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Chef in a Box (April 16, 17): Red Yeti, featuring Chef Michael Bowe

Thursday morning update: Red Yeti’s chef in a box is SOLD OUT.  The Red Yeti Restaurant is next for APRON Inc.’s Chef in a Box promotion, but first the bigger picture.  Food & Dining Magazine continues to preview the forthcoming Chef in a Box offering. It’s a tasty fundraising project dating to the summer of 2020, […]

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Flooded with memories, metro Louisville experiences a thunderous silence

As the Oasis front man Liam Gallagher is known to say, it has been “biblical” for local businesses thus far in 2025. There have been interruptions in January owing to snow and ice, multiple flooding events including the current all-timer, a subsequent first-ever-weather-related cancelation of Thunder Over Louisville, disruptive Doge blitzkriegs and gutting tariffs, and […]

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New Albany name change: Petra Mediterranean, formerly Aladdin’s

To my knowledge, the newly dubbed Petra Mediterranean Restaurant (37 Bank St., part of the Underground Station retail plaza) is the only locally-owned, independent (bricks ‘n’ mortar) purveyor of Middle Eastern food in Southern Indiana. Google corroborates this, but if I’m mistaken, please let me know. Operating until now as Aladdin’s, the Sajaja family business […]

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“Local restaurants rally for public awareness amid River Road closures”

Awareness is key, so let’s begin by making the point that the Louisville Water Company is fully aware of the impact of the River Road residual line project on several local restaurants. Louisville Water is like many in this community – we love supporting local restaurants. We know our construction project along River Road means […]

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Chef in a Box (March 19, 20): Noosh Nosh, featuring GM Akshay Kadam

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). Noosh Nosh is next for APRON Inc.’s Chef in a Box promotion, but first the bigger picture.  For the first time ever, 100% of the proceeds from Noosh […]

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Ramen House will move to the former Gary’s on Spring in Irish Hill

We are bringing traditional Ramen, Rice bowls, different kinds of buns, and handmade gyoza to Louisville! According to Matthew Glowicki at the Louisville Courier Journal, Ramen House will be leaving Mid City Mall for a new location in Irish Hill. With the Highlands mall now officially for sale and awaiting redevelopment, owner Jonathan Ham decided […]

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A look at Brittany’s Brick Oven Pizza in Madison, Indiana

Consider this post as an unsolicited testimonial. Admittedly, I’m ranging outside F & D’s customary coverage area, but Madison in Indiana is much closer than Skopje or Tirana in the Balkans, and even inveterate Europhiles like me remain stateside a majority of the time. Most importantly, if you’re interested in history and somehow have never […]

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Chef in a Box (Feb. 19, 20): Noche Mexican BBQ, featuring chef Aaron Diaz

Noche Mexican BBQ is next for APRON Inc.’s Chef in a Box promotion, but first the bigger picture.  Food & Dining Magazine continues to preview the forthcoming Chef in a Box offering. It’s a tasty fundraising project dating to the summer of 2020, benefiting APRON Inc.’s ongoing grant program. The Chef in a Box promotion continues […]

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The Café in Paristown is adding an event venue

The Paristown Arts District’s web site provides an introduction to the neighborhood. Located on roughly 7 acres along Beargrass Creek in between Germantown and downtown Louisville, the neighborhood of Paristown is composed of historic buildings, single-family homes, businesses, and Louisville’s newest entertainment venue, Old Forester’s Paristown Hall. Great care has been given to revitalizing Paristown, […]

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Noam Bilitzer is a James Beard semifinalist for best chef in the southeast

Rewind to the summer of 2023. MeeshMeesh Mediterranean to open in August at the former Wiltshire on Market space Among other achievements in its brief history, Meesh Meesh has singlehandedly brought the word “Levantine” back to Louisville. Now the restaurant’s executive chef, Noam Bilitzer, is a semifinalist for the prestigious 2025 James Beard awards. WDRB […]

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Fresco Tea Bar has a new owner, to become Boba Bun

Fresco Tea Bar has a new owner: Siliang Hu, originator of the Boba Bun food truck. Fresco Tea Bar began operations in 2020 inside the Mesa facility in downtown New Albany. Correct me if this is mistaken, but later this branch shifted to 2441 State St., near the I-265 interchange. A location at 1370 Veterans […]

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Chef in a Box (Jan. 15, 16): Lou Lou in Middletown, featuring chef Chris Pfeiffer

Lou Lou in Middletown is next for APRON Inc.’s Chef in a Box promotion, but first the bigger picture.  Food & Dining Magazine continues to preview the forthcoming Chef in a Box offering. It’s a tasty fundraising project dating to the summer of 2020, benefiting APRON Inc.’s ongoing grant program. The Chef in a Box promotion […]

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Off the Eaten Path: Shack in the Back BBQ

F&D’s editor-in-chief Marty Rosen focuses our quarterly “Off the Beaten Path” search on Fairdale, where Shack in the Back BBQ has been at work since 2006. When their original location was sold a few years ago, owners Mike and Barbara Sivells seamlessly relocated to the old Forcht Bank location across the street at 10706 W. […]

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