Epicurious Louisville

Louisville Kentucky is usually renowned for Bourbon, horse racing, and hillbillies. Well I'm no barefoot teenage bride, but I think Louisville should be recognized as a mecca of amazing eats, a veritable undiscovered treasure trove of quirky cafes, upper cut echelon and everything in between.
For everything from sushi to satire, I'm your girl.
Meat, please come back, I miss you so much!!! Love,  E

Meat, please come back, I miss you so much!!!

Love, 

E

curlyjules asked: We *loved* Oishii Sushi!! My favorite thing I got was the crab nigiri!! And the rolls were ginormous! We had a delectable feast. So glad we tried it out! :-) :-)

I am so glad you did too! It’s so hard going back to a regular sushi place after you’ve had Oishii. Kind of like if your first car was a monster truck and then you had to go back to driving little roasters. 

Last night was amazing and I felt like a beauty queen. I am constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to have so many wonderful women in my life; my Teacup, Kathleen, my sisters, the Babe Squad, Danielle. Such supporting and endearing friends. Such a perfect evening. 

Last night was amazing and I felt like a beauty queen. I am constantly reminded of how fortunate I am to have so many wonderful women in my life; my Teacup, Kathleen, my sisters, the Babe Squad, Danielle. Such supporting and endearing friends. Such a perfect evening. 

This was our first date after he got back from Afghanistan. It was weird, and exciting, and a little scary. I wanted to show him all the placed I’d discovered while he was away, but he was still a little twitchy (he had a pretty bad deployment) and the crowd wasn’t his favorite. It was so good to just be together again, to get back into the way we were, or the new way we would become. 

Hammerhead’s was a great place to start. We have always bonded over food and our mutual love (obsession?) with it. Those fried mushrooms and my favorite heart attack hamburger (chorizo burger, add pork belly and an egg and that amazing sundried tomato aioli) were the perfect beginning. 

We are so much better now than we were even when he left. It took us months to get back into the swing of things, but we are back, baby. I can’t wait to marry him on May 31.

diskofthedamned: What I’m drinking now. I’m not a bourbon connoisseur, but I think this is the best bourbon I’ve tasted.  This is a very smooth drinking whiskey.  This is the 10 year small batch bourbon, I think I paid around $40 for this bottle.

diskofthedamned:

What I’m drinking now.

I’m not a bourbon connoisseur, but I think this is the best bourbon I’ve tasted.  This is a very smooth drinking whiskey.  This is the 10 year small batch bourbon, I think I paid around $40 for this bottle.

linksdrinks:

Working through a backlog here. Let’s see…

First, a Porteño:

1 oz bourbon
1/2 oz Fernet Branca
1/2 oz maraschino liqueur
1/2 oz simple syrup
1/2 oz lime juice

Shake with ice and strain into chilled little glass — salud.

and

Spanish Harlem

1 1/2 oz tequila (lacking añejo, I used reposado)
1 oz sweet vermouth
2 dashes angostura bitters
rinse (1/4 teaspoon) maraschino liqueur

Stir with ice and strain into a chilled glass — that’s just one regular twist in there, but do you like the parallax effect from the glass?

curlyjules asked: Guess which restaurant my best friend and I decided to go to for our last hurrah before she leaves town again? Oishii Sushi!! Neither of us have ever been there before, but we both are sushi fans!

OH MY GOSH YOU HAVE TO TELL ME HOW YOU LIKE IT! We got a gift card there for Christmas and spent all of it but like two dollars. So technically we still have some money to spend there, but it’s an ineffectual little two dollars…anyways. SO delicious! Service can be a little slow, but so worth it.

darkmatter333 asked: Cool blog, it is nice to see Louisville people on tumblr:D Keep up the good work!!!

thank you! Always nice to hear some encouraging words!