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What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Robin Garr » Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:53 am

Let's take a trip down Memory Lane: Tell us about your favorite restaurant that's no longer around, and why it was so special.
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by JustinHammond » Tue Sep 28, 2021 9:29 am

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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Mike D » Tue Sep 28, 2021 10:46 am

Baxter Station. We were regulars there. The bartenders often drew two glasses of our favorite beer (Rogue Dead Guy) when they saw us come in the door. We got to know a number of the folks who worked there on a personal level. Really miss them.
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Michele Janosek » Tue Sep 28, 2021 11:02 am

The loss of Palermo Viejo still makes me sad every time we pass by. Baxter Station too :( So many great memories at both places!
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Mike L » Tue Sep 28, 2021 12:26 pm

Lentini's immediately comes to mind, before it was purchased. I loved the atmosphere, their pasta dishes, and they had my favorite dessert, a 3 layer chocolate cake where 2 of the layers were white and chocolate mousse.
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by BevP » Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:10 pm

The Blind Pig loved just about anything I had there but my favorite was the Oyster fritter apps.
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Robin Garr » Tue Sep 28, 2021 1:57 pm

Thanks for all the good ones so far! I agree with all of them. Thanks for reminding me about the Blind Pig, Bev!
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Carla G » Tue Sep 28, 2021 3:05 pm

Dietrich’s.
The atmosphere. The walls that opened to Frankfort Ave. Staff members that were bright and funny. And a vodka cream sauce pasta with three different caviars. (Heavy sigh)
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Robert Carnighan » Tue Sep 28, 2021 4:55 pm

The early Pine Room with Bill, Kitty and, of course, Mabel in the late fifties. A little hard to get to; the Watterson was only finished to Bardstown Road.
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Jessica H » Tue Sep 28, 2021 5:03 pm

I still desperately miss Red Pepper Chinese on Lower Brownsboro.

Everything I ate there was delicious, but I particularly miss the Garlic Tofu with Spinach.
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Andrew Mellman » Tue Sep 28, 2021 5:47 pm

Jessica H wrote:I still desperately miss Red Pepper Chinese on Lower Brownsboro.
Everything I ate there was delicious, but I particularly miss the Garlic Tofu with Spinach.


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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Mike L » Tue Sep 28, 2021 5:53 pm

Ray Parella's, another old school Italian restaurant.
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Robin Garr » Tue Sep 28, 2021 8:17 pm

Great stuff! We're getting quite a list here. Keep 'em coming, folks!
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Alexis Rich » Wed Sep 29, 2021 5:41 am

Oddly enough, the place that I miss at least once a month is Emperor of China. Their food was just WAY better than anything in town. Hot and sour soup, Szechuan shrimp, and mu shu anything with real pancakes (no tortillas). They also made a sizzling rice soup served table side that I miss dearly.

It’s still around but I miss it’s old iteration-Tumbleweed. I want 1995’s Tumbleweed back.
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Re: What's your favorite restaurant no longer around?

by Jeff Cavanaugh » Wed Sep 29, 2021 10:12 am

Not terribly long gone, but I miss Eiderdown. Great beer program, excellent German-American-Southern food. The beer cheese was always so, so good.
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