Lilly's Restaurant Review
1147 Bardstown Rd. (Patterson St.) 
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Louisville, KY 40204
502-451-0447 | Make Restaurant Reservations | Menu
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Lilly's Restaurant is one of our 2012
| Top 10 Louisville Food Rating Restaurants
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Cuisine
Open
Lunch & Dinner Tues.-Sat.Features
- Romantic setting
- Private room(s)
- Full bar
- Reservations suggested
- Outdoor dining
- Parking lot
- Business casual
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 A décor update has replaced the vivid greens and purples of the dining rooms with warm taupe and gray. Happily, both the scenic wall murals and the ever-changing "Kentucky bistro" menu remain. Chef-proprietor Kathy Cary was among the first chefs in the nation to approach local farmers about supplying her restaurant kitchen, and she's expanded that effort. You'll always find a seasonal Farmer's Plate of local produce on the menu, as well as pork and beef from a nearby livestock producer, the Old Hat Cattle Company. Cary travels annually to Europe and brings some continental flair to her Kentucky ingredients, too. Indulge in the fresh-cut fries sautéed in duck fat with your bourbon-based cocktail, or share an order of rustic pâté. The bourbon list has expanded, but the wine list is shorter than it used to be, though the reduced quantity is made up for in the quality of the selections. (The Pinot Noirs are especially notable.) Kentucky-inspired entrées, which appear on a rotating basis, include buttermilk fried chicken thighs with lima bean casserole, Kentucky bison short ribs with locally ground grits, and pork tenderloin with bourbon-Dijon pan sauce. A dessert combining the sweet and the savory is the bourbon-pecan gelato with bits of bacon. More traditional offerings are caramel cake and seasonal fruit cobblers.
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