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Mashup Food Hall is coming to PhoenixLu this summer

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online (or read it at issuu). Mashup Food Hall introduces itself. Strictly speaking, the new project is located in the Phoenix Hill neighborhood, but who are we to quibble? Mashup Food Hall is […]

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Authentic flavors of Honduras at the new Trujillo Restaurant in Okolona

Here’s Wikipedia with the pitch. Honduran cuisine is a fusion of Mesoamerican, Spanish, Caribbean and African cuisines. Coconut and coconut milk are featured in both sweet and savory dishes. Regional specialties include sopa de caracol, fried fish, tamales, carne asada and baleadas. Other popular dishes include meat roasted with chismol and carne asada, chicken with […]

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In the East End, Quezadillas Bar & Mexican Grill has debuted

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online (or read it at issuu). Quezadillas Bar & Mexican Grill opened in February and is located in the East End at 2300 Terra Crossing Blvd #104, which crosses Old Henry Rd. a […]

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Swig will bring “dirty” drive-by sodas to Jeffersonville

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online (or read it at issuu). Louisville welcomes the “Original Dirty Soda” chain, this hitherto unknown beverage being a creation traceable to Utah, and a desire to avoid alcohol and caffeine by artfully […]

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Chubby Ninja debuts in Middletown

Chubby Ninja opened in Middletown early March at 12951 Shelbyville Rd. The large menu includes chashu (Japanese braised pork belly), bao, ramen and sushi, and early returns suggest that the restaurant’s all-you-can-eat sushi is going to be a big draw. Here’s the current AYCE menu and terms. Two hours max, people. (I’ve drawn from Louisville […]

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Jerusalem Kitchen to have a new home in Logan Street Market

Reporting at Louisville Business First, Michael L. Jones has the scoop on Jerusalem Kitchen’s prospective return following a little more than a year’s hiatus. The restaurant serves Mediterranean and Middle Eastern dishes. Owner Sami Barghouthi explains his choice of Logan Street Market (1001 Logan Street), and Jones provides the back story. Restaurant to reopen in […]

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Perú Peruvian and Latin Cuisine is open in Middletown

Peruvian cuisine reflects local practices and ingredients including influences mainly from the indigenous population, including the Andean and Amazonian cuisine, and cuisines brought by immigrants from Europe (Spanish cuisine and Italian cuisine), Asia (Chinese cuisine and Japanese cuisine), and Africa (Maghrebi cuisine and West African cuisine). Without the familiar ingredients from their home countries, immigrants […]

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Elliment Restaurant and Lounge, a Jamaican option opening soon downtown

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online (or read it at issuu). Local media reports the imminent opening of a restaurant downtown specializing in Jamaican cuisine: Elliment Restaurant and Lounge, to be located at 707 S. Third St. Elliment […]

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M. Peppers, a French bistro coming soon to The Bellwether Hotel

The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online (read it at issuu). The Bellwether Hotel opened in the Highlands in 2021 at 1306 Bardstown Road, repurposing two buildings (and later a third), with Nostalgic as its eatery […]

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Olé: Bourbon & Burgers is in, and Señora Arepa is out, in St. Matthews

Perhaps Olé Hospitality Group’s greatest strength lies with its aptitude for rejigging successful strategies into fresh and invariably popular new concepts, the latest of which is currently forthcoming in St. Matthews at Bourbon & Burgers (117 St. Matthews Ave.), combining Steak & Bourbon’s libations with Mussel & Burger Bar’s signature sandwiches, adding wings and upper-end […]

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La Fogata Taqueria is open for business in New Albany

Over the winter the long-dormant former Applebee’s building on Grant Line Road in New Albany began stirring, and was completely transformed on the exterior, erasing most of the chain restaurant traces. We love it when indies reclaim their turf. Eventually I saw an alcoholic beverage application, and the waiting game began. Here’s the “blurb,” as […]

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Passenger, a new bar coming soon to Shelby Park

Here’s something to look forward to in Shelby Park, coming in 2025, as well as a shoutout to my former P&u colleague Calvin Philley. Today’s cover photo credit: Kentucky Historical Society. New neighborhood bar from owners of Darling’s to open in Louisville in 2025: What to know, by Amanda Hancock (Louisville Courier Journal) A new concept […]

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Carryout only: Tavern to Go coming soon to Old Louisville

Previously at this address, when Hill Street Fish & Seafood ceased to be: Hill Street Fish & Seafood is no more At Louisville Business First, ace reporter Michael L. Jones goes beyond the “coming soon” announcement and into the heads of the business operators. The lesson: whenever it is possible to do one new thing […]

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More on Pluk’d and Good Bowl (the former Tucker’s) in New Albany

In December, F & D reported that the former Tucker’s American Favorites floor space at 2441 State Street in New Albany was to be reimagined as two updated concepts. Pluk’d and Good Bowl, coming where Tucker’s American Favorites used to be The projected reimagination has proceeded apace, and the debuts of Pluk’d and Good Bowl […]

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Hip Hops: Why I’m pumped about Monnik’s new Rose Hill Lager Haus

Hi, I’m Roger, an erstwhile “beer guy” charged with holding down this digital fort in quiet desperation, or something like that (the metaphors flow like craft cocktail programs in frantic times like these). Today is not customarily “Hip Hops” day, but I drink the pint I’m dealt/handed/poured, which comes to me from Amanda Hancock at […]

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