Restaurants in Louisville, KY

Louisville’s annual Kentucky Derby puts the national spotlight on derby pie, burgoo, and mint juleps. Year around, the city offers a plethora of good eats. Among them are the hot brown sandwich, invented and still served at the Brown Hotel, blue-ribbon pies at the Homemade Ice Cream and Pie Kitchen, and the unique local specialty known as a benedictine sandwich, a specialty of the Cottage Cafe over in Middletown.

Louisville’s Most Famous Dishes

5 layer cake: 5 flavors, 5 colors

Cakes

Slender wedge of clear chess pie is topped with a strawberry and whipped cream

Chess Pie

A basket of six hot donuts: plain, powdered sugar, cinnamon

Donuts

Mountainous sandwich holds pastrami, egg, French fries, cole slaw, and a tomato at Primanti Brothers in Pittsburg, PA

Sandwiches

Louisville’s Best Restaurants

Chick’n & Mi

LOUISVILLE, KY

Nord’s

LOUISVILLE, KY

Shirley Mae’s Cafe

LOUISVILLE, KY

Cottage Cafe

LOUISVILLE, KY

Homemade Ice Cream and Pie Kitchen

LOUISVILLE, KY

Deep fried frog legs at Mike Linnig's Restaurant
Mike Linnig’s Restaurant

LOUISVILLE, KY

Brown Hotel - Hot Brown Sandwich
Brown Hotel

LOUISVILLE, KY

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