Food with a dash of Middle Eastern culture, unique local artwork, flavorful hookahs, varieties of music, and internet access can all be found at one place: Café 360.

 

This article appears in the July 2011 issue of LouisvilleMagazine. To subscribe, please visit loumag.com.

 

On more occasions in the past year than I care to ponder, a server has described a restaurant’s house potato salad as “not your grandmother’s potato salad.” I’ve even seen the phrase printed on menus, and not just in this town. 

Want to learn how to prepare healthy food in your own kitchen? Willing to give raw and minimally cooked vegetarian cuisine a try but not sure where to start? Interested in low-mileage, high-octane fuel that sustains both the environment and your body? Join Chef Peter Klarman, who will lead “Cookin’ It Up with Chef Peter” at Gilda’s Club Wednesday evening, February 10, from 6:00 to 8:00 P.M.

I’ve worked downtown for a few years, long enough to have my handful of lunch places I frequent. By handful I mostly mean Bendoya sushi on 5th. But for weeks and weeks this spring I noticed as my #2 bus crept down Market that an interesting new place was under construction. “Chop Shop Salads” read the sign. It looked like a place my fellow non-meat eating co-workers and I might dig. But it never seemed to show any sign that it would actually open soon.