Louisville Attractions?

[parker]

Great city, went to Shogun and ate and it was pretty good. Went to Dicks down the road and bought 27 baseballs. Went to actors theater and saw Dracula, it was an experience, didnt like it much. Then went to Indiana to the BOAT, too much smoke for me and didnt win anything. My question is what attractions are in the ville most outsiders dont know about? As you can see I will do about anything and I want to go to a bats game and a lville football game. Is there anything I am missing that alot of you do on weekends in the ville? Oh, I have fished the Ohio and caught several Sauger and that was fun, what am I missing?

[walkeraviator]

If you like museums...
Louisville Slugger Museum
Speed Art Museum
Firerams museum downtown
Louisville Science Center

If you like the Bar scene on the weekends...
Lots of irish Pubs
4th street
Bardstown Rd area...

If you are lookin for food... well its all about what kind of food you are lookin for... i suggest tryin Mike Linnigs...

Always something cool goin on at the Palace Theater

The Louisville Zoo is freakin great if you gots kids...

And the park system in this town aint bad at all... lots of city parks with good hiking, fishing, that sort of stuff...

Oh and there is Bass Pro Shop Outddor World where you can feed your bait monkey...

[parker]

Thanks Walker! Thats the kind of stuff I was looking for. The science center followed by eating at Lennings then top it off at the theater will definetly be my next outing.

[the_donger]

I highly recommend the Speed Art Museuem. It is not about racing, Speed was the guys last name...internationally known museum. Also, the Falls of the Ohio is really fun, lots of fossils and cool other stuff to look at.

[parker]

I highly recommend the Speed Art Museuem. It is not about racing, Speed was the guys last name...internationally known museum. Also, the Falls of the Ohio is really fun, lots of fossils and cool other stuff to look at.

I have never been to an Art Museum, definately on my list though. I have fished in front of the Falls for sauger, im assuming the fossils are in the rock around there, does the river have to be low to see them or are they in the big rocks on the bank?

[RoadToad]

They're in the flat rocks that extend a little ways offshore near the Interpretive Center. The river doesn't have to be all that high to cover them. It's one of the largest naturally exposed Denovian fossil beds in the world; really cool to walk around on.

Ditto on the Slugger Museum. If you like baseball you gotta see it. It's also their factory, so if you go, take the tour. And Slugger Field is a great place to see a ballgame. The Bats' season runs from early April 'til around Labor Day. It's a beautiful ballpark with a great family atmosphere.

[Tim_T]

Hey Parker, if you are into the party scene 4th. Street Live is pretty cool on the weekends. Slugger Museum is cool as is the Fireamrs museum practically across the road. The Ali center is areally cool as well and you can spend most of a day there. As for food, Mike Linnings is a good deal with a great atmosphere. Also Porcini's has a special that involves aged snapper stuffed with 15 second Italian Sausage!

[parker]

Hey Parker, if you are into the party scene 4th. Street Live is pretty cool on the weekends. Slugger Museum is cool as is the Fireamrs museum practically across the road. The Ali center is areally cool as well and you can spend most of a day there. As for food, Mike Linnings is a good deal with a great atmosphere. Also Porcini's has a special that involves aged snapper stuffed with 15 second Italian Sausage!

Went by the ALI center on the way to the BOAT. Never heard of Porcinis"s though. Snapper and saugage sounds great!

[eddie_m]

There are a number of really interesting areas of Louisville. On the first Friday of each month, the art galleries on Market Street just east of downtown (an area called NuLu) stay open until 9pm or so and serve wine. It's a great time to people-watch, look at some art, have some wine and eat at one of the restaurants nearby.

Frankfort Avenue also has a similar event with the trolleys running and multitudes walking up and down the street among the great galleries, shops, restaurants and bars (that area is called Crescent Hill).

Bardstown Road, in the Highlands, has the same feel with restaurants, locally-owned stores, and lots of walking traffic.

Louisville was just named the second best food city by some national magazine (I forgot which mag). Here are my favorites:
Expensive -- Jack Fry's, Uptown Cafe (best desserts in town), August Moon (Chinese), J. Alexander's
Moderate -- Irish Rover, Ditto's, Bristol Bar & Grill, Queen of Sheba (it's Ethiopian, if you like really exotic food), El Mundo (Mexican), Cumberland Microbrewery, Cafe LuLu, Wick's Pizza, Impellizeri Pizza
Cheap -- Bluegrass Brewing Company, The Bambi Bar (on Bardstown Rd, best burgers in town!), Annie Cafe (Vietnamese food), Morris Deli, Homemade Ice Cream & Pie Kitchen

Other things to do: free concerts at the Waterfront on Wednesdays, St. Joseph's Orphanage picnic, Churchill Downs, the KY Derby Festival (includes the mini-marathon, balloon glow, Thunder over Louisville, etc.), the QDMA convention, the classic car show, they stock some local lakes with rainbow trout, check it all out at Louisvillescene.com.

I love this town.

[parker]

I love Pizza! is one of the ones you mentioned next to Shogun, it was packed over there?

[RoadToad]

Yeah there are some great places to eat. A couple that haven't been mentioned are: Safier's, on 4th St just up from the Palace. One of the owners is Greek, the other Hindi, and their menu is kind of a cross. Real good food and not expensive. My vegetarian friends say theirs is the best falafel in town. And I think Sante Fe Grill, across from Cardinal Stadium, is some of the best Mexican food in town, and probably the cheapest. No alcohol at either place, but Sante Fe's does sell "Mexican Coke," which is formulated a little different than the Coke you usually get in the States. And if you're going there, take cash. They don't take no stinkin' plastic!

[MrSplitshot]

All that cool stuff to do...and they had to go and ruin it by making it the home of the Cardinals. Sheesh!

I'm actually quite a fan of going to the Indiana side of the river and eating over there at Kingfish or Buckhead Mountain Grille...good food, and if the weather is nice you can sit out back and get a nice skyline view of Louisville across the river.

Can't believe nobody has mentioned taking a ride on the Belle of Louisville!