Changes on the Local Horizon

Almost nineteen years ago, soon after I moved to Louisville, I realized I needed to find a small local store or two where I could buy the best produce and meats, regardless of the price. I wanted breakfast at my inn to be of the finest quality I could afford.

I was making a lot of items from scratch, like muffins and granola, but I also wanted waffles and pancakes that tasted amazing. I found that with Carbon Waffle Mix, a wholesale company in Michigan, I could order cases of their wonderful malted waffle and pancake mix and serve quality waffles and pancakes that all my guests would rave about.

Eventually I found four local markets I loved: Pauls Fruit and Vegetable Market, Burgers Fruit and Vegetable and meat market, KingsleyMeat Market, and a wonderful Flower, Seed, and Gardening Market. For the past eighteen years, I have been shopping faithfully at all four. Regretfully, two of them are closing this year.

Burgers, in the Cherokee Triangle, opened in 1958 and has been a fixture here in Louisville all that time. I

found them when I was looking for a place to buy a standing rib roast for Christmas dinner. They had the most wonderful meat counter with amazing butchers, skilled and friendly. I was so disappointed when I heard they were closing, but the saving grace is that their main butcher, Jeff Burger Jr. will be opening up a meat counter at Paul’s  Fruit Market in Middletown. Now I’ll still be able to get a fabulous standing rib roast for Christmas.

 The other store-closing is Bunton’s Seed Co.,

where I’ve bought flowers, grass seed, fertilizeRs and even garden tools and gloves for the past eighteen years. I will really miss them. They were a wonderful resource of information on lawns and gardens. As the song goes: Nothing Stays The Same and, as we know, "tempest fugit" (time marches on).


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Time to plan your summer vacation

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Louisville, Kentucky is a great place to stop by on your summer vacation. Or you can just use it as a destination, stay in a beautiful bed and breakfast and travel through the state from there. We have so many different things to do here in the summer, from wonderful outdoor festivals to Bourbon and wine trails to gorgeous state parks to charming little towns and interesting history. For information on what there is to do, you can go to  Louisville Visitor's Center or the Old Louisville Visititor's Center.

Take a tour through streets lined with seven major kinds of architecture and more stained glass than in any other city in the United States. Enjoy our fantastic local restaurants, sample our Bourbon, Derby pie, and Hot Brown sandwiches. Check out Churchill Downs where they hold the Kentucky Derby and take a short trip to Mammoth Cave. There is so much more to do. Come and see for yourself.

Here, at our bed and breakfast, we have several suites which will accommodate families. If you'ld like to get away by yourselves, out guestrooms are spacious and comfortable. Check out our website.



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