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Press picks, until locals rank their own Top 5s. Sourced from the local food press. As seen in LEO Weekly and Food & Dining Magazine. Updated August 2026.
Le Relais Restaurant · Bowman Field
A 1940s art deco room inside the Bowman Field terminal, French for more than twenty five years and now cooking in a more approachable bistro register. Robin Garr's review notes the prices came down without the class going with them, and you can still watch small planes land from the table.
Brasserie Provence · Louisville
Comfort cooking from the south of France, with French onion soup, quiche meridionale, steak frites and creme brulee on a menu that does not chase trends. LEO's Restaurant Week feature makes the case that this is the closest thing Louisville has to an everyday brasserie, and it eats that way.
La Pâtisserie Française · Highlands
A traditional French bakery working in classic pastry and viennoiserie, named among the city's standout bake shops in LEO's roundup of Louisville's most beautiful pastries. Croissants, tarts and eclairs are done the old way, which means you should get there before the case has been picked over.
M. Peppers · Highlands
Chef Andrew McCabe and restaurateur Ryan Rogers built this room in the Bellwether Hotel as an homage to classic French cooking and as a neighborhood place to gather, and it succeeded Nostalgic in the same space. Dinner runs nightly with brunch on the weekend, and the bar holds its own.