Carlyraes
Restaurant Info:
Address: 103 West Oak Street
Louisville, KY, 40203
Phone #: (502) 365-1003
Cuisine Style: American and Continental
Area of town: Downtown
Carly Rae's in Old Louisville offers southern comfort creole cuisine, and a whole lot more: an extensive selection of microbrews, live music on weekends, karaoke on Saturday nights, a weekend brunch, a colossal humidor filled with fine cigars.
- kitchen open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. Tuesday through Sunday; bar open until 2 a.m. Tuesday through Thursday, until 4 a.m. Friday and Saturday
Old Louisville's newest restaurant, outdoes its predecessor "Leander's" at the same location.
If it's Friday, bottles of wine are half-price. If it's Sunday, the brunch is accompanied by classical guitar music — which is replaced by bluegrass on Sunday nights. On Monday nights, pasta dishes are half-price. Tuesday, it's the burgers that are on sale.
As with the events, CarlyRae's maintains a number of menus — six, by my count: one for lunch, one for dinner, one for summer, one for the bar, one for weekend brunch, and yet another for children.
Any item on the summer menu can be supplemented with a skewer of shrimp for $3.99, and these grilled shrimp were a delight: plump, pink, tender jumbos. But it was odd to find them naked on a plate with none of the customary decorative niceties, not even a sprig of parsley or a wedge of lemon.
A house-made blackberry cobbler ($5.99) had none of that trouble, however; it was nicely done, and hot enough to melt a scoop of vanilla ice cream.
Comments By Customers
Carly Rae's is on my block. I keep going here, and I keep wanting to have a good experience.
I found luck once sitting in the busy bar area on a Friday night. The bartender was attentive, the drinks were tasty with the pour generous, and the food was hot and quick if not average. The dining room, well, you're better off just staying out of there, and you can tell that others feel the same way as you sit amidst its vast emptiness. How are the doors still open? Your food will be right off the menu of some world-renown Sysco chef, and you'll be stunned considering what you're paying for it.
