{"id":208189,"date":"2025-03-25T10:14:50","date_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:14:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/?p=208189"},"modified":"2025-03-25T10:15:00","modified_gmt":"2025-03-25T14:15:00","slug":"get-a-taste-of-history-at-the-brown-hotel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gardenandgun.com\/articles\/get-a-taste-of-history-at-the-brown-hotel","title":{"rendered":"Get a Taste of History at the Brown Hotel"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>Where: <\/strong>Louisville, Kentucky<br><strong>When: <\/strong>year-round<br><strong>If you like: <\/strong>dining and drinks<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Why you should go: <\/strong>Louisville\u2019s <a href=\"http:\/\/brownhotel.com\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>Brown Hotel<\/strong><\/a> was once home to the South\u2019s most sought-after midnight snack: an open-faced sandwich layered with turkey breast, tomato, two slices of bacon, and Mornay sauce, popped under a broiler to make it warm and melty. Chef Fred Schmidt devised the Hot Brown in 1926 after growing tired of serving ham and eggs in the wee hours of the hotel\u2019s grand, thousand-guest dinner dances. A century later, the Brown Hotel still hosts revelers under the hand-painted plaster ceilings of its famed Crystal Ballroom, but the Hot Brown abounds at breakfast, lunch, and dinner. (Just head to the Lobby Bar &amp; Grill or J. Graham\u2019s Caf\u00e9.) \u201cIt really is a decadent dish,\u201d says Marc Salmon, the hotel\u2019s human resources director and resident historian. \u201cIt arrives sizzling in a ceramic skillet, and it lives up to the expectations.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>G&amp;G tip: <\/strong>If you\u2019re in town for the Kentucky Derby this year, the Brown\u2019s lobby will be decked out in roses, and a milliner named Madame Foo Foo will be on hand to craft last-minute hats.<\/p>\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Long live the Hot Brown, a sandwich with grand beginnings<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":84,"featured_media":209998,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"apple_news_api_created_at":"2025-03-25T14:14:54Z","apple_news_api_id":"f1cac4b8-6f6d-4052-a61e-2a37eb64d145","apple_news_api_modified_at":"2025-03-25T14:14:54Z","apple_news_api_revision":"AAAAAAAAAAD\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/w==","apple_news_api_share_url":"https:\/\/apple.news\/A8crEuG9tQFKmHio362TRRQ","apple_news_cover_media_provider":"image","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_cover_video_id":0,"apple_news_cover_video_url":"","apple_news_cover_embedwebvideo_url":"","apple_news_is_hidden":"","apple_news_is_paid":"","apple_news_is_preview":"","apple_news_is_sponsored":"","apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":[],"apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1785],"tags":[30537,351,30482,619,30501],"authors":[29332],"issue":[],"recipe-type":[],"class_list":["post-208189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-travel","tag-dining-drinks-2","tag-kentucky","tag-southern-bucket-list","tag-travel","tag-year-round","authors-lindsey-liles"],"acf":[],"apple_news_notices":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v25.4 (Yoast SEO v25.4) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Get a Taste of History at the Brown Hotel &#8211; 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