LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
Center-cut beef filet (6-ounce) with Bearnaise sauce at The Blackstone Grille.
Let’s see … Mexican, Mayan, Venezuelan, Nigerian, soul food, Indian. What culinary genre haven’t I tried lately? Oh, wait, how about some good, old-school American food?
My first thought upon this realization was negatory: Nah. Let’s face it, the heritage food of our northern European forbears isn’t known for flavor, spice, aromatics and excitement, all the good things about the rest of the world’s comfort foods that we sum up dismissively as “ethnic.”
And it’s no secret that I love “ethnic” food so hard. But all this is good reason for a recalibration, and one fine place to go for such a gastronomic reboot is The Blackstone Grille in Prospect, where genial restaurateurs Rick and Cathy Dissell have settled in for close to a decade now.
They’ve developed a loyal following through several East End iterations since the 1980s, and I’m pretty sure that a lot of folks who enjoyed the initial Rick’s in Chenoweth Square and all its successors are still showing up at this Prospect Point dining room. Heck, I’m one of them.
Like all its predecessors, The Blackstone Grille is comfortable, upscale in mood but not at all stuffy, an amiable environment with simple decor in a dark room with well-lighted tables, a sociable bar and comfortable dining room. Undraped wooden tables are furnished with heavy side chairs and set with quality flatware rolled in soft white cloth napkins.
Blackstone is open for dinner only, daily except Sunday, and its American-style menu doesn’t contain much that would surprise a Louisville-based Marty McFly, zapped forward from the city’s culinary past, save perhaps for its estimable use of Kentucky Proud meats and produce largely sourced from regional farms. Not that there’s anything wrong with that. ...
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The Blackstone Grille
9521A US 42
228-6962
http://theblackstonegrille.com
https://facebook.com/theblackstonegrille
Robin Garr’s rating: 84 points
