LEO's Eats with Louisville HotBytes.com(LEO photo by Ron Jasin)
Early in August, Chef Amber McCool announced “a new path” for the popular Patron Restaurant, involving a move to a still-undisclosed location at an uncertain time. In the meantime, the restaurant at the corner of Frankfort Avenue and Cannons Lane would continue catering and wholesale operations as well as “calendared events.”
That calendar, it seems, has been full, with food and music events on Wednesdays (Kim Sorise’s “Wax on Wednesdays,” with 12-inch LPs and 12-inch pizzas), many Fridays (“Burger Night” with music, burgers and brews), and a tasty menu-based brunch on Saturdays and Sundays.
My wife and I didn’t really have food in mind when we drove past the Patron early on a recent Sunday afternoon, but the sight of a jammed parking lot lured us in. Sure enough, the place was slammed with happy brunchers, but it took a minute or two for us to be seated.
The dining room is small, a longish rectangle two tables wide, with a few simple art works on dark green walls under an industrial-style ceiling painted such a dark blue that it’s almost black.
Ice water comes in handsome tumblers resembling the trendy, stemless Riedel “O” glasses, each garnished with a cool cucumber slice. Black cloth napkins are held with small radiator hose clamps as napkin rings.
Brunch is served from a menu, not an all-you-can-eat buffet. It offers more than a dozen items, ranging from $7 (for eggs any style or a yellow-watermelon salad) to $15 (for crab and eggs or prosciutto angelhair pasta). A “veggie scramble” with bell peppers, onions, squash, mozzarella and tomato is market rate. A couple of Latino-style goodies include huevos rancheros ($13) and a Foxhollow beef tostada ($11). Biscuits and gravy or a fried-egg sandwich with Applewood smoked bacon both go for $10.
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The Patron Restaurant
3400 Frankfort Ave.
896-1661
http://www.thepatron.org
Robin Garr’s brunch rating: 88 points
