We were both awake early today. We were on a schedule both this morning and this afternoon, so we headed for breakfast early. It was a pretty short walk to Wild Eggs for breakfast, where we were seated almost immediately. As was the trend in Louisville (and everywhere, let’s be real), their serving team was very understaffed, but boy were they hustling. Breakfast here was great. As usual, I don’t remember what Nick ate. We both had their house made lemonade. I had the giant cinnamon roll that comes smothered in vanilla sauce. We would happily eat here again too.
After breakfast, we headed back to the hotel briefly and then we walked back down Main Street for our first tour of the day. This one surprisingly had nothing to do with alcohol. While neither of us are baseball fans, we do find it interesting to see where things are made, so it was time to check out the Louisville Slugger Factory.
This was a great tour. It was kind of unique in that we had a tour guide, but each stop on the tour had a video clip and then the tour guide answered questions, gave additional info, related the video to what we were seeing in front of us, etc. Regardless of how the tour was structured, Louisville Slugger is an impressive company, and we both enjoyed the tour a lot. Go here, even if you’re not a baseball fan.
After receiving our complimentary mini (18” long and thin) Louisville Sluggers as a reward for completing the tour, we headed across the street to Art Eatables. Art Eatables is a candy store that we’d spotted on our way to the Frazier Museum the day before and then we had discovered on our tour later in the day that they provide the chocolate pairings for the Angel’s Envy tour. So, we decided we needed to check out the store. We had a lot of fun in here, both leaving with a bag full of chocolates, many of which involved alcohol, and all of which have proven to be delicious as we’ve sampled our way through them in the last month. This should be another stop for Louisville visitors for sure.
Chocolate purchased, we began deciding what to do. I had not done a great job of timing our tours today. It was still too early for lunch (and we weren’t hungry after our big breakfast) and our next tour wasn’t until 1:30. So we headed for the hotel. Nick napped. Eventually we had a bit of a snack (leftover pizza for Nick, a Nature Valley sandwich for me) and then we headed back to Main Street.
Our final tour in Louisville was at Evan Williams. Our tour guide was Bob, who was originally from New England. He had a great sense of humor and appeared to love both his job and being able to joke about NH liquor stores with us during the tour. The Evan Williams Experience was completely different from Angel’s Envy. Evan Williams is the oldest distillery on Whiskey Row, but most of their whiskey is made out in Bardstown, at Heaven Hill, which they are part of. They bottle just a small amount of whiskey in Louisville. The tour here was a Disney level production, complete with a tasting room themed to the early 1900s. It was also a great experience.
Tour and tasting finished, we hit the gift shop and then headed back to the hotel to chill for a bit before dinner. Yes, we logged a lot of miles walking back and forth to the hotel today!
Tonight the forecast was for rain, so I had very intentionally saved the dinner it made the most sense to Uber/Lyft to for this evening. When we were ready to go, I requested a Lyft (3 Hilton Honor points per dollar and 10 Chase Ultimate Rewards Points per dollar for going Lyft instead of Uber..no brainer) and minutes later, our driver arrived. It was a pretty quick drive to the Brown Hotel, where we fairly easily found the Lobby Bar. The hostess seated us in a back room, making me wonder if we a) had done things right and b) weren’t elite enough to be in the main lobby bar, but we had a great experience overall.
The Brown Hotel is a historic hotel in Louisville and is where the Hot Brown originated. The Hot Brown is the dish of Louisville. It’s an open face turkey sandwich with some ham thrown in there for good measure, and then smothered in a cheesy gravy. Following dad’s directions, we ordered one to split, along with an order of the bourbon barrel fries. I had the Lily to drink (x2). Nick had some bourbon based drink. Dinner was delicious, our surroundings were beautiful, and service was excellent.
Dinner finished, we requested another Lyft, and we were back at our hotel soon after. By now it was raining hard, so I was very glad we had planned dinner the way we (I did). I was also glad we’d gotten way less rain this week than originally forecast!
Back at the hotel, we got serious about packing so that we could head out earlyish the next morning. Tomorrow we would begin the trek north, but we still had more touristing to squeeze into the trip before we truly headed north.
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