Roger Baylor

Edibles & Potables: “My Porcelain Past” (when the Highlands White Castle closed in 1988)

 As originally published at F&D on December 19, 2023, this post was one of the most viewed of the entire year.  — Fast food restaurants typically don’t fall into Food & Dining Magazine’s coverage perimeter. However, there are exceptions, and today is one. Upon learning that the White Castle in St. Matthews (4020 Shelbyville […]

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KRA Louisville Chapter’s 52nd Annual “A Taste of Louisville” is Wed., Oct. 14

The Kentucky Restaurant Association’s annual The Taste of Louisville dates to 1974, making it by far the most enduring of food tasting events in the city’s modern history. The 52nd edition of The Taste of Louisville in 2026 will take place at the Mellwood Art Center (1860 Mellwood Avenue) on Wednesday, October 14. Following is […]

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Hip Hops: Culture shock in ME, NH, VT and MA (and Kentuckiana too)

Last week I observed that in 2025… Maine, with only 1,414,874 residents (42nd) had 157 breweries (21st), or 14.2 per capita (2nd). That’s right. Second ― to Vermont nearby, which has 15.4 breweries per capita. When I wrote these words prior to our vacation departure, I knew we’d be visiting Maine. However, Vermont wasn’t on […]

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Norma Jean’s Baked Goods shifts locations in New Albany

In its original and specific usage, “groundswell” means deep ocean ripples or waves, as initiated by distant storms or seismic events. However, “groundswell” has come to describe certain upsurges in human affairs: a seemingly sudden and rapid expression of collective opinion, usually in support of someone or something. Akin to Beatlemania — or Norma Jean’s, […]

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Pide Point brings Turkish street food to Fern Creek

Pide Point (and at Facebook) is a new chef-owned Turkish restaurant in Fern Creek, which opened in early September. Stone-oven pide, lahmacun, kebabs and köfte — dine in, takeout and delivery at 5404 Delmaria Way. The web site has concise menu assistance. Pide: Turkish boat-shaped flatbread from the stone oven — often called Turkish pizza. Lahmacun: […]

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Apron Inc.’s “10-Taste Experience” on Oct. 11 honors the late Chef Ellen Gill McCarty

As a preface, here at Food & Dining Magazine we help spread the word about APRON Inc. as often as possible. Apron Inc. was created in 2011 to help provide financial relief to food and beverage industry workers in the Louisville, Kentucky metropolitan area who find themselves in need during times of crises. Because of the COVID-19 pandemic, […]

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Hip Hops: Alan Pugsley, Peter Austin and that pre-NEIPA, NE state of mind (and brewing)

In 2025, Indiana was home to 185 breweries, good for 18th in the United States, which works out to 3.7 breweries per capita (defined as “breweries per 100,000 adults over the age of 21”). That’s a ranking of 28th. Indiana’s population in 2015 was 6,973,333, or 17th in the country. Meanwhile Maine, with only 1,414,874 […]

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Apron Inc.’s “Happy Hour Friend-Raiser” at Osteria Italian Seafood (Wed., Sept. 30)

Again in 2026, Apron Inc. is staging happy hour “friend-raisers” at different locations, always on the last Wednesday of each month. The next Happy Hour Friend-Raiser takes place on Wednesday, September 30 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Osteria Italian Seafood, 1211 Herr Lane in Westport Village. The prospectus: Complimentary tasting experience featuring Jefferson’s […]

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Edibles & Potables: Mediterranean food is fine, so leave “diet” out of it (2026)

Let’s follow up. Your faithful digital editor’s pescetarianism has proven to be sustainable, for the most part. My vague culinary objective for the past five years, and probably long before, has been to steer my food intake toward a Mediterranean-style regimen, with vegetables appearing in greater quantities and meat, while permitted, consumed far more rarely […]

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Adelita Mexican Restaurant will move to the former Chik’n & Mi quarters

On September 4, Adelita Mexican Restaurant had a big announcement. — WE’VE BEEN A LITTLE QUIET… BUT FOR A GOOD REASON First, we want to say sorry for being a little under the radar lately on Instagram and Facebook. Behind the scenes, we’ve been working nonstop on something very special for Adelita. And we’re finally […]

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Hip Hops: Those first-ever draft Pilsner Urquells in Prague, 1987

Do I often write about European reveries? Yes, I do. As Archie Bunker once sang, “those were the daze.”  One afternoon in August, 1987 an archaic device affixed to the wall started ringing. I lifted the plasticized receiver from its cradle, gently brushing against the numerical rotary dial. Kindly recall that we lived in caves […]

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Sebastian Moh’s Serai restaurant is open in Clifton

Serai, the word for lemongrass in Malaysian, is open in the space vacated last year by DiFabio’s Casapela (2311 Frankfort Ave. in Clifton). At Louisville Business First, reporter Michael L. Jones spoke with Sebastian Moh, Serai’s owner and chef. “Serai is a neighborhood restaurant focused on Malaysian and Thai spices, herbs and techniques, together with […]

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Edibles & Potables: The myriad joys of Vienna’s Tram “D”

During my stay in Rome in 1985, a veteran Australian wanderer taught me a “wedding crasher” trick he claimed to have learned in Greece when not otherwise preoccupied with devouring skewers of souvlaki, cradling drams of ouzo, and ineffectually pursuing love near the Aegean (or was it beer?) beaches. The Australian said that he had […]

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It’s “75 Years of Zesto” in New Albany on Sat., Sept. 19

Zesto is a New Albany institution, full stop. In its original incarnation, Zesto was a post-war ice cream chain. From the mid-1950s, amid financial difficulties at the top, individual unit owners like the Rosenbargers began taking the chain local (for more on the history of New Albany’s Zesto, including the welcomed evolution of its cheeks […]

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Chef in a Box (Sept. 16, 17): Cuvée Wine Table, featuring Arthur Berry, Scott Harper and Stephen Dennison

Cuvée Wine Table 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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