80 LOUISVILLE MAGAZINE 12.14
THE
TASTING
MENU
highlandcleaners.com
By Elizabeth Myers
Louisville Magazine publishes its
comprehensive restaurant listings in
EATS, issued each fall and available
year-round on newsstands. For this
month's Tasting Menu, we focused
on restaurants that offer traditional
(or not-so-traditional) holiday foods:
the birds, the fxins and the desserts.
Be thankful to live in such a great
culinary town. (Or you could skip this
list entirely and just buy a country ham
from Morris' Deli on Taylorsville Road
and be done with it.)
The Birds
Frankfort Avenue Beer Depot and
Smokehouse: Smoked Turkey
3204 Frankfort Ave., 895-3223,
frankfortavenuebeerdepot.com
The Frankfort Avenue Beer Depot's website is a
work of modern art, with all-caps quotes like, "IF
IT AIN'T BARBECUE IT AIN'T FOOD I DIDN'T
CLAW MY WAY UP THE FOOD CHAIN JUST
TO EAT VEGETABLES" and the oddly capitalized
"We Rub the Best Butts…in Louisville KY." It is
actually possible to order 25 pounds of meat
from the Frankfort Avenue Beer Depot as part
of a "100-Person" meal, which would completely
absolve you from any holiday cooking duties
whatsoever. But if you're just looking for the bird,
FABD sells smoked whole turkeys during the
holiday season.
The English Grill at the
Brown Hotel: Hot Brown
335 West Broadway, 583-1234, brownhotel.com
A mainstay on the "stuff you can only fnd in
Louisville" lists (and who doesn't love reading 18
of those on your Facebook feed every day!), the
Hot Brown is, in the spirit of Christmas leftovers,
a turkey sandwich, albeit one immediately
improved by being smothered in cheese sauce
and bacon. Could you go all hostess-with-the-
mostest and order these from the English Grill as
part of your Louisville-themed holiday? Indeed
you could. You could also use the Brown's recipe
for the famed sandwich, available online.
Holiday Edition