POLL: Best of the best from HotBytes Top 20!

[Robin Garr]

Can't say I have had too many bad experiences in Louisville and look forward to many more trips.

Glad you enjoyed your visit, Steve. Come back any time!

The votes for Volare surprise me. I've been 4 times and I've never been blown away with the food. It has also been good, just not great. What am I missing?

As Robin said it's a matter of taste, but more. It's rare to find an Italian, highly rated Michelin restaurant for example. I believe Mario Batali stated he was trying to create the first three star Italian restaurant with Babbo in New York City.

It's not cutting-edge cuisine but it is well executed dishes in everything they do along with outstanding service and ambiance. For me it's tops because I could dine there every night more so than at the many other outstanding restaurants in Louisville. In terms of "if I could only dine at one restaurant for my last meal", then, I would probably have voted for Seviche.

[Robin Garr]

Last call!

Since there is a lot of discussion of Volare, I'm adding a comment.

I think the food is the finest Italian in the city, and the service is wonderful. I just find it hard to vote for a "best of the best" when with the live music playing (and often when it isn't!) we find it too loud to have a conversation at the table.

For food alone there are several options on the list that I could vote for, and including service the list is still rather long, but I went down to also having a quiet, relaxing ambience and voted for Corbett's!

As was said in the beginning, it all depends on my mood that night, as sometimes we're looking for a lively and/or noisy atmosphere, but I'm sticking with my vote.