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Bourbon & BBQ-Road Trip to Louisville

Jul 9, 2014 · 10 Comments

Three friends went on a road trip to Louisville, KY over the July 4th weekend…and they remained friends {or so I think, lol}!

So over the holiday weekend my husband and I and one of our friends (and of course our dog, Clover) took a lovely road trip from Milwaukee – to Louisville with a quick stop to pick up said friend in Chicago.

Road Trip to Louisville

The trip started off smooth sailing with no traffic, then we hit a bad traffic patch in Indiana and were stuck for 2 hours…stop…go…stop…go…so we were really ready to get to the house we had rented.

Speaking of the house, how absolutely adorable is the Quaint Artsy Bungalow we stayed at? We found it listed on Airbnb.com (we’ve had such great luck with both vrbo.com – vacation rental by owner – and airbnb – both sites you can rent out homes or apartments). The owners of the home even left a super cute ‘welcome’ basket that had a list of their favorite restaurants in it.

Louisville trip this image

After we got settled, we went to the Silver Dollar restaurant where we had some of the BEST FOOD and DRINKS ever! Their Fried Pickles had this coating that didn’t slide off and their chicken and waffle…omg, to.die.for! So good!! It wasn’t too fancy, but had the most amazing flavors.

Silver Dollar Louisville

The next day we started off with homemade biscuit sandwiches from the Gralehaus and then drove to Bardstown to visit and tour the Barton 1792 Distillery.

Barton 1792 Distillery

You’ll have to excuse the ‘Danger Hot’ picture, it was just too cute not to include lol! I’m not that into Bourbon, but I definitely like the chocolate that we were served with each tasting! After visiting Barton 1792 (which was our favorite tour by far because it was so in depth and informative) we headed over to Heaven Hill Distilleries. Heaven Hill was big and showed a lot less, but had some really great informative displays to view.

Heaven Hill Distillery

Heaven hill was super fancy, they even had HH bushes. After the distillery we headed back to Louisville and  had dinner at Momma’s Mustard, Pickles, and BBQ. OMG you guys, the food was so good! They had a menu item called ‘burnt ends’ that were heavenly, and their sliders were insanely good. Oh yeah, and the pickles and mustard were good!! I have a serious love for mustard …and pickles, so I don’t think this place could have done wrong! So good! I want to go back and eat there again!

So you’d think we’d have been in a food coma after the delicious BBQ right? Wrong…we went to The Comfy Cow for some small batch ice cream. Ok, I would frequent this place just for the decor-just look at their stools…they also had cow hoof prints on the floor and chandeliers where each light bulb was coming out of an ice cream sundae!

The Comfy Cow

The next we started out at Hillbilly Tea for breakfast. This place was very interesting, maybe too ‘hipster’ for me…I mean, I try to be cool you guys, I try! To start, the menus were all printed on cloth making them virtually impossible to read, luckily Nick was super helpful and read the entire menu to us. I took a picture of Nick’s breakfast because I don’t know what I ordered with a fancy name that equated to a plate full off scrambled eggs and a piece of fruit on the side (Nick kindly gave me half his piece of toast to eat the eggs with, doesn’t his look good though). Their decor in the bathroom just made me lol, I had to take a picture of it to share. How does one not bump into that giant chair? And why is there a giant chair next to the toilet?

Hillbilly Tea

After breakfast we went to the Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory. This was quite fun…one funny thing is that after the tour the boys decided to go to the batting cages…it was them, and then a bunch of 10 year olds…truly made me laugh, but they had fun!

Louisville Slugger Museum and Factory

So after the Slugger Museum and Factory we went to somewhere that had been on my list – Art Eatables -oh and Nick took this funny pic of me planning our day. Louisville

Art Eatables makes small batch bourbon truffles, and since it was hot, we (read I) didn’t want them to melt, so we just HAD to finish off the box…only option, right? Each and every one was delicious, and you can see some stealing sharing going on.

Then we headed over to the Evan Williams’ Bourbon Experience which was let by the best tour guide ever, then had dinner at the Holy Grale which is in a renovated church and surprisingly (at least to us) shares a beer garden with the place we had breakfast, The Grale Hause! We finished the evening by having Chess Pie and ice cream from The Pie Kitchen (I tried the Chocolate Chess Pie…delish!)

Louisville Road Trip

Then, on the way home, we just so happened to be driving by where my little sister lives in Indiana and so we stopped to say hi, and I discovered there was this gorgeous canal that one could walk by, and see little adorable ducklings!

Indianapolis Canal

Then, after a wonderful trip we made it home.

Have you ever been to Louisville? I’d definitely suggest a fun weekend away!

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  1. I Wilkerson says

    July 14, 2014 at 8:32 pm

    What a fun trip!

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    • Sweetphi says

      July 14, 2014 at 8:42 pm

      It very much so was! Thanks for commenting!

      Reply
  2. caileejoy says

    July 10, 2014 at 11:04 am

    This is so cute!! Looks like you had a really fun time! your pictures are so great and I have to say… I LOVE the look of your blog!! it is so pretty!! And that picture of the sign about raisin cookies!! Too funny!! Love it! 🙂

    Reply
    • Sweetphi says

      July 10, 2014 at 8:41 pm

      AWE! Thank you Cailee, your comment totally made my day! Thanks for stopping by!

      Reply
  3. cheri says

    July 10, 2014 at 10:15 am

    Hi Phi, looks like a great trip, the food looks wonderful. Never been to Louisville. So nice you could stop and see your sister.

    Reply
    • Sweetphi says

      July 10, 2014 at 8:43 pm

      Thanks for commenting Cheri, it was so nice and unexpected to be able to see my sister on the way home, made the trip end on such a happy note 🙂

      Reply
  4. Tina | Mademoiselle Gourmande says

    July 10, 2014 at 6:17 am

    This looks like an amazing weekend, Phi! You sure had a lot of amazing food and tatsy drinks. I’m a tiny bit jealous… 🙂
    Also I love those cow stools… Hahaha, would totally go there just to sit on one of them… 🙂
    Have a great day!

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    • Sweetphi says

      July 10, 2014 at 8:39 pm

      Haha I know Tina, I almost wanted to take one of the chairs, that place was SO adorable!

      Reply

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