Chef Richard Sible was chef de cuisine at Garage Bar since joining the restaurant shortly after it opened in 2011. Sible’s dedication to mastering the custom-built wood-fired pizza oven has helped guide the menu at Garage Bar since day one. Garage Bar consistently incorporates local farm’s produce into the menu and showcases a rotating selection of regional country hams. The Garage Bar menu will retain signature dishes like Sweet Corn Pie, Brussels Sprout Pie and Fried Turkey Wings. Sible has been an integral part of Garage Bar’s menu development since before the restaurant’s opening. As executive chef, he expects the menu to retain the same spirit that Garage Bar guests have come to know and love, with the gradual introduction of new menu items that draw inspiration from responsibly sourced ingredients.
Award-winning Hospitality Group Promotes Richard Sible PRESS RELEASE – 21c Museum Hotels, the award-winning boutique hotel, contemporary art museum and restaurant group, is proud to announce the appointment of Richard Sible as executive chef of Garage Bar, located in downtown Louisville’s NuLu or East Market District. Sible has been chef de cuisine at Garage Bar since joining the restaurant shortly after it opened in … Continued
The Chicago Tribune talks Derby dinning hot spots featuring Garage Bar’s eccentric, art-filled ambience as one of their top picks. Apparently the Windy City has a soft spot for our signature thin crust pies.
Food & Wine touts East Market Street as a restaurant mecca well worth a trip to Louisville. Garage Bar is hailed as the best pizza place in town namely due to the unique crust (compliments of the wood-fired oven) and signature milled tomato sauce (so good!)
Food & Wine recently showcased the national artisanal pizza trend, region by region. (Road trip anyone?!) Representing “the South,” Garage Bar and chef Michael Paley were noted as serving Italian-meets-Southern pizzas, illustrated by a photo of one of Garage Bar’s pies.
Bon Appetit highlights Chef Michael Paley’s recipe for wilted greens salad in their Southern Recipe Revival, remarking that “Paley embraces the Southern notion that salad is way more than lettuce with vinaigrette.”
Garage Bar received a manly mention in GQ as a place to grab a “mean Margherita” in the manliest town in the USA. Ladies, don’t fret, your pizza loving ways are also at home at the Garage!
Southern Living dubbed Garage Bar Chef Michael Paley a tastemaker in Louisville’s Bourbon and local-foods renaissance. Garage Bar’s country ham and butternut squash pizza rounded out the “perfect eating day” in Louisville. We agree!
Marty Rosen, the restaurant critic at the Courier-Journal, gave Garage Bar three and a half out four stars! Rosen calls out the sweet corn pizza as “stunning” and describes the rolled oysters as “Plump, ultrafresh oysters rolled in cracker crumbs and fried until they become sublime, juicy fritters…” Hungry?!
Thanks to Steve Coomes of Insider Louisville for the kind words. Hope to see you in again soon!
Michelle Jones shares her first glance into Garage Bar.
