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Pizza Lupo
1540 Frankfort Avenue
Review: Pizza Lupo Is Tops
And Thats Not All
Recommended: [The funghi pizza] was one of the best pizzas Ive met recently. [...] The mushrooms oyster mushrooms, I believe were earthy, in a good way, and sang the melody line of this culinary chorus. The combination of cheeses worked nicely, too, making a thick and much more fascinating topping than just plain mozzarella. Tiny amber puddles of olive oil and a few crinkly crisp basil leaves added subtle complexity.
Photo by Robin Garr
Alley Cat Cafe
11804 Shelbyville Road
Review: Alley Cat Cafe Has No Cats, Only Great Cheap Eats
Recommended: A hot roast beef sandwich ($9.49 on the regular menu, $7.99 on the half-and-half special) piled several evenly-sliced pieces of warm roast beef with crisply seared dark-brown edges and a single slice of melted provolone on a standard hoagie roll. A small tub of salty beef bouillon came alongside for optional dipping.
Photo by Robin Garr
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Barn8 Restaurant
10500 W. U.S. Highway 42, Goshen
Review: Barn 8 Delivers Culinary Treats In A Delightful Farm Setting
Recommended: We started with a shared heirloom tomato tartine appetizer ($14), a daily special too attractive to resist. This seasonal chefs whim started with a thick slice of house-made sourdough drizzled with olive oil and painted with intensely garlicky Lebanese-style toum sauce, then loaded with perfectly ripe, dark reddish-purple tomato wedges garnished with tiny basil, mint and beet-leaf microgreens. It was just about perfect, and a shake of salt on the tomatoes added the final touch.
Photo by Robin Garr
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Big Bad Breakfast
984 Barret Avenue
Review: Big Bad Breakfast Delivers A Bountiful Meal In Former Lynns Paradise Cafe Spot
Recommended: The Huevos Rancheros grit bowl ($13.50) caught my eye. Two perfectly football-shaped soft eggs showed some serious poaching skills from the kitchen. They were built into a fancy preparation that hinted at the flavors of Mexico with a spiciness that didnt whack your taste buds with hellish fire.
Photo by Carolyn Brown
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Chikn & Mi
1765 Mellwood Avenue
Review:
Recommended: A subtly flavored palette to display your choice of sauces, Chik'n & Mi's Laotian spiced fried chicken is so crisply fried that the skin cracks pleasantly when you bite down.
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Common Haus Hall
134 Spring St., Jeffersonville, IN
Review: Bavarian-Inspired Common Haus Hall, A Great New Arrival
Recommended: Schnitzel a classic dish of Germany, Austria and Switzerland is a slab of meat pounded tender and cloaked in a bound fried coating. Common Haus makes a splendid version using pork with six sauce options, all $16.50.Our Jaeger (hunter) style schnitzel had been pounded to about 1/3-inch thick, but it was huge. Served on quality brötchen (small bread), the schnitzel was three times as big as the bun. The well-made breading boosted the flavor with a piquant sweet-sour note. A dollop of Jaeger sauce, a rich brown onion and mushroom gravy with a rich flavor married well with the schnitzel.
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Eden & Kissi
Review:
3914 Bardstown Road
Recommended: The wings were huge, charred dark brown with black spots, and had lots of meat. We chose the smoky option and got a blast of char and smoke before biting through the crisp skin to reveal perfectly cooked tender but not dry meat.
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Goodfellas Pizzeria
642 Baxter Ave.
Review: Goodfellas Slings Proper New York City-Style Pizza On Baxter Avenue
Recommended: A slice adorned with strips of green pepper and purple onion caught my eye, and I didnt have any complaints about its flavor either. In proper New York City style, these slices are long and flexible, making it easy to fold your slice and walk away.
Photo by Robin Garr
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Haucks Corner
1000 Goss Avenue
Review: The Local Landmark Haucks Corner Returns: Some Thoughts On The New Menu
Recommended: Who ever heard of a taco built with vegan soy-rizo and potatoes ($11.95)? Not me! I had to try this strange fusion, though, and I wasnt sorry. The chewy crinkle-cut fries were a bit odd, but the fiery crumbled meatless chorizo was excellent, and garnishes of avocado cream, chipotle aioli and pickled red onions kicked it up another notch. Two tacos were wrapped in doubled corn tortillas that had been fried to a crisp, chewy texture.
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Heart & Soy
1216 Bardstown Road
Review:
Recommended: Sunny bright yellow Singapore noodles ($9.90) breathed a gently spicy, almost smoky aroma that signaled the presence of turmeric and curry flavors. It was pleasantly hot enough to get your taste buds attention but not at all fiery. Plenty of thin, tender rice noodles were matched with strips of carrot and onion and pressed, marinated and fried tofu, all cut into long, thin strips, plus chopped cabbage and scallions to complete a flavor symphony.
Photo by Robin Garr
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Hyderabad House
12412 Shelbyville Road
Review: Biryani Is A Spicy Hot Specialty With 35 Variations At Middletowns Hyderabad House
Recommended: I must have seen a dozen biryanis of various forms being rushed to tables. It really is the specialty here, especially on weekends. They all look similar: A mountain of tricolored basmati plain white, turmeric yellow and saffron orange piled on a square white porcelain plate, with a few small purple eggplants peeking out the top, with several more layered inside, and a fiery hot-sweet sauce poured over. Strips of raw red onion and lots of chopped cilantro were strewn on top, with a single lime wedge in the corner.
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Impellizzeris Pizza at Holiday Manor
4933 Brownsboro Road
Review: For A Pizza Baked In Louisville History, Head To Impellizzeris
Recommended: A 10-inch veggie pizza ($14.99), one of Bennies originals, was excellent. It was well imagined and carefully executed, with nine veggies mushrooms, onions, roasted red peppers, green peppers, banana peppers, oven-roasted tomatoes, baby spinach, kalamata and green olives. The veggies worked and played nicely together in texture and flavor. They were piled almost all the way to the edge of its half-inch crust, atop appropriately scanty, tangy tomato sauce and appropriately generous stretchy mozzarella.
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Jasmine Chinese Cuisine
13825 English Villa Drive
Review: For A Top-Notch Sichuanese Meal, Go To Jasmine
Recommended: Another characteristic Sichuanese dish is mapo tofu ($10.99), a dish that purportedly originated in Chengdu, Sichuan, in the 19th century and got its name literally pock-marked grandmothers tofu from the restaurateurs wrinkled face and the similar dots of red chile flakes and black beans against snow-white tofu. That description fits Jasmines version, which cloaked about 16 inch-square cubes of tender silken tofu in a glossy, cornstarch-thickened sauce scented with Sichuan pepper and loaded with spicy chiles, tiny black beans and strips of green onion.
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La Cocina De Mamá
2809 Hurstbourne Lane
Review: A Craving for Enchiladas Lures us to La Cocina De Mamá in Louisvilles East End
Recommended: A yen for chocolate got in the way and I summoned the mole enchiladas, choosing the cheese enchilada option; its also available with pork, chicken or beef. The thick wave of red chile and dark chocolate sauce that flowed over my three small cheese enchiladas enhanced their flavor, as did the generous pile of grated cotija cheese that formed a snowdrift on top. The rolled tortillas hidden within were tender and light, easy to cut through and pick up a sample of all the flavors in every bite. The mole was distinctly sweet, almost as if it were made with semisweet chocolate rather than the traditional bitter chocolate, but I had no complaints.
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Maya Bagel Express
3029 Poplar Level Road
Review: Please, Sir, May I Have Smør? And A Maya Bagel Too?
Recommended: The bagel with cream cheese ($4.50) was excellent. A fine onion bagel was generously spread with soft cheese, and that simple approach was plenty to make me happy.
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Melt 502
6318 Bardstown Road
Review: The Creativity Shines At Louisville Sandwich Shop Melt 502
Recommended: Finally, the godmother, the LaBelle [not pictured.] The ground beef that made up the bulk of the filling was seasoned and provided little resistance to the bite; it almost seemed to melt. But its tenderness didnt mean weakness. It held together after a bite rather than its ingredients tumbling out onto the bar. Accentuated by sweet caramelized onions not simply grilled, as some might expect the melt wouldve been worthy of an encore. As I sat back in my seat, I wondered how often customers came in prepared to have dessert.
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MozzaPi
12102 La Grange Road
Review: MozzaPis Pizza Remains Near And Dear To My Heart
Recommended: I made a healthy choice with MozzaPis spinach and ricotta pizza ($14). A beautiful crust, golden and covered with leopard spots from the oven, was coated with just enough spicy, fresh-made tomato sauce and red-pepper flakes, topped with a thick blanket of fresh baby spinach, and finished with rounds of mozzarella and creamy ricotta cheese. The spinach didnt wilt, so it was almost like a spinach salad pizza with cheese.
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Oriental House
4302 Shelbyville Road
Review: Oriental House Returns
And Is Just As Good As Ever
Recommended: One of our favorite dishes here is a simple but memorable plate of roasted duck with steamed rice. A sizable duck thigh quarter had been coated with hoisin sauce and anise-scented five-spice and roasted to a dark mahogany color, then chopped crosswise into chunks. They were served with a bit of lettuce that had been quickly softened in duck broth, with a generous scoop of medium-grain white rice. The skin was roasted and firm, not crackling crisp, with a thick layer of juicy fat cloaking rich, succulent, tender dark duck meat.
Photo by Robin Garr
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Señora Arepa
721 E. Market St.
Review: Señora Arepa Serves Delicious Venezuelan Street Food In Louisville
Recommended: I meant to order the caprezolana salad ($12.99) but got the less pricey caprezolana arepa ($9.99) instead. Fine by me! More arepa, less veggies. Its a Venezuelan take on the classic Italian caprese salad, with the traditional tomatoes (a fresh slice and some roasted cherry tomatoes, too), cheese (creamy Venezuelan queso de mano), pesto in lieu of fresh basil, as well as romaine and arugula. All this stuffed into a crispy, subtly corn-flavored arepa made it more than a mouthful.
Photo by Robin Garr
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Simply Mediterranean
2900 Brownsboro Road
Review: Review: Louisvilles Mediterranean Restaurants Arent The Same. This One Brings Lebanese Flavor To The City
Recommended: Im always up for baba ghanooj, and this place does it right, fire-roasting eggplant before mashing it with tahini, lemon and olive oil. The version here is chopped and mashed but not blended smooth, with tender pitas on the side.
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