NuLu needs one thing to solidify its status as the Louisville district that’s become the hippest, the fastest, it’s a wine bar.  If it needs two things, it’s a wine bar-art gallery combo. Louisville businessman and wine connoisseur Mike Schnell has found what seems like a perfect [...]

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by John LaFollette ‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondent New menu worth the hike: The Westport General Store’s tradition of serving fine southern cuisine in a comfortable (if remote) setting and at comfortable prices will continue with some new menu items.  The restaurant has announced a new menu from Chef Rafael Hernandez that will include a “smokehouse [...]

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by John LaFollette ‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondent A little rain never hurt no one: Maybe Pamela Campbell, the owner of the Old Louisville Coffee Shop on Fourth Street, had that Tom Waits song in her head yesterday when she helped customers and strangers alike to find higher ground inside her store.  Campbell spent the worst [...]

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by Jessica Elliott Ville Voice Eats Correspondent The reopening of Browning’s at Louisville Slugger Field has been somewhat of a local success story – after closing in March 2008 because of the recessing economy, it was reopened by partners Anoosh Shariat and Paula Barmore. I had the pleasure of sitting down and talking with Shariat [...]

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by Jessica Elliott Ville Voice Eats Correspondent Mark Your Calendar: The Louisville Original second-quarter discount gift certificate sale will begin at 10 a.m. on July 16. [Originals] Contemporary Piano Bar: Dress up like F. Scott Fitzgerald and bring your date to the Brown Hotel lobby bar on Thursdays and Fridays from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m. [...]

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by Tom Johnson Ville Voice Eats Correspondent The most comprehensive wine list in town is the Seelbach’s, but almost no one under the age of 70 has ever seen it. Even with youth-intensive 4th Street Live just across the street, the Oak Roomís cellars are largely unknown in demographic groups that stay out past nine [...]

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By Tim Griton Ville Voice Eats Correspondent Beautiful days in Kentuckiana lead to more lunches out of the office. Yesterday, I decided to do something I haven’t done in the nearly 10 years that I’ve been working out of my current office: have lunch outside on Guthrie Green. Guthrie Green is that little piece of [...]

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By Stacey L. Robinson Ville Voice Eats Correspondent On the Wednesday after the Great Steamboat Race and as is customary, I take one of my celebrity friends out to dinner.  For the past couple of years, we’ve gone to Jeff Ruby’s.  I love the atmosphere and the crowd isn’t at all pretentious as I thought [...]

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by Tom Johnson ‘Ville Voice Eats Correspondent The location (at Fest-a-Ville on the Waterfront) is lovely, the spirit of the attendees properly festive and the wines are – well, they’re local. That’s the nature of the beast and anyone who doesn’t care for local wines can leave the rest of us to our joyful misery. [...]

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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 [...]

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