Worried about history repeating itself as we face inflation and recession in the restaurant economy? Here are a few suggestions that we learned in the last Great Recession.
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Biryani: India’s mouth-watering rice dish, a meal in itself, stands tall against other national rice-based competitors such as Spain’s paella, Italy’s risotto, Nigeria’s jollof rice, Indonesia’s nasi goreng, Louisiana’s jambalaya, or Persia’s pilaf. What is biryani, anyway? It’s a hearty rice dish layered with lamb, chicken, fish, or vegetables, scented with … Continue reading Hyderabad House brings the biryani
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Louisville is well into Lenten fish season now. Hungry supplicants are reportedly lining up at Friday church fish fries and local fish eateries too. And I’m not embarrassed to say that my fish fry report last month went locally viral enough to fill up my email and direct messages for a while. Most of your … Continue reading The fish just keep on coming
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Easter is late this year, and working backwards, that means that Mardi Gras and Ash Wednesday are a little behind schedule, too. Fat Tuesday is coming up on March 1, and Ash Wednesday, beginning the penitential season of Lent, arrives next week, on March 2. In other words, if you’ve been … Continue reading Happy Lent, and thanks for all the fish
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Ahh, Shady Lane Cafe! This lovable little East End diner-style cafe has been a popular lunch (and weekend dinner) spot since Bill Smith and Susi Wood opened it around 2004. It earned deserved popularity for its iconic Brownsboro burger and much more. All good things eventually move on, though, and in … Continue reading Burger vs Burger: It’s a win-win at Shady Lane Cafe
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com “Can you figure out how much your dinner will cost by counting the words on the menu? Food, and how we describe it, can tell us a lot about what it’s going to cost us when we go out to eat tonight.” The Louisville Free Public Library’s e-book blurb about Stanford … Continue reading The Language of Food: This book helps us interpret the menu and more
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com If you still think the recent wave of faux meats made from plants is just a passing fad that won’t last, consider this: On Monday, KFC rolled out Beyond Meat’s new plant-based chicken nuggets for a short-term test at all 4,000 U.S. shops, boxed not in the traditional red but a … Continue reading When KFC gets faux chik’n, plant-based meat’s time has come
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com And the hits just keep on coming. It seems appropriate, in a meta kind of way, to quote a hit by the musician and songwriter Michael Nesmith, who died this month, to mark the passing of two more Louisville restaurants as the year nears its close. Both spots – Faces Bar/Bistro … Continue reading Two more closings end a bleak 2021
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Just about a year ago, sadly listing about 30 favorite restaurants that had closed forever during the first full year of Covid-19, I wrote, “the arrival of a pandemic that none of us saw coming at this time last year turned 2020 into a swirling black whirlpool that didn’t make anyone … Continue reading Why leave? Local chef becomes a full-time Dad
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com If I was asked to name a local chef most likely to join the Great Resignation, I would never have thought of Meghan Levins. Yet now she’s a full-time webinar monitor for a national virtual education firm. Look at Levins’ biography, you might think, “There’s a chef for life.” She’s been working … Continue reading The Great Resignation: Why a CIA-trained chef quit
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Imagine yourself as the owner and cook at a popular short-order diner. Suddenly you look around and discover that the price of your cooking oil has tripled, and you can’t buy biscuits for love or money. Those challenges make things tough when your customers are looking for breakfast all day and the many fried delights … Continue reading D. Nalley’s owner gives an MBA’s-eye view of the supply-chain roller-coaster
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Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Winter is coming. Will it be another bumpy ride for local restaurants? Can we do anything to help? As I see it, we’re facing an alarming trifecta of troubling problems as Pandemic Winter II draws near: • Even with widespread vaccination, we haven’t achieved herd immunity. Covid is still around, the Delta … Continue reading Shortages and Covid fear foretell another bleak winter
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Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com If you have lived in Louisville for more than a year or so, you’re surely mourning at least one favorite restaurant that isn’t with us any more. A lot of us are mourning dozens! The restaurant business is a rough road, and success is far from guaranteed in a business with very … Continue reading Memories! Recalling the restaurants we loved and lost
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Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com A lot of people call Vietnamese or Nigerian eateries “ethnic,” but they look at you funny if you use the same word to describe a pizzeria or a fancy French dining room. What’s up with that? “Immigrants’ identities are deeply tied to the foods we bring with us,” Washington Post features writer … Continue reading Travel on a plate with our critic’s favorite world restaurants
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By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com “What is your favorite restaurant?” “What’s the best restaurant in town?” As a frequent diner who writes about my experiences, I get these questions often. My stock answers, though, aren’t as simple as you might expect: My favorite is probably wherever I ate last. The best? I won’t name just one. … Continue reading What’s the critic’s favorite restaurant? It’s complicated.
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