Roger Baylor

Welcome to Labor Day, 2026

As holidays go, Labor Day doesn’t pack quite the emotional punch of Memorial Day, or provide religious imagery for believers, as with Christmas. Googling “Labor Day food” yields thousands of links to picnic and grilling tips, but nothing as metaphorical as the Thanksgiving turkey and fixings. It seems that a celebration of work, preferably undertaken […]

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Edibles & Potables: Food fads are not the same as food trends

Merriam-Webster cuts to the quick. fad (noun): : practice or interest followed for a time with exaggerated zeal : craze My deep personal antipathy toward faddishness predates the soullessness-on-demand atrocities of the modern era. However, it is possible that the chip on my shoulder grows heavier when temps are in the nineties, and my patience is tested. […]

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Osteria Italian Seafood celebrates three years with Chef Henry Wesley’s forthcoming new menu

Wait, it’s been only three years? Osteria Italian Seafood feels like an dining institution (and destination) of much longer standing. Third anniversary celebrations are underway, and what you need to know is summarized in this information release. — Osteria Italian Seafood Celebrates Three Years, Launches New Menu Under Chef Henry Wesley Three years, countless plates […]

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Hip Hops: “A Potable Cynic’s Word Book,” and what’s to come

Wikipedia provides a convenient definition to get these balls rolling. Satire is a genre of the visual, literary, and performing arts, usually in the form of fiction and less frequently non-fiction, in which vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings are held up to ridicule, often with the intent of exposing or shaming the perceived flaws of […]

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Parlour Pizza in, Derby City Pizza out (where Dundee Tavern used to be)

At Louisville Business First, Michael L. Jones reports that the Belknap neighborhood is about to witness a pizzeria swap at 2224 Dundee Rd., onetime home of Dundee Tavern. Parlour Pizza takes over former Dundee Tavern property Louisville-based Neace Ventures has acquired the former Dundee Tavern property in the Highlands for a new Parlour Pizza + […]

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The Misfit Lou and The Hereafter both have departed

This message seems to have appeared last week at The Misfit Lou and The Hereafter’s social media accounts. It was a good run, just shy of three years. Their last day at 119 S. 7th St. (downtown) was Friday; we bid them farewell.  — There’s really no good way to say this, so we’re just […]

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La Raíz Mexican restaurant is coming to Butchertown (in place of Nami)

 Located on the famously disputed border of Butchertown and NuLu, La Raíz Mexican restaurant will replace the departed Nami Modern Korean Steakhouse, which departed around Thanksgiving time in 2025. La Raiz Mexican restaurant to open in former Nami space, by Michael L. Jones (Louisville Business First) La Raiz will be located at 835 E. […]

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Hip Hops: ACBHoF’s 2026 Landmark Craft Beers and CAMRA’s “you’re being lied to” push

The American Craft Beer Hall of Fame’s inaugural class of “Landmark Beers” was announced in August, 2025: Anchor Liberty Ale, Anchor Steam Beer, Celis White (Witbier), Samuel Adams Boston Lager and Sierra Nevada Pale Ale. Landmark Beers: This page is dedicated to individual beers that have left a lasting mark on American brewing and drinking […]

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Burritos as big as … BTW, Louisville’s nocturnal fave La Bamba is no more

La Bamba to take a break, tear down and rebuild It is perhaps unusual that I can provide readers with the exact date of my first and only visit to La Bamba. The British band Gomez was touring in support of its then-current album “How We Operate,” and played at Headliners Music Hall on October […]

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Taste of Bullitt County is Sept. 20 at Paroquet Springs Conference Centre

Troy King dropped this in the electronic mail slot the other day. I am the owner of Velvet Couch Hospitality Group based in Louisville, Kentucky.  We, along with Amber Odle, the event planner for the City of Shepherdsville and Bullitt County Tourism are hosting an event called Taste of Bullitt County in September 20, 2026 […]

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Hip Hops: An unseasonal Oktoberfest (beer style) three-way, plus grudging pumpkin ale

(Your attention is directed to this week’s installment of “40 Years in Beer”: Part 93: Beer, circus, and the Great NABC vs. Big Red Liquors War of 2003.) As our schoolteachers gladly will attest, repetition is an inescapable element of their working lives. Students in second grade this year may comprise different faces, but the […]

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News and Tribune reports that Baer’s City Winery in New Albany is “permanently closed”

The scoop goes to Molly Gregory at the News and Tribune. Baer’s City Winery in downtown New Albany closes ‘permanently’ Baer’s City Winery & Brick Oven Kitchen, a downtown New Albany business next to Bicentennial Park, has closed its doors permanently. A sign on the door Tuesday reads “permanently closed.” Baer’s City Winery, otherwise known […]

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Magnolia Bakery is open in Phoenix Hill — maybe. Or tomorrow, and if not, then next Tuesday

I just did a round of Google and social media searching to determine whether the much discussed local franchise of NYC’s Magnolia Bakery is, as yet, open for business. The choices, as gleaned from five widely ranging minutes of diminishing returns, are: not open at all, already open, will be opening Tuesday the 18th, won’t […]

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Apron Inc.’s “Happy Hour Friend-Raiser” at Monnik Beer Co. (Wed., Aug. 26)

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, August 26 from 5:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at Monnik Beer Co., 1036 E. Burnett Ave, in Schnitzelburg. The prospectus: Complimentary tasting experience featuring Jefferson’s […]

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The Exchange NuLu is now open at Hotel Genevieve

The week’s top Louisville dining story originates in NuLu, where The Exchange NuLu at Hotel Genevieve officially opened yesterday (Wednesday, August 12). Reservations can be scored at OpenTable. Your correspondent is a card-carrying New Albanian, naturally patriotic when it comes to planting flags on yonder side of the river. As such, this opening is uncommonly delightful. […]

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