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