Barrel House Distilling Co.
A small craft distillery in the Distillery District offering tours and tastings.
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Eat & drink around Lexington
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Bespoken Spirits
A spirits maker with a tasting room and cocktail bar at Greyline Station on West Loudon Avenue. It also builds private-label and barrel-pick bottlings, and its visit page lists tasting room hours and Thursday cocktail classes.
Blue Stallion Brewing
A brewery on West Third Street known for German- and English-style lagers and ales.
Bluegrass Distillers
A bourbon distillery on its own farm in Midway, where it grows corn and wheat for its spirits. Visitors can tour the distillery, taste from the barrel and hand-cork a bottle to take home.
Bourbon On Main
A restaurant and bourbon bar in a two-story brick building downtown, with a tiered outdoor deck overlooking the Kentucky River and the State Capitol.
Buffalo Trace Distillery
A Frankfort distillery with three guided tours (the Trace Tour, the Hard Hat Tour and the Old Taylor Tour), walk-in tastings and a gift shop.
Castle & Key
A distillery on McCracken Pike, founded in 1887 by E.H. Taylor Jr., where visitors can walk the gardens, book a distillery tour and shop in the Boiler Room.
Coffee Times Coffee House
A coffee house on Regency Road, with coffee, tea, and goods featured on its official site.
Coles 735 Main
A dinner restaurant on East Main Street in a restored 1938 building that first housed The Stirrup Cup, with painted hunt scene murals from 1949.
Country Boy Brewing
Country Boy Brewing's original taproom on Chair Avenue, a place to drink the brewery's beer on tap.
Country Boy Brewing Georgetown
Country Boy Brewing's taproom in Lanes Run Business Park, with a kitchen on site. Visitors can drink in the taproom or book a brewery tour.
Crank & Boom · Clays Mill
Crank & Boom’s Clays Mill location, for an ice cream stop on the south side of Lexington.
Crank & Boom · Distillery District
An ice cream stop on Manchester Street. Pair a visit with a look around the Distillery District.
Dark Arts Whiskey House & Alchemy Lab
A whiskey house and tasting room in Lexington's Distillery District on Manchester Street.
Doodles Breakfast & Lunch
A locally owned breakfast and lunch restaurant at the corner of North Limestone and Third Street, open since 2008. Eat inside, on the patio or take food to go.
Dudley's on Short
A downtown restaurant on West Short Street serving dinner and a Friday through Sunday brunch since 1981, with rooftop garden seating in season.
Equus Run Vineyards
A vineyard and farm outside Midway on South Elkhorn Creek with a tasting room for its wines and spirits. Visitors can book a guided tour or tasting, or pick up a map for a self-guided walk of the 38 acres.
Ethereal Brewing
A Distillery District brewery on Manchester Street, with a Public House downtown on West Vine Street.
Four Roses Distillery
A bourbon distillery on Bonds Mill Road in Lawrenceburg with a visitor center, a retail shop and Bar 1888. Its ten recipes pour at the bar on a rotating basis with Four Roses cocktails, and tours and tastings are by reservation.
High on Art & Coffee
A coffee shop on East High Street that sells work by more than 100 artists. Order coffee and food, and browse the art while you are there.
Honeywood
A Kentucky food restaurant at The Summit at Fritz Farm, near Nicholasville Road and Man O' War Boulevard, serving lunch, dinner and weekend brunch, using locally grown meat and produce where it can.
James E. Pepper Distillery
A restored bourbon distillery in the Distillery District with tours, a retail area and a bar.
Joe Bologna's Restaurant
An Italian restaurant and pizza parlor on West Maxwell Street, open since 1973 in a former synagogue with stained-glass windows. Pizza dough and breadsticks are made in house.
Le Deauville
A French bistro on North Limestone serving dinner.