Butchertown Grocery Bakery - Louisville

Really great restaurant! Beautiful room, great service, tables are spread far apart. Brussel Sprouts were great. Chicken entree and, burger both perfect. Extensive cocktail list. Service was paced perfectly; not rushed but always attentive.

I was disappointed in the food. I had such high hopes. I had the steak frites. The steak temperature was cooked to perfection (medium rare) but it didn 't have much flavor. I 've had better steak at chains like the Capital Grille. It probably didn 't help that I ate at Jack Fry 's recently and their filet makes this steak taste like a marie calender meal. It 's was a good steak but really I 'd rather eat my own grilled Ribeye at home. Me making a better tasting steak against a trained chef shouldn 't happen. I really would choose my thick cut ribeye from Kroger 's over thier steak frites (Even without price being a factor). I made a prime rib roast from Kingsley for Christmas. I used a recipe from Pioneer woman. Never made it before. So great! Butchertown steak, nope. Moving on the Fries were really dry and awful. I 'd rather eat McDonald 's or Homerun burger fries. Why use Fries with this meal? Brought the dish down a notch. The broccolini was decent but didn 't blow me away. I mean come on! I hate lima beans and Pat 's Steak House has lima beans that blow me away. I 'd eat a lima bean sandwich from there. I 'd spread those beans on my toast. My wife really loved her burger. I had a bite. It was good. I asked if it was better than the burgers at Baxter Station on Payne before they closed. She loved their burgers for some reason. The answer was no. Mussel and Burger Bar? No. Jack Fry 's? Hard to tell Next the coffee was great at first but getting down to the bottom of the press there was an alcohol like aftertaste. When it came time for dessert I opted to just go home and make my own trader Joes creme brulee. Sad.

Went for a late lunch New yYars Eve Day limited menu but good. Service was okay we said we wanted to take our time but they kept checking. Please. Also, lots of servers moving past us to go someplace in the back to eat and having conversations the restaurant is our chance to relax, I am not interested in servers conversations, pep talks, etc. Just a lot of busyness. One other thing, there was an empty dining area when we arrived and we were a party of two yet we were placed in the booth closest to the rest rooms and the servers area...why? Was there a place to hang coats? No one inquired or asked us we wedged them in our booths and this could have been better. One nice thing we left a holiday card on the table and another server stepped out into the cold and returned it to us as we left the restaurant. Thank you.

Fabulous cocktails, really good, hearty pasta dishes that tasted great on a freezing cold night. And thanks to a gracious staff who helped us relocate away from a table of loud-talkers.

I thought it was rather expensive. The food was delicious.