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.
A 7-year run for the fast casual Italian restaurant Puccini’s Smiling Teeth has come to an end as the home office of the chain closed its Shelbyville Road Plaza location at 4600 Shelbyville Road.
The Indianapolis-based Italian restaurant chain served...
Tomatoes garden grown, warm from the vine, waiting on the kitchen windowsill for dinner, is the quintessential image of summer that I take from my childhood. That must be why I look forward to the announcement of Winston’s tomato...
Each month during the summer, Limestone, 10001 Forest Green Blvd., adds a seasonally-themed special three-course prix-fixe menu option, available for dinner on Thursday, Friday or Saturday.
July’s special will be fresh tomato gazpacho with a garlic crouton and sour cream,...
New brooms sweep clean, they say, and newly appointed executive chef at The Place Downstairs Allan Rosenberg has swept away owner Fernando Martinez's original fine dining concept, and with Martinez's blessing will inaugurate the space below Mussel and Burger Bar later...
Thursday, July 17, from 6:30-7:30 p.m., Bristol Bar & Grille’s Scott Harper, Master Sommelier, and GM of the Jeffersonville, Ind., restaurant, 700 W. Riverside Dr., will lead a tasting of French wines. This will be a “walk-around” tasting, a...
Noted Louisville restaurateur, Anoosh Shariat, who, was slated to be executive chef at Mesh when it opened in the fall in the site of the old Azalea (and older La Paloma. And old, old site of Bauer's) on Brownsboro...
I admit it: I am a sucker for almost any wine labeled “Old Vine.” Grapes from old vines have to be better, don’t they? And the same goes for whiskey, no? If it’s been in the barrel for 20...
Although there are federal laws that discourage you from making Bourbon in your back yard (or up in the holler near your great-uncle's cabin), there is nothing that prevents you from learning the basic concepts of Bourbon making, and...
Thursday, July 10, 7-9 p.m., Varanese. 2106 Frankfort Ave., will host a four-course dinner with dishes paired with beers from Michigan-based Bell’s Brewery. Brewery rep Greg Pilch will be on hand to discuss his choices for the beer pairings.
The...
For his sixth outing at New York City’s culinary mecca, the James Beard House, Thursday, July 10, Anthony Lamas of Seviche–A Latin Restaurant, Bardstown Rd., will create a dinner using sustainably-harvested seafood.
For several years now Lamas has been working...
