Ron Mikulak
(Executive Editor) Ron Mikulak, a founding staff member and former Editor-in-Chief of F&D, has also served as the Assistant Food Editor at the Courier-Journal, where for nine years he managed the test kitchen, cooked hundreds of restaurant dishes requested by C-J readers for the "Cook's Corner" column and developed his own recipes for feature articles. After retiring from the newspaper in 2013 he happily returned to F&D, where he now writes the popular columns “Cooking with Ron” and "Comings and Goings." Ron also pens the pithy restaurant guide blurbs that try to capture the spirit of all the area restaurants.
After some time searching for a retail space that would allow him more room in a more visible location to display his bourbon-inspired products, such as bourbon soy sauce, bourbon-infused vanilla extract and bourbon sea salt, Bourbon Barrel Foods...
The restaurant biz, everyone says, is a chancy one, fraught with big uncertainties (Can the market support another one of us? Is our style of food, or ambiance, on the money, or past its prime? Will this location draw...
La Coop: Bistro à Vins, 732 E. Market St., will close after giving one last big New Year’s bash. Falls City Hospitality Group, which owns and operates La Coop as well as Doc Crow's Southern Smokehouse and Raw Bar...
Pizza Hut, a part of the Yum! Brands fast-food empire, and purveyor of middle-of-the-road pizza to Middle America, is rethinking its image. In addition to an updating of its familiar red roof logo, the chain is expanding its pizza...
The main concourse at the KFC Yum! Center has a new attraction for thirsty fans in the upper level seats who need some relief from their happy shouting for the winning Cardinals (and other events too). Heaven Hill Distilleries...
The Dundee Tavern, long-time anchor of the dining and entertainment corridor along Dundee Rd. off Bardstown Rd. at the Douglass Loop, has been sold to Chris Ross and Susan Conway, who have worked as a catering chef and catering director,...
A bar and grill in Louisville, and a popular coffee house and cafe in Jeffersonville have recently announced their closings.
Mulligan’s Pub & Grille, 1801 Newburg Rd. (a location that will forever referred to in Louisville as “where Kaelin’s used...
For some families, going out to eat for Thanksgiving has been a happy tradition: good food; pleasant, emotionally neutral surroundings; people waiting on you and no cleaning up. (Usually no leftovers either, but you win some and lose some.)
The...
Friday, Nov. 21 from 6 to 11 p.m. Copper & Kings American Brandy Co., 1121 E. Washington St., will host “A Family Affair” on the Butchertown distillery’s outdoor courtyard. The party, sponsored by Heine Brothers, Bourbon Barrel Foods, Willett...
Two long-standing, American roadhouse style restaurants and watering holes, K.T.'s and Austin's have been sold to new owners.
The popular, long-lived Lexington Rd. restaurant and bar, K.T.’s has been sold to Kevin Grangier, owner of popular Anchorage restaurant the Village...
