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Restaurants

Brasserie Dietrich's.  Atmospheric converted movie house in the Crescent Hill district, serving inventive seafood and meat dishes from a wood-burning grill.

Lynn's Paradise Café.  Quite simply a place that has to be visited for its stone-age theme decor.  Friendly staff serve big portions of standard American fare, a choice selection of beers, and the best breakfasts in the city.  In the lively Highlands neighborhood close to downtown.

Vietnam Kitchen .  A small basic eatery, fifteen minutes drive out of downtown in the South End, where the city's Asian chefs eat on their days off.  The menu is huge.

Attractions & Activities

The Kentucky Derby.  The Kentucky Derby is one of the world's premier horse races; it's also, as Hunter S. Thompson put it, "decadent and depraved."  Derby Day itself is the first Saturday in May, at the end of the two-week Kentucky Derby Festival.  Since 1875, the leading lights of Southern society have gathered for an annual orgy of betting, haute cuisine and mint juleps in the plush grandstand.
 
Louisville Slugger Museum.  No matter what you think of baseball, it's hard not to be impressed by the Louisville Slugger Museum.  Frequent tours start with a short, emotive movie featuring prominent shots of Louisville Slugger bats being used to good effect, before visiting displays honoring key players, a batting cage that gives you an idea of just how rapid a 95mph fastball really is, and a working bat factory, explaining all the processes involved in the manufacturing of wooden bats.  The trip ends with everyone getting a souvenir miniature bat.

Night Life

The Kentucky Center for the Arts , 501 W Main between Fifth and Sixth avenues (1-800/775-7777), and fronted by several outlandish sculptures, is Louisville's main venue for high culture.  The Actors' Theatre of Louisville at 316 W Main St (502/584-1205), meanwhile, has a national reputation for its new productions.  As for drinking and live music, the two-mile strip around Bardstown Road and Baxter Avenue (bus #17) is punctuated by fun bars and restaurants; the best gay clubs are on the eastern edge of downtown.
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