Voice-Tribune review by Robin Garr

Who doesn't like eating locally grown food? It's fresh, it's healthy, it's more or less off the industrial agri-business grid, and maybe best of all, it tastes really, really good.
Dining "locavore" is trendy, too, if being in on the hippest big thing is important to you. But allow me to suggest that there's something more important: Dining locally supports your local farmer. It gives you the opportunity to meet the people who grow your food face-to-face, to talk to them, to learn more about what they grow that feeds you. Says the Harvest website, "The food is ... a celebration of seasonality, so that you will never get a hard red-colored tomato or an asparagus in October,"
You'll also learn that farm produce is strictly seasonal. Like our grandparants and their forbears, once you embrace the local lifestyle, you'll eat lettuce and spinach in the spring, peaches from June through August; tomatoes from July into early autumn; potatoes and root vegetables through the winter. Shun food that travel miles to reach your larder and you'll find the calendar shapes your diet plan in ways you never imagined. But by eating in season you'll also be treating yourself to the splendor of perfectly fresh fare that didn't have to be doused in chemicals, bred for transportation and not for taste, or artificially ripened after weeks in transit.
This, indeed, is the model behind Louisville's growing cadre of farm-to-table restaurants. And while many of them are fine, I'd argue that there's none better than Harvest in NuLu, now the culinary home of farmer Ivor Chodkowski, whose Jefferson County farm, Family Field Days Farm, has long been one of the most popular spots at the Bardstown Road Farmers' Market on Saturday mornings.
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes.com:
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Harvest Restaurant
624 E. Market St.
384-9090
http://www.harvestlouisville.com