Woodstone Creek Spirits Now Available Online

Woodstone Creek's bourbon and vodka are now available for online purchases through Binny's.  If you'd like to try them, the bourbon is served at Hugo, Nicholson's, and Chalk, and the vodka at Below Zero and Chalk.

Chalk Food+Wine Menu

The current menu at Chalk Food+Wine (318 Greenup Street, Covington, 41011) calls out several local farms supplying ingredients, including Carriage House Farms, Duncan Farms, Neltner Farms, Walnut Ridge Acres, Sheltowee Farms, and their own Relish garden. 

I'm really happy to see this.  It's been difficult to know which local restaurants are sourcing locally when so few menus call out their local suppliers, and seeing this information on menus is very helpful.

I had dinner last Friday with some friends, and while I don't feel qualified to do restaurant reviews, I do have to say that the Summer Bean Cassoulet (with green beans and edamame in a broth flavored with pecorino romano) on the current menu is one of the best things I've tasted in a very long time.  I think I could literally eat it every day and not get tired of it.

Chalk Reviewed by Get in Mah Belly

Local food blogger Get in Mah Belly has re-reviewed Chalk Food + Wine.

Review of Chalk Food+Wine at WineMeDineMe

WineMeDineMe has reviewed Chalk Food+Wine, which sources locally.

Chalk Food + Wine to focus on local, seasonal ingredients

According to a press release today, Jean-Robert de Cavel's Pho Paris at 118 Greenup Street in Covington will reopen January 15th as Chalk Food + Wine with a menu

using the best fresh ingredients from the season and trying to use local products as much as possible, making everything from scratch.

For reservations call 859.643.1234, and soon the restaurant will be added to OpenTable.

Restaurants Sourcing Locally

Local independents sourcing locally.  For reviews, click on the Urban Spoon button beneath each restaurant's listing:

Chalk Food+Wine (Covington KY)

Green Dog Cafe (Columbia-Tusculum)

Greenup Cafe (Covington KY)

Lavomatic (Over-the-Rhine)

Local 127 (downtown)


Melt (Northside)

Mayberry (downtown)



Murphin Ridge Inn (Adams County)


Nectar (Mt Lookout)



Slims (Northside)

Symphony Hotel Bed & Breakfast (Over-the-Rhine)

Vineyard Cafe (Hyde Park)

Virgil's Cafe (Bellevue, KY)

Wildflower Cafe (Mason)