Kurtz Restaurant
418 E Stephen Foster Ave, Bardstown, KY, 40004
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Address :
418 E Stephen Foster Ave
Bardstown, KY, 40004 - Phone (502) 348-5983
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Specialities
- Takes Reservations : Yes
Delivery : No
Take-out : Yes
Accepts Credit Cards : Yes
Good For : Dinner
Parking : Private Lot
Bike Parking : No
Good for Kids : Yes
Good for Groups : Yes
Attire : Casual
Ambience : Classy
Noise Level : Quiet
Alcohol : Full Bar
Outdoor Seating : No
Wi-Fi : No
Has TV : No
Waiter Service : Yes
Caters : Yes
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Chad D.
This place is amazing!! Cool building and great staff!! We went there hoping to have the fried chicken, but we were too early. Chicken is not served until 4 pm. Instead we tried the Ruben and Kentucky hot brown. Sounds strange but it was delicious. Between the 6 of us, we tried just about every dessert they have. All smiles and groans!!! I tried the biscuit pudding. Awesome. Bread pudding made with biscuits. Yummy!!! We need to back for dinner now!!'
(5)Eric S.
Kurtz was recommended to us by friends as a great place to have a piece of pie. Yum! Coconut meringue and lemon meringue were both excellent. The biscuit pudding is potent but delicious also, and was probably my favorite. I wish someone had ordered the chocolate cream pie so I could have tried it. Next time! For dinner, go for the skillet fried chicken. Moist, crispy, flavorful! It did not have that dripping-with-grease flavor that some fried chicken has. We also had the country ham. Too salty for me, but others liked it. The side garden salads were excellent, especially with the parmesan-peppercorn dressing. Their cole slaw is also very tasty, not too sweet and with the right amount of tang. I'm very glad we stopped here to eat. Give them a try!
(4)Peg G.
Loved the soup and sandwich lunch specials, the salads, and the pie. We did not have dinner, only lunch, so maybe that's why we found the prices to be fair. Also, I see other yelpers comparing this pan fried chicken to deep fried or broasted chicken offered elsewhere. Don't! Pan fried chicken is another thing altogether: crisper, just skin crisped up, no batter as you'd find at KFC. It may seem dry but, to those who love it, it's a superior, more chicken-y product. The service here was excellent: kind, efficient, and way closer to fine dining than the prices and decor and menu would suggest. The menu is a little old fashioned, in keeping with the building and theme. It is very good food but not creative or nouveau. I guess what I'm saying is, if you want fancy food and a date atmosphere, this isn't going to be good enough for you. But if you're traveling and want something better (prettier, cleaner, quieter, more personal) than a diner or a chain restaurant, you'll come away happy.
(4)Erin K.
Southern hospitality and charm at its finest. Our waitress was amazing, the food was fabulous and of course, the bourbon was excellent. I'm so glad we stopped here on our way through.
(5)Lou K.
Just old style home cooking with great service. Very nice menu, I ordered the country ham steak. If you can save room for dessert try but with everything that comes with the meal I dare you. We were started with a large basket of fried cornbread with our soup or salad, and a nice bowl of very tasty pickled beets. Entrees come with 2 sides and a bowl of green beans and ham hocks for the table to share with another basket of rolls. Carla is one of the sweetest waitresses I've ever experienced and just a doll. Don't miss this place when in bardstown.
(5)Chris C.
Good chicken dinner and homestyle food. Great choice for a rehearsal dinner.
(5)Danielle M.
I am from Bardstown and Kurtz has always been a old favorite! Family owned and operated, They do close for a month or two in winter but are a great place for tourists to get a guaranteed great meal with great service! My favorite is to go for lunch and get a soup or salad, sandwich and dessert for less than $10! Their pies are delicious! Atmosphere is more sophisticated, great place to take business associates too!
(5)Bill K.
I apologize to all those who have raved about this place because it is time for a reality check. I went to this restaurant based on Yelpers and it was a let down. To be fair, this was not a disaster by any means but there was little to rave about. When you enter the place it is a bit confusing. Not sure where to go but they came and got us so it was okay. We were seated in the side room where the walls and flowered wall paper seemed to close in on us after a while. No view of anything. The place was very clean but in dire need of an update. I know it is supposed to be Victorian but they could do much better. The waitress was great. Very courteous and attentive. She mentioned the skillet fried chicken that is world renown and went as far as to say it was featured in the NY times. So I had to have it. A 2 piece with mashed potatoes and gravy for $15.95 is a bargain if it lived up to its hype but not even close. Lee's Famous Fried Chicken is much better I'm sorry to say. The breast was over cooked and dry. Very little flavor in the coating and skin. The mashed potatoes were great with a nice country gravy. This meal would be fine at $10 but not $16. My wife had the open faced roast beef. I had a nibble and agreed that it was just meh. Not worth $15. Worth only $9. What was really irritating was that they ding you for everything too on top of their high prices. They provide 2 silver dollar corn bread disc's which were good but small. Get another round and it's $2. A small side salad is $4 since they don't come with the meal. And if you order coffee as well as a drink, add another $1.50 even if you order dessert. In addition we overheard the next table who ordered an appetizer but then wanted to split an entrée and yep, there is a charge for that too. A buck. For dessert I ordered the coconut cream pie which wasnt. It was coconut meringue pie. It was really good but not as expected. My wife ordered the blackberry cobbler ala mode. It was great but missing the cobbler. Overall, this $60 experience should have been around $35 in my opinion. I am but a tourist here so I will only be fooled once. For those who come behind me, be ready to pay good money for average.
(3)Michael H.
Was driving through Kentucky on my move from Texas to Ohio, and figured I'd better make a last stand for some good Southern food, as good food gets scarce when you cross the Ohio. Atmosphere was...interesting. It's located in a cool old stone building which used to be the family home. The interior decorations were dated, with old print wallpaper and tablecloths. I felt like I was back in the 1940s, having dinner at the country club. Not bad, just different. And the speakers were pumping Michael Crawford's greatest hits. Hmm. Kind of weird to be listening to Hello Dolly and Phantom when you're eating Sunday lunch in a fancy place by yourself and you're the only person in the joint. (Not that it's not a busy place, I just got there late and missed the lunch crowd.) But the food. ERMERGERSH! Ordered the fried chicken (duh, what else would I order in Kentucky?) and fried ham combo, and it rocked my face off. Then I had a massive goblet of blackberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream to top it off. Yummers. Everything was excellent. One thing, I was not expecting, though. When I read the meal was served with cornbread, I was expecting hunks of cornbread like you would normally see. But these were little, thin fried slices of cornbread. They were delicious, too, just threw me off when I saw them first. It is a little bit expensive, though, but the food is worth it in my opinion. Worked out fine for me since I ate a massive meal at 3pm and didn't need to get dinner.
(4)Olivia B.
So, they've been serving food for about 80 years...with only limited updates to the interior and whatnot. The first time I ate here was in the early nineties; have periodically visited when in the area over the years. "Dated" does not begin to cover it, and though there's a certain amount of charm inherent in that, there are things that need to change, including how their liquor service is managed. I have to say, they are at their best with their original, informal, country-style food fit for feeding local, down-home folks for a quick meal. Random menu inclusions are rarely successful: Pasta? Shrimp? Fish? Chicken Parm? Steaks? Anything remotely healthy? Yeah, serious fish-out-of-water-territory. I'm, personally, not a fan of their biscuits, either. But their fried chicken, fried ham, and meals with baked apples on top are pretty fair (and these are things I usually wouldn't care for). Frankly, the easiest way for them to merit better reviews would be to clear the chaff out of their current menu: if it's not great (like, "Great-great," not, "Well, ok, edible for rural Kentucky," stop letting people order it. Service is fair and usually attentive, though they can get busy, especially on weekends and during the summer. Prices are in line with independent restaurants; probably low for folks used to more metropolitan areas, but high for local chains. All in all, I wouldn't go out of my way, unless they have a serious sea-level-shift kinda revitalization. Oh, and to the reviewer pissy about showing up at 9 pm for dinner...welcome to the rural South. We close early.
(2)Brian B.
I read the reviews and went for lunch today. Really? I was very disappointed. I don't know if I ordered wrong or not. I had the butter bean soup, chicken salad sandwich and the spinach salad. Bean soup was over cooked. Beans were almost mush, tasteless chicken salad. When they mean 1/2 they mean a child's portion half. I can't believe all of the customers that were flocking in when I was leaving. Maybe I just ordered wrong or my expectations were too high.
(1)Debra E.
The decor and the food were excellent!!! I had the fried chicken and my husband had the combo chicken and ham. We had the yummy bread pudding for dessert.
(5)Jennifer F.
Charming but sadly lacks a bar. And after a day of bourbon tasting, you so need a bar. Had we been fast enough, we would have hightailed it but the water came and we were there. The good news is that they do have a full stocked liquor cabinet and the waitress made a terrific Manhattan. They do carry Kentucky wines which were ok. Now the food - they have the best corn cakes ever and this was just what we needed. The rest of the food...let us say that if you aren't from the south, know before you go that there is really no redeeming healthy thing on the menu except the salad. Famous for thier fried chicken, Kurtz pan fries it and we all agreed, while good, there is better. I had the turkey and ham plate - it was decent but way over salted. Everything was way over salted! Obviously we were the only ones who had issue, the place was packed. We did have the honor of meeting Marilyn, the matriarch of the family who still stops and mingles with the guests. It was a decent experience but one my arteries won't go back for.
(3)Fritz E.
Located near Downtown Bardstown, this location has been serving diners since 1937. While I know the decoration isn't original, it appears fairly original and dated. This place just reminds of so many potentially nice restaurants with a history and owners who've checked out & just trying to cash in on the name, fame and legacy. Spruce it up. Commit to better food. There seem to be a few other restaurants in Downtown Bardstown committing to this strategy and I hope the community is supporting them appropriately. The food was adequate for $9 lunch and $15 average plate dinners. We got there at 4pm and ordered dinner. I had a simple salad with raspberry vinaigrette and the recommended pan friend half chicken with green beans and mashed potatoes & gravy. The salad was OK. The corn bread basket was very different. They were pan prepared and not oven baked - closer to an arepa in flavor without trying. Ask and you will get the simple recipe. Mind you, you would think the owner would get one of their kids or grand kids to inventory the in-stock Bourbon choices, type them up and prepare on some sheet - heck, spend the $2 and have it laminated. Beats the waitress saying, we have all Bourbons, spending a minute or 2 trying to remember them and generally forgetting most of what they have anyway. The pan fried Chicken was tasty but I think the chicken is pre-frozen (something about the bone being dark...). The mashed potatoes & gravy were as standard as possible. I almost ordered the biscuits pudding with some kind of Bourbon syrup but since I wasn't impressed by the lone biscuit in the bread basket, I wasn't going to commit to the dessert.
(2)Richard F.
We ate lunch today with some friends who told us this was a really good place to eat. We had also heard good things but, today I have to disagree. The food was just OK. I ordered a Ruben and a side of potato salad. Most Rubens I've eaten are piled with tender corned beef and a heaping of kraut. This one had a meager portion of meat and hardly any kraut. The meat was also kinda grisley and the potato salad was tasteless. The Hot Brown that my wife has was also just OK.
(2)Rachel F.
Atmosphere alone this place is so perfectly Southern, family owned and quaint. It looks expensive. A beautiful old building, stands alone just down the way from the downtown square, it looks like a family money home. But it is relaxed place with home cooked southern kinda food. Ah. Let's start with the pie. Who cares if that is normally the end of a meal. It is incredible here. And their cobbler - jesus - the blackberry cobbler. As we arrived we were told they were almost out of chess pie. Because A) it is fabulous and B) they make all of their desserts fresh in the morning, so "when it's gone, it's gone." Our table snagged the last two, along with chocolate and coconut cream. I sampled all, you know, for Yelping purposes. Yum. Yum. So the food. They have a lunch special for 7 bucks with pick 2 and pie. My kinda place! I had chicken salad sandwich and spinach salad, trying to be good before being really bad. Though I had food envy when I saw the nice warm soups and the fried cornbread pieces - like slices of bread. I snagged half of my kind and understanding friend's and enjoyed my poppyseed dressing on my salad. The chicken salad was tasty, though I learned that the pimento cheese was where it was at. Maybe the best I've ever had. I shall order it next time. On the toasted bread (it comes out like a grilled cheese) and adding tomatoes. Perfection. So what to take from this? SAVE ROOM for DESSERT!!
(4)Miriam H.
A delightful restaurant with outstanding fried chicken. All the sides were good, too, and the skillet corn bread was a real treat, rather like a thick pancake that was a little crispy on the outside. Service was excellent. They make their own desserts. We tried the blackberry cobbler, bread pudding and lemon meringue pie which were all good. Although there is no bar, they do serve alcohol. The wine list however is not good so if you want alcohol stick to the bourbon! A good choice if you are looking for southern home cooking.
(4)Tim G.
We went there at 9pm on a Friday night and were told they were closed, despite the lights on and the open door. Fail.
(1)Tiffany W.
Some others seem to be daunted by the pricing, but it was reasonable to this Washington based girl. Maybe I'm just use to inflated prices. We got a massive amount of food for what we paid. The skillet cornbread is fantastic! The wait staff was quick and friendly. They even gave us a complimentary eggnog at the end of our meal. Great time for us. (This review was from December 2012, but I didn't finish it apparently! Sorry! Here it is now!)
(5)Whitney B.
My husband and I both got the fried chicken and it definitely did not disappoint! All of the food was delicious! Also the desserts were great! Our waitress was so kind and provided excellent service. We will definitely be back!
(5)Kori Y.
Truly a 5 Star for the Food alone, I could see where the atmosphere and building / decor might make some people rate this place lower, but I'd say remember where you are at. This is a 80 year old Family owned restaurant. This is "southern style cooking at it's best. Good Ole' fired chicken and cornbread. I have never had better fried chicken anywhere. If your ever near Bardstown KY, take time for dinner at this spot.
(5)Kathy M.
This is a cute little restaurant in a historic building. It was a traveling day for us, so we were hoping for a great lunch in a local place. It turns out there is not much of a lunch menu (at least on Sundays), so we had to compromise on our choices. Hubby had the hot roast beef and thought it was great, in fact, he said the mashed potatoes were perfect. Sarah had the chicken tenders and thought they were perfect - very small bites with honey Dijon sauce for dipping. She thought the sauce was also perfect with the fries. I had the grilled chicken salad and fried chicken livers. My salad was more than enough and the livers were a great way to taste the fried chicken aspect of the restaurant. Even though it was a little more than we were looking for in a lunch and it could be considered pricey because of the very limited lunch choices, we were very pleased with our meal and our server, Ann.
(4)Erica D.
This little homestead brings back memories of my grandmothers house. The fried cornbread was my favorite along with the sweet tea. I had the roast beef plate and I wasn't as thrilled about that as it tasted a little "left over" but the staff was very friendly and I have no true complaint.
(4)Rick M.
I didn't have dessert. That might change everything. I had the chicken dinner that everyone raves about. Seriously? Two pieces of dark meat, canned beans, canned beets, gluey potatoes for $14.95? Cracker barrel is better. Claudia Sanders is cheaper and way better. The building is gorgeous, the interior is seriously in need of an update. This feels like a tourist trap. The service is great the food is not and way over priced.
(2)Kris W.
Great home style food! We were just randomly in the area and found it here on Yelp. I had delicious fried chicken and mashed potatoes. The cornbread was the best ever! You won't go wrong picking this if you're looking for home cooking.
(5)Larry B.
They close early on Sunday so we may not have gotten their best. And their liquor license didnt support Sunday. Shrimp coctail very good. Wife had eggplant appetizer. Everyo b e tried a piece all agreed it was the best! Pork chop special was wonderful. Juicy. But green beans were too salty to eat. Beats were great. Fried chicken was good very light on the breading. I had the chopped steak smothered in onions and gravy. Hard to believe but chopped steak was grosly overdone. And very dry despite the gravy. Our friends said they have the best coffee.....NOT! The coconut cream pie was very good. No drinks 4 people $135.00 plus tip.
(3)Pam D.
Would I return for another meal? Yes, but I would ask up front if sugar is in any of the dishes. I was smart enough to ask about the slaw, so I opted out on that. The cooked tomatoes were surprisingly sweet. Being a southern gal, I was not use to having so much sugar in what I consider to be savory food. There was a group if 5 guys next to us. Imagine the surprise of one of them when the spaghetti with meat sauce he ordered had sugar in it. I heard his ask after he had tasted it and the server didn't seem to think it was unusual to have sweet spaghetti and meat sauce. The restaurant's fried chicken was very tasty and I don't think it had any sugar in it. Also the fried cornbread is yummy and served hot. Their veggies were broccoli with cheese sauce, stewed tomatoes (very sweet), slaw with sugar, baked apples with sugar, corn pudding with sugar, excellent green beans, pickled beets, and 3 types of potatoes. The service was great! When asked about dessert, we refused since we felt we had already had it.
(3)MITCH S.
As someone who has to watch what I eat, I always ask myself the question, "is it worth it" and to Kutz's fried chicken I must say , damn right it is worth it. The best fried chicken I have ever eaten. This is the third time I've been here and I swear it only gets better
(5)Matt S.
The best restaurant in Bardstown with the best fried chicken and corn cakes in the world. This place is a real time machine, taking you back to the good ole days. Quaint and classic, with 40s music enchanting you in the background.
(5)Lauren C.
Just say no. After visiting Heaven Hill with friends and asking about a nice place to eat, I obviously checked Yelp for more info on where to have dinner. Yelp led me astray! Kurtz is overpriced and bland with a timid serving staff and tired looking decor. There has got be better in Bardstown...
(2)Tammy Y.
Lunch menu was perfect. Blackberry cobbler was outstanding. Great service and atmosphere.
(5)John T.
The open roast beef sandwich was excellent. My wife said her chicken salad was excellent.I also had a piece of pie that was excellent. We both were very full and pleased. Yankees and food snobs keep on trucking as this place offers southern comfort food salt and all!
(5)Katie L.
The ambiance of this place is incredibly charming and quaint, very lovely. We went on a Sunday afternoon/ early evening and there was only one other table. My table really enjoyed the protein for our meals but the sides we lacking, especially with the type of food it was surprising to find that it was not homemade. The mashed potatoes were not real and the green beans were from a can. The stuffing and dressing we had we good, a tad salty though. We loved the corn cakes. The pork loin, ham, chicken and turkey breast that our table had was all moist and good. The pies were fantastic - a little too much meringue for my taste but it still tasted fantastic.
(3)J R.
What a great find. On the way back to Louisville from the Maker's your, we found this place. Stopped for a late lunch, had a Manhattan and some good home-cooked food. Definitely recommend. They'll fix ya up with a good Manhattan!
(4)Maurice H.
This restaurant gets an upgrade to 4 stars for the excellent service, above average well prepared food and modest prices. Their cole slaw is different and exceptional, fried foods are done well, bourbon choices are plentiful, and desserts are home made good. Family owned for 3 generations with hands on management. My group of 10 had a memorable meal.
(4)A K.
Hmm, the tour bus parked outside should have been my first clue. The girl in costume in the lobby should have been my second. The stains on the table cloth my third. Despite all the makings of an underwhelming dining experience, we proceeded to sit down and eat. I was a bit tired of the fried food popular in this region, so I ordered a chef salad. I received a bed of wilted lettuce with kraft cheese singles on top. Wow. That's not even trying... So why the three star rating? Well, my companion seemed to really enjoy his Kentucky ham. Moral of the story -- don't come here looking for ambiance or salads.
(3)Sanela G.
We stopped in for dinner during the KY Bourbon festival and fell in love with what may be the best pan fried chicken in KY. It was accompanied by a generous portion of most wonderful mashed potatoes with gravy and a side of unfortunately bland green beans. Last but not least a basket of rolls and cornbread come with the food. Skip the rolls entirely but ask for extra cornbread because it is incredible. Make sure to make reservations as the place is tiny and enjoy!
(5)Dean O.
Hubby and I stopped in for lunch after a tour at Heaven Hill. It was about 1:30pm mid-week and not busy. The young man who met us at the door was very courteous and seated us immediately. We had just a few moments to enjoy the ambience and fresh flowers on the table before our waitress appeared inquiring what we would like for drinks. We only drink water with lemon so I cannot comment on the other offerings. We had a few questions about the menu and the waitress was very knowledgeable. After deciding on what we wanted we sat back to wait for our meals. Hubby had about a 3 minute wait before his "congealed" salad appeared. The name is off-putting but it was just a serving of strawberry jello served on a bed of greens with a side of something that looked like mayo. He said the jello was actually very good but decided to leave the mayo-like item on the plate. After a total wait of about 10 minutes our entrees came. I had ordered a spinach salad which arrived in a heaping mound on a smaller dinner plate with bacon strips on the top, a hard-boiled egg and croutons around the edges and a warm poppy seed dressing on the side. The spinach was very fresh; the bacon was crisp and cooked to perfection; the croutons were homemade and a little on the softer side which I like. But the poppy seed dressing was fantastic! Hubby ordered the hot brown because when we travel he tries to eat what is local fare. He said it was good but he's never had it before so had nothing to compare it with. He liked the cheese that was slathered on the top. When I asked him if it would be something he would order again, he said no. Dessert for hubby was a homemade lemon meringue pie which tasted fresh from the oven. My dessert was a blackberry cobbler with vanilla ice cream. Warm and yummy it was the perfect end to the best lunch we've had since visiting Louisville from our home in Upstate NY.
(4)Jason W.
Friendly service, tired decor, poorly lit where we were seated, very overpriced for the quality and quantity of food. Had the butter bean soup as a starter which was good but nothing to write home about, followed by their 1/4 size serving of fried chicken which was accompanied with pickled beets, green beans, mashed potatoes with gravy and their fried cornbread. First of all the serving of chicken- thigh and drumstick was so small as to look like it was from a quail rather than a chicken with hardly any meat. It was cooked to a perfect doneness but I've had better fried chicken from Publix(chain grocery store in the south). The green beans tasted canned but the beets tasted home-made and the fried cornbread was good but not amazing. The mashed potatoes were bland and both my husband and I agreed that they tasted like they were made from an instant mix rather than from fresh potatoes which is inexcusable at a cost of $13.95! So we won't be going back there as at that price point we expect better prepared food than what we got.
(2)matt m.
By far the best place we ate at in Bardstown, and also the closest we found to southern food. The skillet-fried chicken was very good, as were the mashed potatoes. It's a pay-at-the-counter place, and the owner was at the cash register. She said she had been at the restaurant since 1937.
(4)Ryan P.
My food experiences in Bardstown were a letdown until, on my final night, I had a meal at Kurtz. The food, although simple, was well-executed. I went with a skillet fried half-chicken dinner. The skin was nice and crispy, the meat moist. The mashed potatoes/gravy were top notch, and the corn bread was super tasty. All of that was washed down with a nice bourbon. Note: they don't have a printed bourbon list, so if you don't know what to ask for, you'll have to rely on your waiter. I mention that because my waiter started by listing off Jim Beam after I asked if they had Pappy Van Winkle, indicating that she wasn't all too familiar with bourbon qualities. The woman that owns/runs the place (?) was very pleasant and capped off the experience. Overall, this may be the best restaurant in Bardstown.
(4)Rob S.
The menu was disappointing: assorted meat: grilled, baked, with various sauces. However, when I asked them to make a salad with spinach, lettuce, tomatos, and cucumbers, they blew me away with the freshness of the ingredients. The cornbread was the best I've had, aside from homemade. Beer offerings are limited to Budmilloors.
(3)Kevin A.
By far one of the best experiences in Bardstown, maybe the state. The outside stone look instantly gives you a down home feeling, not to mention it overlooks My Old Kentucky Home. Then upon entering you get to see the real family history that goes into the love that is amazing food. The fried chicken is absolutely divine (rumor has it that once Colonel Sanders himself tried to buy this recipe!) it's that good! Not to mention the skillet fried cornbread and homemade pies that take you deep into good ol southern cooking. Absolutely love this restaurant and the family feel that goes into everything brings it all home!
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