LEO's Eats with Louisville HotBytes.comAs a veteran of food and wine online since well before Al Gore played his small role in the invention of the Internet, I've been following the development of social media from the start.
But here's something new: Mark down Diamond Café as the first local spot I'm aware of that went viral on Facebook before word-of-mouth spread news of its arrival in Clifton Heights.
Diamond ("D&C Diamond Café," per its business card) quietly replaced Taste of Jamaica a few months ago. When I spotted the café's Facebook fan page the other day, bearing the slogan "fine dining at an affordable price," it had already gathered more than 900 followers.
This is online Marketing with a capital M, and it signaled that Diamond has a canny computer guru working its web action. But would that translate to glory in the food and service department? Only one way to find out.
Diamond Café is handy to Clifton and Crescent Hill dwellers, but mind you, it's not exactly located in a restaurant row: It shares a parking lot with a check-cashing, payday-advance shop that's aggressive about fighting for its share of the small lot. Observe the signs or expect a tow truck to call. It's just down the block from Kroger, across from the four small huts that briefly housed the original Shiraz as it began its leap toward local chaindom.
Walk in the doors, though, and it's a whole different story.
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D&C Diamond Café
2017 Brownsboro Road
895-0070
http://www.diamondcafe.webs.com
Robin Garr's Rating: 85 points
