We’re supposed to be in the middle of a recession right now, but somebody forgot to tell Louisville’s entrepreneurs. New businesses seem to be opening all over the place these days. We spotted another new restaurant on Baxter Avenue called “Bunz” looks like its ready to open any day now in the old Omar’s Gyro location. We don’t know anything about it, but it looks like it’s going to be a burger place and the inside is set up like a small diner. We like the sign.
Quills Coffee is opening tomorrow across the street. We think the new retail front is quite improved. Now if someone would just get rid of the ugly 2nd floor aluminum siding. But these are just two of the new rush of restaurants opening in Louisville lately. 732 Social just opened in The Green Building, Wiltshire on Market isn’t far down the street, two new restaurants will open in Slugger Field by Derby, Kaelin’s is getting new life, Sunergos Coffee is opening in Beechmont, and Pita Hut is expanding. But there’s more; Toast is opening in New Albany, along with the new Bank Street Brewhouse and several other eateries, a new salad store is coming Downtown soon, a new sandwich shop is on Barret Avenue, and a Subway and Jimmy John’s will open soon in East Downtown. That’s just a handful of the new eateries, let us know what we left out in the comments. And there’s new retail, too; like Butchertown’s My Old Kentucky Homebrew store and WHY Louisville’s expansion to name just two.
We’re not sure how other cities are doing on their local business front, but Louisville appears to be doing pretty well as far as start-ups go. We wish all the new businesses and restaurants the best of luck as we weather the rest of the economic downtown.
as well as Bike Couriers Bike Shop about to open it's Fourth Street location in the coming week… hopefully.
Um, whatever happened to the Beechmont Sunergos? It’s appeared for several months that they stopped work. I was really looking forward to it.
They are doing all of the work themselves and they plan to open in September. You can try their coffee at the Beechmont Open Air market at Southern Parkway at Wellington on Saturdays from 8-12noon.
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Thanks for keeping up to date with the Sunergos project, Gary. It’s good to hear that they’re part of the Beechmont market.
I’m glad to hear that! I love their coffee and have visited their Preston location many times. It will be nice to have them in walking distance!