Overnight Stay: Louisville, Kentucky
There's more than just bourbon in Kentucky's largest city. Head to Louisville for peppered catfish nuggets, Neapolitan pizza, cool wine bars, and more.
Welcome to the weekend! Here’s what you’ll find in this week’s newsletter:
Overnight Stay: Whether you’re heading to Louisville for the 150th Kentucky Derby or just want to check out what the city has to offer, we have an itinerary for all your eating and drinking needs.
The Order: An ice cream shop in Prairie City, Iowa serves a mean pork tenderloin sandwich.
Weekend Getaway: Download your copy of our Field Guide to Nashville! This 42-page dining guide is formatted for your phone and includes a curated four-day itinerary with 30+ recommendations for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and drinks.
Weekend Reading: Tudor’s Biscuit World is honored by the readers of Garden & Gun, Los Angeles Times restaurant critic Bill Addison writes about his favorite spots in Koreatown, and Jacqueline Kehoe shares some historic lodges inside our National Parks for Travel + Leisure.
The Gateway to the Bourbon Trail
LOUISVILLE, KY. — There are many reasons to take a trip to Louisville in the spring. You can journey along the Urban Bourbon Trail before venturing out to visit the distilleries that dot the area (we particularly liked our tour of Willett Distillery in Bardstown). You can watch horse races like the Kentucky Derby (this year is the 150th running) at Churchill Downs while drinking mint juleps. Or, you can just spend a weekend restaurant and bar hopping. In this itinerary, we recommend two fun bourbon bars, as well as picks for coffee, wine, and sherry cobblers. And on the food side, we share our go-to spots for sausage biscuits, Neapolitan pizzas, and peppered catfish. Here’s how we’d spend our perfect day eating and drinking in Louisville.