Wait, weren’t we just discussing the Highlands yesterday? The Deer Park neighborhood is a few blocks east of the long-running, soon-to-be “former” Bristol Bar & Grill.
Bristol Bar & Grill to close in Highland Triangle on March 15
If you’re a reader of a certain age (like me), any mention of 1534 Bardstown Rd. will prompt immediate and vivid memories of ear X-tacy (1985 – 2011), but more recently the space happily was brought back into the indie fold (following a chain Panera occupation) by Ernesto Rivera and his Tacos D’ Amor & More.
Five locations of I Love Tacos rebrand as Tacos D’ Amor & More and two remain the same
As an aside, our departed and sorely missed leader John Carlos White took great joy in tracking local food service additions and subtractions, updating F & D’s restaurant listings and maps via his legendary customized Google spreadsheets, which comprised a fascinating and convoluted gumbo of competing color codes, oblique symbols and internet links.
It was one step removed from Egyptian hieroglyphics, but actually every damn thing I needed for my work was right there — once I learned to speak pidgin spreadsheet.
Now there is one fewer Tacos D’ Amor & More, than there was before, and I’ll leave it at that. My former F & D colleague Michael L. Jones has collected the facts at Louisville Business First.
Verily, the past seven days have felt like seven months.
Tacos D Amor closes Highlands location
…Ernesto Rivera, co-owner of Tacos D Amor & More, said the restaurant at 1534 Bardstown Road closed Monday, Feb. 23. The chain, formerly known as I Love Tacos, opened the Highlands store in early 2021.
The 4,300‑square‑foot space previously housed a Panera Bread, which shuttered in June 2020, and before that the longtime record store Ear X‑tacy, which closed in 2011. The property is owned by Worpla LLC, according to city records.
Riveria said the Bardstown Road storefront will...Read more
