Thursday, March 28, 2024

Get in the Derby spirit: create a burger!

The Derby prep races are under way. Futures betting has started.  The C-J has run a story about Derby hats—men's hats. And now, the third annual Derby Burger Challenge! The Kentucky Beef Council, always looking...

DiRoNA Conference in October another feather in cap of Louisville food scene

Chefs and restaurateurs from the U.S., Canada and Mexico will meet in a Distinguished Restaurants of North America conference Oct. 5-8 at the Brown Hotel. DiRoNA was founded in 1990 to raise dining standards and...

Lee and Cary make James Beard Foundation’s regional lists again

The annual nominations for James Beard awards have been announced, and local chefs Edward Lee, of 610 Magnolia and Milkwood, and Kathy Cary of Lilly's, have again been nominated as semi-finalists for Best Chef...

Louisville Chefs bring home more accolades.

“Best Chefs America Presents: The American South,” the first in a series of regional guides to American cuisine, has recognized a number of Louisville chefs. Included in 2014 edition are Bobby Benjamin, Adam Burress, Kathy...

Chef Brings a Taste of Louisville to Olympics in Sochi

It's a good thing Derby Day is still about 2 1/2 months away.  That will give David Danielson, executive chef for Levy Restaurants at Churchill Downs, some time to decompress from cooking at the...

StarChefs’ praise for area’s Rising Stars is great for Louisville’s culinary scene

With all the “best of” lists published these days, some might ignore StarChefs singling out Kentucky and Tennessee for its Rising Star Awards in 2014. They shouldn’t. It’s easily one of the best-vetted best-of compilations...

StarChefs.com picks 2014 Kentucky-Tennessee Rising Stars

StarChefs.com, an online magazine for culinary insiders, has announced its 2014 Kentucky-Tennessee Rising Stars Awards, honoring up-and-coming chefs and culinary professionals who represent the vanguard of the contemporary American dining scene. This is a big...

Bourbon Review picks top 55 bourbon bars, many in Louisville

Shocker, right? A bunch of bourbon bars in the Ville are on the list of The Bourbon Review’s Top 55 Bourbon Bars list. We know ours are the bourbon bomb! But if you’re like us,...

Louisville’s own Damaris Phillips is Food Network ‘Next Star’

Damaris Phillips, a culinary arts instructor at Jefferson Community and Technical College, is the Next Food Network Star. The competition, which pits multiple contestants against each other to win a Food Network series of their...

USA Today: Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail makes list of ’10 amazing road trips’

OK, so we already knew this, but it’s always nice to see the out-of-towners acknowledge it: Kentucky’s Bourbon Trail landed on USA Today’s list of 10 amazing road trips. The story, which ran in late...