Foodie tourists! Kentucky culinary odyssey includes Seviche, Ghyslain, La...
A sign that culinary tourism has arrived here: Gwen Pratesi, the blogger behind Bunkycooks (a James Beard Award-nominated food and travel blog), is hosting a tour of Louisville restaurants designed to...
View ArticleLife skills and knife skills: Seviche to host private butchery classes
Some time ago, Seviche chef-owner Anthony Lamas mentioned in a Facebook posted how his kitchen staff loved to butcher whole animals such as pigs and fish. The remark caught the attention of a few...
View ArticleSeviche introduces new fall menu
Seviche chef Anthony Lamas has introduced a new menu at Seviche. November brings fall/winter dishes that reflect the season in both ingredients and style. The classics, like Kentucky Bison Empanadas...
View ArticleFour Roses Bourbon cocktail battle kicks off holiday season
Bars and restaurants along Bardstown Road and Baxter Avenue are mixing up holiday-inspired cocktails for the chance of being named champion in Four Roses’ third annual Holiday Bourbon Battle. According...
View ArticleNext Seviche Dinner and Movie: ‘A Christmas Story’ on Dec. 19
Chef Anthony Lamas will continue Seviche’s popular Dinner and Movie series on Wednesday, Dec. 19 with the film “A Christmas Story.” According to a news release, the feature will be shown on an...
View ArticleStars and Gripes: C-J’s star ratings are an offense to serious restaurants
The first time I read a one-star restaurant review in the New York Times 20 years ago, I thought surely then-critic Ruth Reichl (the best there ever was) was teeing it up for a long-ball lashing. I was...
View ArticleMixer bar creators Jim Pfeiffer and Larry Mitchell: ‘We want our clientele to...
Is it the bourbon craze? Is it people tiring of virtual interaction and seeking out the real thing? Whatever it is, the Highlands is becoming Louisville’s cocktail-and-conversation destination. First...
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Chef Lamas’s avocado ice cream named best ice cream treat in Kentucky
UPDATE: This story was updated with an Author’s Note at 5 p.m. Have you seen Chef Anthony Lamas’s famed avocado ice cream dessert? It’s gorgeous. At last year’s Taste of Innovation, an annual showcase...
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Six Kentucky restaurants on Southern Living’s ‘100 places to eat now’ list...
Southern Living, that Queen of the Magazine Lists, has yet another must-read restaurant post that, of course, includes Louisville. This one is the “100 Places to Eat Now” list, which apparently will be...
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Ambrosia Farm’s Brooke Eckmann achieves star status supplying tomatoes to top...
We’ve become quite accustomed in Louisville to celebrating the chefs and their local produce suppliers. It’s one of the things that makes our food scene so unique and so wonderful. But it’s always...
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More tasty news bits: Chef Lee’s new bourbon, Chef Lamas’s TV show, Blind...
This week is absolutely nuts for restaurant news. If you didn’t see yesterday’s post, start there. And trust us, we can’t print the half of what we’re being told about new projects underway. • Edward...
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Seviche to host dinner and movie event with ‘No Reservations’
The Dinner and Movie series at Seviche returns Tuesday, Feb. 4, with “No Reservations,” starring Catherine Zeta-Jones and Aaron Eckhart. The private dining room screening will be paired with a...
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New2Lou Recommends: Bourbon, blondes and Bitcoins
It’s cold, but the birds are chirping and sun is shining, which means spring is on it way! Louvillagers rejoice! To celebrate, we’ve handpicked a few extra events this week! And all of these are top...
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Restaurant Roundup: Grind opens, Loop lunches, Mayan teaches, experience the...
Ain’t nothin’ wrong with a little beef from Grind: Finally, after months of handwringing, inspection passing and “We’ll open soon” promising, Jesse and Liz Huot’s Grind Burger Kitchen (3311 Preston...
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Insider restaurant writer Steve Coomes publishes book on country ham
So I published my first book last month. It’s done. It’s over. That career stepping stone beast is slain, and now it’s time to promote and sell the darn thing. Any romance drawn from reporting,...
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Restaurant Roundup: Seviche alum chefs reunite at Loop, Harvest burger...
Reuniting and closing the generation gap: On Aug. 18, three former Seviche chefs and their former boss, Seviche chef Anthony Lamas, will reunite at Loop 22 to host a Buffalo Trace Bourbon-centered...
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Restaurant Roundup: Mesh opening in March, chefs come and go, Barrel House...
March opening for Mesh: Bryan Norman, the general manager of the still-under-construction Mesh (3612 Brownsboro Road) told me Monday that the restaurant’s hoped-for February opening is unlikely and...
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Anthony Lamas’ Waffle House ‘stage’ proves challenge of short-order cooking
Continuing education for modern-day chefs is the stage (pronounced “staahzgh” or something like that; just make it sound Frenchy-cool), where one commits to observe and cook for free at someone else’s...
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Restaurant Roundup: No Barrel House, Don Juan Birria opens, Beard chances,...
Now that’s just downright unsocial: Barrel House Social, the beer-centered restaurant concept created by Bruce Rosenblatt and Tony Palombino, will not happen. In our story, Rosenblatt said the...
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Seviche hosting ‘Southern Uncovered’ Louisville edition party on July 5
If you’ve seen the names of Matt and Ted Lee floating around social media and linked to Louisville lately, it’s because the cookbook writers visited multiple restaurants and food businesses in the city...
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