Eiderdown

European-Inspired Southern Comfort Food.

The lawns in front of the tiny houses in Louisville’s Germantown neighborhood are famously tidy. Happily, the atmosphere inside Eiderdown is far more relaxed. A wall-length, hand-carved wooden bar bristles with 21 beer taps. Patrons nestled around wooden trestle tables munch on duck fat-popped popcorn or warm pretzel sticks with mustard as they sip their pints. Regionally sourced ingredients...

Serves German and European-influenced comfort food with local-to-Louisville ingredients like duck-fat popcorn, lamb kebab, and Kentucky country ham sandwich. Tight space is as snug as the food—mark 2010 as the year restaurants with exposed brick and reclaimed wood made it to Louisville. Same owners and emphasis on quality beer as popular Nachbar, but with entirely different selection (although...

Louisville has some really great neighborhoods, from the West Main Historic District to Old Louisville and Portland , the Germantown area is just another addition to this town. One of the best restaurants in the neighborhood is definitely Eiderdown. Here the kitchen serves innovative plates with creative names like the Mayor of Milk Street which is the grass-fed strip loin, a duck confit and...

European-Inspired Southern Comfort Food.