LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
I would rather not over-share about this, and I'm pretty sure you wouldn't want me to do that either; so let's just say that a few years ago, I was invited to participate in a routine diagnostic exam that's widely recommended for Baby Boomers as we slouch through middle age.
I might add that this procedure involves a form of mild anesthesia so soft and fuzzy and warmly relaxing that I'm pretty sure it would bring down SWAT teams of DEA agents in black helicopters if it wasn't administered by medical professionals.
Bear with me here.
As I was coming back up to daylight, swimming blissfully through harp arpeggios and pink clouds, I was apparently babbling, or so my wife claims. She says I merrily relayed semi-conscious tales of peyote and magic mushrooms from my days living in California.
But here's the funny thing: When I returned to consciousness, I had no waking memory of ever having tried peyote, and I don't believe I ever actually did.
Still, when Mary and I and my sister Amy and her husband Paul wandered over to check out the new Mellow Mushroom in St. Matthews the other night, it was like a long, strange trip to someplace I had never been.
We walked in to its dark rooms and sat down under a psychedelic lighted sign that read "Baked" in classic acid-rock letters, casting a strange orange glow throughout the restaurant overflowing with funky '60s style.
What we encountered was some surprisingly good pizza, good music, a fun if noisy scene (every one of its 250 seats appeared to be filled on a Monday night), and a reasonable bill at the end of the evening. A couple of minor service glitches were understandable for a new operation and were handled with grace and skill.
This hip chain, a 37-year-old Atlanta-based property with more than 100 outlets in about 18 states, broke the ice in Louisville this past month with two new shops operated by separate franchisees ...
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/we-ge ... e-mushroom
And in LEO Weekly:
http://leoweekly.com/dining/we-get-mellow-mushroom
Mellow Mushroom
3920 Shelbyville Road
409-6874
http://mellowmushroom.com/stmatthews
Rating: 88