I’m going to come right out and say it: Meesh Meesh is one of the best new restaurants to come along in Louisville lately.
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com The abrupt recent closing of the beloved local restaurant Come Back Inn came as another worrisome note in what feels like an ongoing dirge for our fretful food-loving community: Who’s next? Is Louisville’s fame as a dining destination fading away in the post-pandemic age’s hard times? In a brief farewell tailored … Continue reading Hard times come a’knockin’ at our door
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LEO Weekly’s annual Readers’ Choice Awards went public this week. LEO staff tallied all the votes submitted by readers in scores of categories, and in this week’s edition let everyone know who you think is the cream of the crop in each category. A few categories ended in ties, a lucky happening that brings you … Continue reading LEO Weekly 2023 Readers’ Choice Awards plus my picks: Choi’s and V-Grits
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Here’s an existential question about the art of the food critic: Should a restaurant review stick to the simple basics of food, mood, and service? Or does a review gain texture and meaning by bringing in a broader range of history, culture, culinary arts and other trips down fascinating rabbit holes? … Continue reading More thoughts from the critic’s table
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com I’m not great at small talk, but I love chaat. Okay, I can hear the chorus of boos from here. I’ll just show myself out. Seriously, though, the Indian street food delight known as chaat appeals to me, so much so that a search on the word in the Louisville HotBytes … Continue reading We chaat it up at Shreeji Indian
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com If you’ve long harbored a wish to go viral on social media but didn’t know where to start, here’s a modest proposal: Speak of your undying love for pizza topped with pineapple … and anchovies. That should do it, and if it costs you a few lost friends and followers, well, … Continue reading We just can’t stop talking about pizza
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com If you haven’t heard about Chef Edward Lee’s new Korean restaurant Nami by now, it’s probably only because you haven’t been paying attention. The news about this Korean-American top chef opening his first Korean restaurant since his 20-something youth in New York City has been all over the place. Nami, which … Continue reading Nami: Korean-style fare with a side of Ed Lee
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Refusing to eat a disgusting dish may be one of the first things that we as humans can do to claim our individual agency, our right to yell “No!” “It’s broccoli, dear.” “I say it’s spinach, and I say the hell with it.” Carl Ross’ classic 1928 New Yorker cartoon captured … Continue reading Overcoming food aversions, restaurant-style
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Two popular East End restaurants did a kind of corporate musical chairs this fall: It all started when Goose Creek Diner closed its shop on Goose Creek Lane after more than 20 years, and Sal’s Pizza & Sports Pub on Lyndon Lane closed last December after a dozen years. Neighbors promptly … Continue reading The Goose has landed, and we’re happy about that
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Think about accessibility for disabled people in restaurants and other businesses, and you’ll probably visualize that familiar blue-and-white stick figure in a wheelchair. That’s not too surprising. The Americans With Disabilities Act, popularly known as the ADA, passed in 1990, is a civil-rights law that prohibits discrimination against individuals with disabilities … Continue reading Invisible disabilities: A challenge for restaurant accessibility
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com As autumn 2020 chilled into the first Covid winter, one of the hardest hits of a run of bad restaurant news came when Uptown Cafe announced that it was closing on the Saturday after Thanksgiving, seemingly ending a 35-year run as a fixture on Bardstown Road’s Restaurant Row. Uptown was comfortable, … Continue reading New Uptown Cafe, a lot like the old Uptown Cafe
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com I was putting on my disguise and puffing up my wig, getting ready to go review a restaurant, when a New York Times headline caught my eye: “The 21st-Century Shakedown of Restaurants.” (The Times’ headline is pictured above.) “This isn’t a joke,” opinion essayist Karen Stabiner wrote. “This is a 21st-century … Continue reading What’s an influencer? Is there money in it?
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Blue Dog Bakery celebrated a quarter-century of making great bread for Louisville’s people this year, and it’s hard for me to believe that it has been that long. It feels as if it was only recently, but it was actually way back in 1998 that I knocked on Blue Dog’s back … Continue reading Blue Dog achieves perfection, or comes mighty close
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com In the overall scheme of things, it hasn’t been all that long since Tim Berners-Lee invented the World Wide Web. And it’s still recent history when Steve Jobs started the process of getting a tiny, powerful computer into everyone’s pocket. How in the heck did we figure out how to eat … Continue reading “Find us on Facebook” Or not. Restaurants and social media
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Charcuterie. Not long ago, most of us weren’t even sure how to pronounce it. Now, says the National Restaurant Association, “Charcuterie makes the cut for 2023. A Top 3 hot menu trend and No. 1 in appetizers … charcuterie is a rising star on menus.” Indeed, charcuterie is showing up in … Continue reading We go for the big cheese, and charcuterie too, at Harvey’s
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