While attending a function at the recently re-launched Crowne Plaza Hotel (formerly the Executive West), Lynda and I stopped in at the Blue Horse Café — a somewhat more upscale restaurant inside the hotel than whatever was in there before the renovation. The restaurant and the hotel itself looks much nicer than the last time [...]
Oriental House has been a staple on the St. Matthews dining landscape for more than 40 years, and unfortunately, the building looks it. The oriental-style woodwork on the outside has a tremendous amount of peeling paint and appears to be suffering from a little dry-rot. But as you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, [...]
After toying with the new laptops at the Apple Store (see the article here), Lynda and I went in search of grub. Neither of us felt like driving far, so we just tooled around to the back of Kohl’s to the Fox & Hound. We had happened onto the place a couple of years ago, [...]
The dining room was very quiet, with soft jazz playing in the background when Lynda arrived 10 minutes later. After she had time to check out the menu — while nibbling on piping-hot, herbed focaccia bread — we both started off with a pair of side salads ($4); a field green salad which had the [...]
Lynda and I both ordered House Salads ($3.75, although our salads may have been cheaper since we ordered them with pizzas) and she ordered an 8-inch Broccoli & Garlic pizza ($8.50) on thin crust. It had broccoli and garlic that had been sautéed in olive oil and baked on a white sauce and covered in [...]
Menu board at Lotsa Pasta. ©2008 Doug Rivers. I am not sure that this really constitutes a restaurant review because the main reason Lynda and I go to Lotsa Pasta is not the restaurant, such as it is, but to buy fresh pasta and sauces to prepare at home from the international food store that [...]
Exterior entrance to Red Robin at Mall St. Matthews. ©2008 Doug Rivers. I guess it was back about January 2007 when Lynda and I were driving out to the Summit on Brownsboro Road, when we discovered that a new Costco and Red Robin restaurant had been built out there on the other side of the [...]
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Graeters Ice Cream on S. Hurstbourne Parkway. ©2008 Doug Rivers. This is a review of a place that serves a product that I can’t eat without taking a pill first to prevent said product making me quite ill. Graeters Ice Cream makes what is probably the best ice cream I have ever eaten; but since [...]
Every few months, Lynda and I get together with some very good friends that I worked with several years ago, to catch up with some pleasant conversation over good food. Coordinating our get-togethers can be a somewhat amusing juggling act, with our varying schedules and commitments, but they always turn out well and in my [...]
After enduring a long Sunday listening to wind gusts of over 70 mph from the remains of Hurricane Ike trying to tear the house apart — no damage here, but a large oak tree came down at the front of our subdivision (see photos here) — Lynda and I decided we wanted pizza. Lynda [...]
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