Ditto’s Grill The Art of Figuring it Out

BY CARY STEMLE PHOTOS BY DAN DRY

ou might say Ditto’s Grill and Stevens Deli are the result of a decades-old “recipe” built on random occurrences and big dreams. Start with beef stroganoff. Lots of it.

Add a dash of geography.

Throw in some General Electric and Hollandaise Sauce.

To finish, top with Grade A Shared Experience — in this case, working together in the elite Louisville dining organization called Grisanti Inc.

Mix it up, and y ou get the venerable co-located establishments at 1114 Bardstown Road, still going strong more than 30 years later.

Ditto’s opened on April Fool’s Day 1990, and Stevens & Stevens Food Shop (now Stevens Deli) opened exactly one year later.