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LEO's Eat 'n' Blog with Louisville HotBytes
(Ballyhoo's Baja Grill, Just Fresh)
Bardstown Road has been established as Louisville's primary "restaurant row" for so long now that things seem to have achieved a sort of natural balance: If one eatery closes, chances are something similar will be along soon to fill its niche.
So, when the short-lived <b>Baja Fresh</b> closed after only a few months of vending fast-food-style fresh burritos out of a shiny new glass building, and a similarly ephemeral branch of <b>Bazo's</b> came and went from the old building that once housed <b>Jupiter Café</b> and is now home to <b>Nio's</b>, no one really expected that Bardstown would be long bereft of fish tacos. Or, for that matter, that <b>Qdoba</b> and <b>La Bamba</b> would dominate the boulevard's burrito market without challenge.
Sure enough, now comes <b>Ballyhoo's Baja Grill</b>, a new spot that looks a lot like a franchised chain operation but that's actually only the smallest of chains, being the third property of a Nashville-based outfit whose eateries at the other end of the old L&N line bear the trademark name "Chile Burrito Co."
Ballyhoo's brings back the fish taco with a bang, producing a model that's as good as I ever ate, and much more that's good, too.
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