Artemisia

Avalon

Basa Modern Vietnamese

...I sipped a lychee-lime spritzer with my wok-roasted mussels, fragrant with chiles, garlic and basil... More

The Blue Dog Bakery and Café

I lingered over poached free-range eggs on grilled levain bread with prosciutto, spinach and Parmesan cheese as I plotted my... More

Bourbons Bistro

Campbell House Inn

Mary's a good sport, but she stared at me as we pulled up to the Campbell House Inn, a phony-colonial... More

Doc Crow's Southern Smokehouse

Vietnamese brothers Michael and Steven Ton grew up in Texas and cooked... More

El Mundo

Freddie's Restaurant

We passed through Danville, a gorgeous town of movie-set houses that had two stars: Freddie's, a snappy Italian restaurant where... More

Holly Hill Inn

Chef Ouita Michel serves her country ham custard with radish and arugula finger sandwiches—like a Southern high tea.... More

Jack Fry's Restaurant

Jo An

For pristine sushi and other authentic Japanese delicacies (<em>natto</em>, or fermented soybeans, squid, dried-gourd <em>maki</em>, sticky mountain potato), in-the-know Cincinnatians... More

Lilly's

Louisville’s other food-and-art hubs are Bardstown Road—where renowned local chef Kathy Cary cooks modern Southern food at Lilly’s... More

Limestone

Oakroom

'Kentucky fine dining' is chef Jim Gerhardt's clunky name for his fabulously toothsome food. He's dedicated to local ingredients: pawpaw... More

The Old Seelbach Bar

Old Stone Inn

we feasted on eggplant casserole, still the house specialty all these years later.... More

Park Place on Main

Primo

Proof on Main

On a recent night, chef Michael Paley’s bison tend... More