Louisville: 3-Hour Food and History Tour of NuLu District
Get to know the story of Louisville one bite at a time on a guided food and history tour of the city's trendy NuLu District. Sample local favorites like bourbon balls ...
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Louisville's drinking culture is built on bourbon, and many of its best bars sit along the downtown distillery district on Main Street. Old Forester, Michter's Fort Nelson, Angel's Envy and the Evan Williams Bourbon Experience cluster along Main, while Down One Bourbon Bar and Doc Crow's pour deep whiskey lists nearby and Holy Grale tends a quieter bar on Bardstown Road.
Doc Crow's Southern Smokehouse and Raw Bar ★ 4.8
127 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Doc Crow's on West Main in Louisville pours from a 2,700-bourbon library on Whiskey Row, the city's deepest bourbon list paired with smoked brisket and a raw.
Down One Bourbon Bar ★ 4.0
321 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Down One Bourbon Bar in the basement of the Galt House Hotel pours over 100 bourbons and Kentucky cocktails, the city's largest hotel-attached bourbon room.
Old Forester Distilling Company ★ 4.5
119 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Old Forester Distilling on West Main runs Louisville's first-bottled bourbon tour from the brand's original Whiskey Row warehouse, a $45 million distillery.
Michter's Fort Nelson Distillery ★ 4.7
801 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Michter's Fort Nelson on West Main runs a working distillery and bar inside an 1890 Whiskey Row building, the brand's Louisville home with The Bar at Fort.
Angel's Envy Distillery ★ 4.7
500 East Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Angel's Envy on East Main in Louisville runs distillery tours with a tasting bar called The Finishing Room, the brand's downtown home pouring port-finished.
Evan Williams Bourbon Experience ★ 4.1
528 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Evan Williams Bourbon Experience on West Main was the first distillery to open on Whiskey Row, an artisanal facility and tasting bar inside.
Rabbit Hole Distillery ★ 4.4
711 East Jefferson Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Rabbit Hole Distillery on East Jefferson Street in Louisville cooks craft bourbon and rye out of a NuLu modern facility, the boutique distillery.
Kentucky Peerless Distilling Co. ★ 4.4
120 North 10th Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Kentucky Peerless on North 10th Street in Louisville distills rye and bourbon downtown, the small-batch operation with a tasting bar and grain-to-glass tour.
Stitzel-Weller Distillery ★ 4.3
3860 Fitzgerald Road, Shively, KY 40216
Stitzel-Weller in Shively reopened a 1935 Derby-day-built distillery as the Bulleit Frontier Whiskey Experience, the historic Louisville bourbon cathedral.
Holy Grale ★ 4.6
1034 Bardstown Road, Louisville, KY 40204
Holy Grale on Bardstown Road in Louisville pours a 30-tap Belgian and German beer list from a restored 1905 Highlands church, the city's deepest European.
Proof on Main bar ★ 4.2
702 West Main Street, Louisville, KY 40202
Proof on Main's bar in the 21c Museum Hotel pours one of Kentucky's deepest bourbon flights paired with bison burgers. At 702 West Main Street.
Lobby Bar at the Brown Hotel ★ 4.1
335 West Broadway, Louisville, KY 40202
Lobby Bar at the Brown Hotel in Louisville pours mint juleps and bourbon flights inside the lobby where the Hot Brown sandwich was invented in 1926.
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