LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
“Farm-to-table,” the buzz term for restaurants that seek out and celebrate the health and humane stewardship of local produce, meat and poultry, is one of the hottest trends on the local culinary scene. From Mozz on down to Toast, Harvest, Wiltshire, Garage Bar, La Coop, Taco Punk, Decca, Mayan Cafe and Rye, you needn’t walk any farther than you can throw a Weisenberger Mill grits cake to find farm-to-table cuisine in trendy NuLu.But one of the best of the genre, surprisingly, is almost hidden out in the leafy environs of suburban Anchorage, where Anchorage Café assembles an impressive collection of locavore small plates. It’s well worth the trip, but it’s surprisingly easy to miss: The little café is overshadowed by the bustling Village Anchor Pub and Grill, and when you enter the smallish, two-story venue (a new building made to look like an old one) from the upper (Park Road) side, you’re likely to look around and think you’ve entered a quaint little neighborhood espresso-and-pastry takeout shop.
And that’s pretty much all it was, at first, until last autumn, when Chef Andy Meyers (and sidekick Ryan Rogers, who came from Zanzabar and has moved on to New Albany’s new Feast BBQ) worked with owners Bruce and Courtney Lake to kick up the menu and feature the region’s agricultural resources, taking advantage of the downstairs section as a small dining room.
Anchorage Café is open for lunch daily but for dinner only Thursdays through Saturdays. It’s worth scheduling your visit for one of those evenings when Myers and his sous chef, Paul Skulas, bring the farm to the table full-bore. The menu changes frequently, reflecting what’s ripe and good as the seasons change, but it typically features about 10 small (but not tiny) plates attractively priced at $10 or less.
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/farm- ... orage-cafe
And in LEO Weekly:
http://leoweekly.com/dining/farm-table- ... -caf%C3%A9
Anchorage Café
11505 Park Road
708-1880
www.theanchoragecafe.com
Rating: 86
