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And the Best Coffee Shop (multiple locations) is…Heine Brothers!This is their 13th Best of Louisville award. They won th...
14/10/2025

And the Best Coffee Shop (multiple locations) is…

Heine Brothers!

This is their 13th Best of Louisville award. They won their first in 1997 for Best Coffee Shop, three years after opening the original Longest Avenue location.

More here, including an object that says something essential about HB and Scroll Credits: bestof.louisville.com/business/heine-brothers

In 1989, for the third-annual Best of Louisville, we published our first coffee-related category: Best Cup of Coffee, wo...
29/09/2025

In 1989, for the third-annual Best of Louisville, we published our first coffee-related category: Best Cup of Coffee, won by John Conti Coffee Co. (with, somehow, White Castle finishing second and McDonald’s third). This year, in the category Best Coffee Shop (with multiple locations), our voting academy determined these nominees:

Heine Brothers

Please & Thank You

Quills

Sunergos

(We’ll also be publishing a category recognizing individual coffee shop locations.)

More here: bestof.louisville.com/bol-category/coffee-shop-multiple-locations

And the 2025 Best Fried Chicken winner is…Chik’n & Mi!They were nominated for the first time in 2018, for Best New Resta...
10/09/2025

And the 2025 Best Fried Chicken winner is…

Chik’n & Mi!

They were nominated for the first time in 2018, for Best New Restaurant.

Our voting academy says: “Lightly fried, flavorful and with a bit of a culinary twist.”

“Eclectic.”

“The hot jeow b**g sauce goes crazy.”

Winner’s page: bestof.louisville.com/business/chikn-mi

We’ve only published the Best Fried Chicken category one other time, in 2018, when Joella’s won. (Joella’s also won a si...
03/09/2025

We’ve only published the Best Fried Chicken category one other time, in 2018, when Joella’s won. (Joella’s also won a similar category, Best Chicken Restaurant, in 2016.) Here are this year’s nominees for Best Fried Chicken, as determined by our voting academy:

Chicken King

Chik’n & Mi

Indi’s

Joella’s

Mellwood Tavern

Royals

More here: bestof.louisville.com/bol-category/fried-chicken

And the 2025 Best LGBTQ-Friendly Bar is…Big Bar!This is their first nomination and win. Our voting academy says: “Big Ba...
03/09/2025

And the 2025 Best LGBTQ-Friendly Bar is…

Big Bar!

This is their first nomination and win.

Our voting academy says: “Big Bar gives a home for q***r people, including nightlife gig workers — bartenders, bar staff, drag artists, etc. — and has enough going on that there’s usually a place for everyone to do what they want.”

Winner’s page here: bestof.louisville.com/business/big-bar

Best of Louisville debuted in 1986, and this is the first time we’ve done a Best LGBTQ-Friendly Bar category. (One of th...
03/09/2025

Best of Louisville debuted in 1986, and this is the first time we’ve done a Best LGBTQ-Friendly Bar category. (One of the nominees, PLAY, has been nominated in other categories and in 2016 won Best Place to Dance.) Louisville Magazine did a collab with Q***r Kentucky last year, and one of the quotes somebody shared about the MerryWeather applies to all five of these nominees: “I always feel accepted.”

This year’s nominees for Best LGBTQ-Friendly Bar, as determined by our voting academy, are:

Big Bar

Chill Bar

The MerryWeather

Pearl of Germantown

PLAY Dance Bar

More here: bestof.louisville.com/bol-category/lgbtq-friendly-bar

And the 2025 Best Food Truck, as determined by our voting academy, is…Hot Buns! This is their first nomination and win. ...
29/08/2025

And the 2025 Best Food Truck, as determined by our voting academy, is…

Hot Buns!

This is their first nomination and win.

Their self-description: “We like steamed buns and we cannot lie.”

Winner’s page here: bestof.louisville.com/business/hot-buns

This is the fifth time we’ve done the Best Food Truck category. The first winner, in 2014, was the burger truck Grind (n...
28/08/2025

This is the fifth time we’ve done the Best Food Truck category. The first winner, in 2014, was the burger truck Grind (now a restaurant in NuLu). Longshot Lobsta won twice, FlavaVille did once.

This year, our voting academy selected five nominees, one of which, the Hip Hop Sweet Shop, has been a popular traveling bus and is now operating out of a shop in Russell. The finalists are:

Bamba Eggroll Co.

Celtic Pig

Hip Hop Sweet Shop

Hot Buns

Traveling Kitchen

More here: bestof.louisville.com/bol-category/food-truck

And the 2025 Best Tacos winner is…Taco Luchador!This is their first win and third nomination (first nom in 2014 for Best...
28/08/2025

And the 2025 Best Tacos winner is…

Taco Luchador!

This is their first win and third nomination (first nom in 2014 for Best New Restaurant).

Our voting academy says: “Just love the vibe of the place. There are tons of taco places around, but I feel like it is something different.”

Winner’s page: bestof.louisville.com/business/taco-luchador

Since Best of Louisville debuted in 1986, we’ve published the Best Mexican Restaurant category 10 times (El Mundo has th...
27/08/2025

Since Best of Louisville debuted in 1986, we’ve published the Best Mexican Restaurant category 10 times (El Mundo has three wins in that one) but the more specific Best Taco category only twice (won by Santa Fe Grill in 2003 and Manny & Merle in 2015). This year, our voting academy selected a stacked field of finalists.

The 2025 nominees are:

Bandido

El Molcajete

El Mundo

I Love Tacos

Taco Choza

Taco City

Taco Luchador

More here: bestof.louisville.com/bol-category/tacos

And the 2025 Best Burger winner is…Mussel & Burger Bar!They’ve won four Best of Louisville awards, including this catego...
20/08/2025

And the 2025 Best Burger winner is…

Mussel & Burger Bar!

They’ve won four Best of Louisville awards, including this category one other time, in 2018. They won their first in 2014, for Best Restaurant Worth the Wait.

Our voting academy says: “Love how the Taylorsville Road location is a little off the beaten path.”

Winner’s page: bestof.louisville.com/business/mussel-and-burger-bar

And now Best Burger, a category we’ve done 12 other times since the inaugural Best of Louisville in ’86. (The two catego...
19/08/2025

And now Best Burger, a category we’ve done 12 other times since the inaugural Best of Louisville in ’86. (The two categories we’ve done the most: Best New Restaurant 30 times and Best Pizza 26 times.) W.W. Cousins has dominated the Best Burger category over the years, winning in ’86 and nine other times.

This year, our voting academy selected these six nominees:

80/20 @ Kaelin’s

Game

Grind Burger Kitchen

Holy Grale

Mussel & Burger Bar

Toasty’s Tavern

More here: bestof.louisville.com/bol-category/burger

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