On the Menu: Bourbons Bistro Louisville, Ky.

It’s fitting that Kentucky’s signature libation, bourbon, figures prominently in the menu at Bourbons Bistro, a contemporary Southern restaurant on one of Louisville’s trendiest thoroughfares.

Though the two-year-old establishment boasts a list of 135 bourbons, it is known as much for its food as for its drinks. Housed in a red brick building built in 1877, Bourbons was originally a grocery store and, later, a tavern.