LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
Last week when we got back from a summer trip to Florida’s Space Coast, it took me about 25 minutes to drive home from the airport to Crescent Hill in rush-hour traffic. The week before that, when we drove out to Westport General Store for dinner, the scenic trip required only about five minutes more.
This mere half-hour trek through the meadows, farms, forests and tract mansions of northern Oldham County is well worth it — the reward at the end of the road is an exceptional meal that matches, or surpasses, just about anything you’d find in the city.
Chef David Clancy is back at the helm, and that’s good news. The combination of Clancy’s kitchen crew with Westport’s amiable proprietor, Will Crawford, makes this a destination that would be worth an even longer trip.
Westport bustled in its early years, when it was a steamboat stop upriver from Louisville, and Westport General Store still has a bit of the look and feel of a rural village’s favorite gathering place, although there’s a stylish bistro overlay. Local bands and musical groups often perform here. “Like” its Facebook page (on.fb.me/westportgen) to keep up.
Crawford describes the restaurant’s culinary style as “upscale Southern cuisine,” and that’s fair; props also to his commitment to use local produce, meats and poultry to support his community and local farmers whenever possible.
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/westp ... -road-trip
And in LEO Weekly:
http://leoweekly.com/dining/westport-ge ... -road-trip
Westport General Store
7008 Highway 524
222-4626
http://www.westportgeneralstore.com
Rating: 87