The Uptown Cafe Restaurant Review
1624 Bardstown Rd. (Duker Ave.) 
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Louisville, KY 40205
502-458-4212 | Menu
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Lunch & Dinner Mon.-Sat.Features
- Romantic setting
- Full bar
- Outdoor dining
- Parking lot
- Casual
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 The selection of vintage Wiener Werkstätte posters on the walls sets a sophisticated tone at the Uptown Café, a Highlands fixture for more than two decades. Longstanding favorite dishes, including a smoked shrimp cakes appetizer, duck ravioli with white wine and peppercorn sauce, and lemon-scented chicken piccata, have been joined by some menu additions that will no doubt become Uptown classics in their turn. Among these are the grape leaves stuffed with ground tenderloin, basa fish tacos and a beer-marinated grilled flank steak. Many would argue that the Uptown has the city’s best desserts, all of which are enticingly displayed on the big round table in the center of the dining room. Richest among them is the Empress Carlotta, made with chocolate genoise, Chantilly cream filling and a mocha buttercream and toasted almond topping. Uptown’s wine list, which offers many choices by the glass, is decently selected, and fields a few dessert wines as well.
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