OPENINGS & CLOSINGS

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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Hot off the presses: The Spring 2025 issue of Food & Dining Magazine has hit the streets

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. Subscribe to our award-winning print publication and have it delivered to your door each issue. FEATURES PROFILE | Perso: “Cook what you feel,” says multi-faceted Chef Emil David of […]

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Joy Luck closes its East End location

Joy Luck’s East End location at 9850 Von Allmen Court has closed after a nine-year run. The announcement appeared at Facebook. Joy Luck’s flagship in the Highlands (for purists, actually it’s Cherokee Triangle; 1285 Bardstown Rd.) remains open for business. The text: After 9 incredible years, we’ve made the bittersweet decision to close our Joy […]

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The last day for New Albany’s Honey Creme Donut Shop is March 3

Late last summer the owners of New Albany’s venerable Honey Creme Donut Shop (514 Vincennes St.) announced that they were seeking a buyer, and an auction process was arranged, which ultimately did not yield a new investor. They carried on, but now the business will shutter after a final day of business on Monday, March […]

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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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Earlybird Bagel Shop is no more

Earlybird Bagel Shop opened in spring of 2024 at 1039 Ash St. in Germantown, sharing space with the ever-shapeshifting Six Forks Burgers. Last week a closing announcement came over the interwaves. Here is the text: We regret to inform that Earlybird is no more. A serious issue forces us to refocus our time and efforts […]

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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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Ensō in Clifton intends to reopen by April

Writing at Louisville Business First, Michael L. Jones brings us up to date on Ensō (1756 Frankfort Ave. in Clifton) as the restaurant nears reopening after a fire last autumn (upstairs in the same building, not in the restaurant itself). Ensō to reopen with expanded menu after fire A Clifton restaurant blending cuisine from Japan […]

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It’s a family affair as Derby City Pizza comes to Highview

Derby City Pizza is back in the news. When 15-year-old Larry Davis went to work at a local pizzeria in 1991, you might say the pie was cast. His family-oriented local pizza chain stresses solid and reasonably priced Italian food, with seven signature pizzas as well as a build-your own; gluten free and low carb […]

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Fried chicken and more: Dirty Bird’s grand opening is Feb. 10th

Previously I surveyed the advent of the latest in fried chicken near Germantown. There’ll be Dirty Bird at the former Tim Tam near Germantown The soft opening ceremonies are concluding, and Dirty Bird is here. Grand opening is February 10, and here’s the description I wrote for our Dining Guide (the next F & D […]

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