LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
I have never quite understood why Lower Brownsboro Road, an avenue that traverses trendy Clifton and historic Crescent Hill on its way out to classy Mockingbird Valley, is punctuated with so many gritty and downscale shopping strips that confer a distinctly "urban" tone. But it's a fact: Drive down the strip and count the tiny bottle shops, check-cashing stores, junk shops, gas station-convenience shops, a 24-hour diner and even a supermarket so widely, if unjustly, known as "Dirty" Kroger that even former Louisville mayor Dave Armstrong once uttered the term to me in an on-the-record interview.
It should be no surprise, then, that there's been a quick series of short-lived eateries in the Lower Brownsboro restaurant space that shares a small parking lot with an advance payday loan shop that guards its parking spaces with dire threats of immediate towing. A Middle Eastern spot, a Jamaican eatery, an excellent soul food shop - some of them have been quite good, but I don't see how the grim surroundings can help.
The latest tenant, however, is worth checking out. If friendly, smiling service, appealing Japanese-Korean fare and, on the day of our visit, impeccably fresh sushi count for anything, then maybe I
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/it%E2 ... sushi-spot
And in LEO Weekly:
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/it%E2 ... sushi-spot
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2017 Brownsboro Road
893-8226
Rating: 84

