Bourbon Country.
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26 places
Rooms you can walk into, ranked the way I would send you.
Key: what the badges mean
★ Michelin star · Bib Bib Gourmand · Green ★ Michelin Green Star · Michelin in the Michelin guide, no distinction · J Jeff's own note · Jeff ★★★★☆ 2019 his own rating out of five, and the year he gave it · new the venue itself opened recently · just added recently added to Jeff's list, whatever its age · 2◆ independent chef/industry recommendations · ! hygiene caution in force · ? no current public hygiene record, not a caution · keep walking Jeff has been and would walk past it · the line under a name says when to go: Destination (plan around it) / Solid (the dependable send) / Listed (on the radar). Under it, where the entry states one: how the room takes bookings, and the date I last checked the entry.
The whole list.
Every room saved here, by where it is. 26 of them.
Louisville17
Louisville does the eating and the drinking. NuLu and Clifton keep the restaurants, the bourbon bars pour verticals nobody can buy off a shelf, and two working distilleries stand inside the city limits.
- 21c Museum Hotel Louisville
- 610 Magnolia
- Against the Grain Brewing
- Book & Bourbon Southern Kitchen - Louisville Airport
- Bourbons Bistro
- El Mundo
- Evan Williams Bourbon Experience
- Garage Bar
- Harvest Restaurant
- Holy Grale
- Michter's Shively Distillery
- MilkWood Restaurant
- Morris Deli, Liquor & Catering
- Old 502 Winery
- Quills Coffee - Cardinal Towne
- Sunergos Coffee
- Troll Pub Under the Bridge
The distillery counties7
Buffalo Trace at Frankfort, Woodford Reserve on the Versailles pike, Four Roses at Lawrenceburg, Willett above Bardstown, Limestone Branch at Lebanon and Wilderness Trail at Danville. An hour of two-lane road separates any two of them.
Bardstown · 2
Danville · 1
Frankfort · 1
Lawrenceburg · 1
Lebanon · 1
Versailles · 1
Owensboro2
Two hours west on the Ohio, Owensboro smokes mutton over hickory and has done it longer than anywhere else.