Business First blurb on Corbett's An American Place

Your gall bladder is begging for mercy!

Let me get this straight. One of the leaders of defining an American cuisine is Chez Panisse?

No, it's Alice Waters. Chez Panisse is the name of her restaurant. Have you dined there? What do you know about Alice Waters? Did you know that she is credited with being the founder of "California Cuisine"? I think she has had a major role in the development of a true "American" style of cooking.

As for Billy Bob's Bistro, it's no joke. Last time I checked, P.F. Chang's China Bistro wasn't serving steak frites, escargot, pot au feu, or poulet bresse avec pomme de terres.

Yes, I knew I was speaking of the restaurant, not the chef. No, I know nothing about Alice Waters, although I've heard of Chez Panisse. Are you so familiar with fine dining that you cannot recognize the irony of a restaurant with a distinctly French name being a leader in American cuisine? Come on . . . trust me . . . it's funny.

I'm going to call my next place Chez Fernando and serve C

I'm going to call my next place Chez Fernand and serve Cuban food, like Porc Rotie avec yuca de terre, now that's is funny Charles.

Let me get this straight. One of the leaders of defining an American cuisine is Chez Panisse?

No, it's Alice Waters. Chez Panisse is the name of her restaurant. Have you dined there? What do you know about Alice Waters? Did you know that she is credited with being the founder of "California Cuisine"? I think she has had a major role in the development of a true "American" style of cooking.

As for Billy Bob's Bistro, it's no joke. Last time I checked, P.F. Chang's China Bistro wasn't serving steak frites, escargot, pot au feu, or poulet bresse avec pomme de terres.

Yes, I knew I was speaking of the restaurant, not the chef. No, I know nothing about Alice Waters, although I've heard of Chez Panisse. Are you so familiar with fine dining that you cannot recognize the irony of a restaurant with a distinctly French name being a leader in American cuisine? Come on . . . trust me . . . it's funny.

No doubt, and equally ironical is the fact that "American" cuisine is really named for an Italian fellow. It never ends!

I'm going to call my next place Chez Fernand and serve Cuban food, like Porc Rotie avec yuca de terre, now that's is funny Charles.

You can call it Betty's Diner and I'll go there to eat your Cuban food.

Thank you Charles.

Wow, did this strand go somewhere?

I believe Chef Deano is making a statement - Corbett's is an original! All food has influences from people, countries, regional taste, but Dean's intention is to be the best in Louisville.

As for the garden, herbs post, they also grow their own fresh herbs at Equus. Dean's approach is the best product available.

Whatever happened to cuisine minceur? We had healthy French cooking in the 1970's. Where have you gone, Michel Guerrard?

With all due respect to Chef Deano, and I do enjoy his shows on Secrets of Louisville Chefs, what does it mean to be "an American place?" Is there a culinary connotation to this term? Does it have anything to do with the type of food to expect? I'm sure the food will be excellent, but the term "an American place" confuses me. Aren't McDonalds and Cracker Barrel American places?

Having formerly cheffed in the Equus kitchen, Right before former Executive Chef Dave Kuntz's departure Dean had a meeting with the chefs and told us that we were straying from his vision of American Regional food...

At the time we were in fact going through an "Ethnic Fusion" phase.(At the time we were using a lot of Asian, Mediterranean, and Indian influenced ingredients)
Taking a look back at some of the menu items, although very tasty and always well presented, there was a little lack of focus and there were too many odd choices that didn't really have a since of cohesion with some of the Equus classics.

I think that Corbett's is an extension of this idea of using local ingredients and taking it to another level..

It will definitely be THE next big destination restaurant for the city and probably even nationally.