There’s a brick building in Louisville’s historic Smoketown neighborhood that houses a soul food sanctuary so authentic, you’ll feel like you’ve been invited to Sunday dinner at your grandmother’s house – assuming your grandmother is a culinary genius with a gift for comfort food that borders on the supernatural.
Shirley Mae’s Cafe isn’t trying to reinvent Southern cuisine with fancy foams or deconstructed classics.
Instead, this beloved institution is preserving it, one perfectly seasoned plate at a time.
And that meatloaf? Let’s just say it might be worth crossing state lines for…