carla griffin wrote: I can remember...
The Embassy Room (Club?)
The Essex House
Hoe Kow
Howard Johnsons
maybe a couple of hotel restaurants
carla griffin wrote:Oh yeah I did forget Hasenours! It just seems like no one was interested in dining out as a recreation until the salad bar came along. Dupont Sq came around with Steak & Ale (1972 maybe January or February), Victoria Station (1972 fall), and Benningans all at about the same time (1974 ?) Flaherty's III (not sure on the year for that and there was almost no dining there. It WAS a meat market however ) For then, Dupont was the dining out mecca of the city.
Gawd I feel old.
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Jeffrey D. wrote:Bauer's
Pine Room (did it have food?)
Old House
Later, Normandy and Hearthstone
Kunz's
Casa Grisanti
Cunningham's
Min's Steak House (now Pat's)
The restaurant at the Executive Inn (Kurt Seigert (sp?) and his strolling strings)
Bill Boland's
And places not usually thought of: Country clubs; somewhat anachronistic now, but a big source of family dining with a drink for many years in the 70's and much, much earlier.
carla griffin wrote:I was going to quesion the age of Casa Grisanti but you were right on Jeffery, 1959 was their birth year. I had no idea.
carla griffin wrote:He really did revolutionize dining in America. If you're under 30 it may be hard to imagine what dining out in Louisville during the 60s and early 70s was like. There were bars and there were a few restaurants but you could count on 1 hand the number of restaurants where you could take the family to dine AND get a whisky sour (or some cocktail). Steak and Ale was one of the first.
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