LEO's Eats with Louisville HotBytes.com“Five-second rule! Five-second rule!”
It didn’t matter whether I was decked out in fancy all-weather wool slacks on a Thursday evening or well-worn jeans for a Tuesday lunch: No matter the fabric, no matter how I folded and knotted the thing, the slick, slippery burgundy polyester napkin would not stay on my lap.
I must have invoked the five-second rule a dozen times or more, grumbling every time I plucked my fallen napkin from the floor, during a couple of recent meals at New Albany’s otherwise delightful Windsor Restaurant and Garden.
Come to think about it, the irritating napkin slide was just about the only nit I could find to pick with this splendid eatery, a worthy successor to the late and still lamented Bistro New Albany.
Young co-chefs Justin McMillen and Cory Cuff were barely old enough to legally sample their own wine list when the classy dining room and bar, with its lovable New Orleans-style patio, reopened in the old New Albany Inn last year.
Their style belies their age, with a sophisticated and consistently well-prepared evening menu and a fine, simpler set of soup, salad and sandwiches at the noonday hour.
It’s well worth the trip, even for Hoosier-wary Kentuckians. We picked up our pal Lucinda in St. Matthews and shot across I-71 and I-64 and over the Sherman Minton Bridge, pulling up to a prime parking place in front of the Windsor in 15 minutes, maybe a little less. Heck, it can take longer to get to Springhurst!
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The Windsor Restaurant and Garden
148 E. Market St.
New Albany, Ind.
(812) 944-9688
http://www.thewindsorrestaurant.com
Rating: 87 points