The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine is now available in all the familiar places: Louisville area eateries and food shops, newsstands and online. For the online links to articles, go here:
Hot off the presses: The Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining Magazine has hit the streets
And now, enjoy “Comings & Goings” in its entirety.
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Restaurant Comings & Goings — Spring 2023
Like Charlie Watts playing drums or Ted Williams hitting a baseball, Ron Mikulak made F&D’s quarterly “Comings & Goings” column swing in a seemingly effortless way.
Ron, who died in January at 75, was an educator, journalist and accomplished chef, known to our readers for his “Cooking with Ron” column as well as this very compendium of Louisville area restaurant openings, closings, relocations and transmutations, which he patiently edited, annotated, sprinkled with magic dust, and rendered impeccably authoritative well more than sixty times during the magazine’s history.
In F&D’s forthcoming Summer 2023 issue, which marks our 20th anniversary, Ron’s contributions will be showcased yet again when we present 20 years of “Comings & Goings.”
But Ron would be the first to remind us there’s work to do, because 2023 is kicking off at a frenetic pace. 33 restaurant closings in only three months are nearly half the number (72) experienced all of last year. Concurrently, almost 50% of an encouraging 40 openings being reported here are new locations of existing concepts, restaurant reboots, chain shops or franchises.
It seems that hard decisions are occurring, bets are being hedged, adaptation and opportunism maximized, and risk reduction made a priority. Considering the upheavals facing the Louisville food service during the post-pandemic era, a period of circumspection and retrenchment should come as no real surprise. Let’s dive in.
(Originally published in the Spring 2023 issue of Food & Dining)
RESTAURANT OPENINGS
Leading the list of openings is the much anticipated Lou Lou on Market (812 E. Market St.), where owner Jared Matthews and team have revitalized the former Decca space in NuLu, retaining the Nawlins...Read more
