Louisville's Best Barbecue

Louisville's Best Barbecue Mark Erwin knew that if he wanted to open a barbecue restaurant in Louisville, he'd better have the sauce. So he turned his home kitchen into a barbecue laboratory, mixing, mingling, stirring, and simmering for more than a month.... More

Louisville's Best Barbecue Mark Erwin knew that if he wanted to open a barbecue restaurant in Louisville, he'd better have the sauce. So he turned his home kitchen into a barbecue laboratory, mixing, mingling, stirring, and simmering for more than a month. The result was a tangy mixture of red tomatoes, black pepper, and yellow turmeric-a sauce that any selfrespecting slab of ribs would be proud to wear. With homemade sauce in hand, Mark opened his restaurant in 1988. Pretty soon barbecue enthusiasts from across Kentucky were following the smoke signals to Mark's Feed Store in Middletown, a Louisville suburb. Now after nine years and three more Feed Stores, Mark's sauce still has lips smacking and tongues wagging. His eateries have been voted Louisville's best barbecue places for three years in a row. After a recent visit to the Bardstown Road location, a friend and I jumped on the bandwagon. Like the other Feed Stores, the Bardstown branch has a comfortable country-come-to-town atmosp Less