Voice-Tribune review by Robin Garr
Ever since North End Cafe opened in Clifton nearly a decade ago, the name of the place seemed a little odd to me. When I grew up in Louisville, we sorted our town into East End, South End and West End, and back in those Baby Boom days of Elvis, tail fins and ducktails, those were the urban ends of the city, not the suburbs. There was not much out there but farms, as far as we knew.
So the arrival in 2003 of this comfortable, casual bistro in Clifton made little geographical sense to me. What’s a North End? Someplace over in Indiana? Nope, it’s right there on lower Frankfort Avenue, inner end of what we used to call the East End.
But to be honest, it didn’t really matter. North End Cafe quickly developed into one of the city’s popular spots. And now there are two. Since just before Christmas there’s been a second North End, also inscrutably located in what we also used to call the East End, in the former home of Club Grotto on Bardstown Road. North End has done an excellent job of making it over into a kissin’ cousin to the renovated Clifton shotgun houses that comprise the original Cafe.
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North End Café
2116 Bardstown Road
690-4161
http://www.northendcafe.com
(Another location, 1722 Frankfort Ave., 896-8770.)