A trip to Jamaica in a takeout box from Eden & Kissi

By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com My friend Erica posted a Facebook challenge: “Y’all…look. This place. These wings. Go. Robin Garr, have you been here yet?” It came with a photo of a succulent golden brown chicken wing the size of a turkey wing, a tantalizing treat from Eden & Kissi. That was last September, and I … Continue reading A trip to Jamaica in a takeout box from Eden & Kissi →

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Burger vs Burger: It’s a win-win at Shady Lane Cafe

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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The Language of Food: This book helps us interpret the menu and more

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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Delicious tofu takeout at Heart & Soy

By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com I’m pretty sure I unleashed a small rant last autumn when the Delta variant was coming on, threatening to retreat into takeout dining until things blew over a bit. I didn’t actually do that. I’m vaccinated, and now boosted too, so what, me worry? But the other day, eyeing news reports … Continue reading Delicious tofu takeout at Heart & Soy →

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How to Keep Your Hair Anchored

KeepItAnchored is sponsoring today’s post, but, as always, all thoughts and opinions are my own. Thank you for supporting the brands that support me!  If you’ve been around on the blog or Instagram for any time at all you’ve more than likely seen me with a myriad of hairstyles, but one thing has always remained the same. My affinity for having good hair – whether that be long and in a man bun or rocking a buzz cut.  Over the last month I’ve been […]

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When KFC gets faux chik’n, plant-based meat’s time has come

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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Simply Mediterranean brings Lebanese flavor

By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Back in the late winter of 1984, I did my first restaurant review for The Louisville Times. I enjoyed a great dinner at a short-lived Lebanese restaurant on Bardstown Road with a Lebanese-American friend who spent a short time at the city’s afternoon paper before moving on to bigger things. Here … Continue reading Simply Mediterranean brings Lebanese flavor →

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Two more closings end a bleak 2021

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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Why leave? Local chef becomes a full-time Dad

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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Eggholic lights up egg dishes with Indian flavors

By Robin Garr LouisvilleHotBytes.com Eggs are popular. Most people love them for breakfast, lunch, and even breakfast-for-dinner. So it’s no surprise that egg-centric eateries draw crowds in Louisville. Wild Eggs landed some 15 years ago; Con Huevos brought its Mexican flavors to our world of eggs in 2015. Now Eggholic has come to town to … Continue reading Eggholic lights up egg dishes with Indian flavors →

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The Great Resignation: Why a CIA-trained chef quit

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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