Outlets: Garden & Gun


  • At 100, the Kentucky Hot Brown Is So Much More Than a Sandwich

    A century after chef Fred Schmidt created the Hot Brown in 1926, Garden & Gun celebrates the dish as a piece of living history — one that still draws visitors to The Brown Hotel to taste the original in its original surroundings.

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  • Ten Standout Southern Bourbon Festivals

    Garden & Gun named the Kentucky Bourbon Festival a standout Southern bourbon festival, spotlighting its ticketed tasting experience on the lawn of the Oscar Getz Museum of Bourbon History — a fixture of Bardstown’s calendar since 1991.

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  • The Enduring Glamour of Louisville’s Brown Hotel

    Garden & Gun devoted a full feature to The Brown Hotel’s century of grandeur — from 1,200-person dinner dances in the Roaring Twenties to the Crystal Ballroom and Blue Room still hosting partygoers today, with Hot Browns served morning to night at the Lobby Bar & Grill and J. Graham’s Café.

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  • Garden & Gun counted The Brown Hotel’s lobby among the loveliest in the South — noting that a hotel special enough to staff its own in-house historian is special enough to linger in.

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