LEO's Eats with LouisvilleHotBytesby Kevin Gibson. Photo by Ron Jasin
By night, Zanzabar is a hipster hangout, a music venue that attracts local and touring artists alike, and it offers a varied dinner and late-night menu, along with a pretty fair beer list. By day, Zanzabar is a mild-mannered purveyor of boxed lunches and "the lunch line" - a one-price, one-stop, cafeteria-style alter-identity that offers all-American, down-home goodness at a decent price.
Is it just a coincidence that there is a Batman comic book lurking behind the horseshoe-shaped bar?
Zanzabar is housed in an 80-year-old Germantown landmark, which Baby Boomers knew as the Zanzibar (with an "i" not an "a," aka "Z-bar"), and more recent generations as Nord's Brown Bag. Refurbished and stripped of architectural accretions to reveal its historic white-tile "Z" facade, Zanzabar recently took on executive chef Jack Tapp, once chef at the late Brasserie Deitrich. This unlikely balance of upscale flair with tried and true seems to be working. ...
Zanzabar
2100 S. Preston St.
635-9227
http://www.zanzabarlouisville.com
Food rating: 84
Read the full column in LEO:
http://leoweekly.com/dining/unmasking-t ... s-zanzabar
and on LouisvilleHotBytes:
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/unmas ... f-zanzabar