As the race horses of the Kentucky Derby took off in Louisville on May 3, Local Flavors, a new restaurant and whiskey and bourbon bar, also hit the ground running with a Derby-style grand opening on the South Hill.
By 3 pm, the restaurant served 150 sandwiches and over 250 mint juleps in an ode to its grand opening’s overlap with Derby Day.
The restaurant shares the same building at 5611 S. Perry St. as Egger’s Specialty Market, a longstanding family liquor store owned by Steven Egger, who also co-owns Local Flavors with Armand Van Pelt. Behind the building stands Egger’s Better Meats and Seafood, founded in 1962 by Egger’s grandfather and now co-owned by Egger’s father and uncle…