Mayan Cafe is a yucatecan restaurant in Nulu, Louisville.
Editorially verified May 21, 2026 by Elliot Marsh, TableJourney editor. Source.
Guided tour · 3 hours
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 ...
Guided tour · 3.5 - 5 hours
Explore Louisville on a guided walking tour of Whiskey Row or Nulu. Learn about the city's history and culture, and taste beer, bourbon, candies, and local dishes.
Guided tour · 3 hours
Taste paired bites, bourbon, and cocktails. Learn the unfiltered story of bourbon while exploring the vibrant NuLu district of Louisville.
Address: 813 East Market Street, Louisville, KY 40206
Lou Lou on Market in Louisville moved into the former Decca space, a New Orleans-rooted NuLu kitchen running shrimp and grits and Bananas Foster.
OrderThe shrimp and grits, the kitchen's loudest plate.
TipPatio seats are first-come on weekends. Book the dining room on OpenTable for Friday and Saturday.
bar Vetti in Louisville pours Italian wines and pulls house-made pasta from the AC Hotel corner of East Market and Shelby Street in NuLu. Priced at $$$.
OrderWhatever pasta is on the daily list, plus the Caesar salad for the table.
TipBook on Resy. Bar seats and the patio take walk-ins early in the evening.
Jack Fry's has run on Bardstown Road in Louisville since 1933, the Highlands dining bar where the counter takes walk-ins for the full menu. Priced at $$$.
OrderThe lamb chops, the dish that has anchored the menu for decades.
TipBook on OpenTable a week ahead. First-come bar seats turn over for walk-ins.
Lou Lou on Market in Louisville moved into the former Decca space, a New Orleans-rooted NuLu kitchen running shrimp and grits and Bananas Foster.
OrderThe shrimp and grits, the kitchen's loudest plate.
TipPatio seats are first-come on weekends. Book the dining room on OpenTable for Friday and Saturday.
bar Vetti in Louisville pours Italian wines and pulls house-made pasta from the AC Hotel corner of East Market and Shelby Street in NuLu. Priced at $$$.
OrderWhatever pasta is on the daily list, plus the Caesar salad for the table.
TipBook on Resy. Bar seats and the patio take walk-ins early in the evening.
Le Moo in Louisville runs Lexington Road's theatrical steakhouse: a black-walled dining room, dry-aged cuts and a caviar service that arrives on a silver.
OrderA bone-in ribeye and the caviar service to start.
TipReserve on OpenTable for the dining room. The bar pours a sharp bourbon list with the full menu.
Buck's Restaurant in Louisville has poured Old Louisville's continental dinner since 1992, set inside the historic Mayflower building on West Ormsby.
OrderThe crab cakes and the bacon-wrapped shrimp, two long-running classics.
TipClosed Sundays. Best for a special-occasion dinner with a view of the room's vintage piano bar.
Volare in Louisville pours seasonal Italian dinners with house-made pasta on Frankfort Avenue, three years running the Louisville Magazine readers' best.
OrderThe sea bass piccata, the kitchen's most-ordered plate.
TipBook the dining room online. The bar opens at 16:30 and pours a sharp aperitivo list.
