English Grill

Home of the Hot Brown.  Had to try while we are in Louisville.
The Brown Hotel and this Grill are nice places.  Clearly a landmark in KY and we had fun reading about the history, not to mention looking at the beautiful horse art.  
The meal was good, without a doubt.   I had the Hot Brown and the Hub had the scallops.  Both were well-prepared, but neither were the finest of its sort.   The watercress salad was excellent with the warm goat cheese cake.   And the chocolate pot for dessert was richly satisfying.
Where the Grill lacked was in service and in timing of the food.  I'm still not really sure who our main server was, as there seemed to be about 4 different ones.  And some random gentleman who stopped by our table that could use work with his story-telling skills.  As for timing, our meal lasted about 3 hours.  Not by our choice...  While I can appreciate a meal "experience", I can't tolerate sitting around for 3 hours waiting 30-35 minutes in between each course, sometimes longer.   The real fault was with dessert.  We waited 40 minutes for the chocolate pot, only to have a server come and let us know that the first one was ruined and they had to start over.  Why weren't we informed earlier?   And why weren't we comp'd for that?   Eventually we did get one, cooked correctly.  However by that time, we were pretty much over it.    
It was a nice one-time experience to go here, but likely wouldn't return.

Excellent food! The pork was to die for and the service was outstanding. Loved the complimentary valet parking as well!

Located within the historic Brown Hotel which was built in 1923. You must order the famous Hot Brown!

Decor was very traditional and historic. Staff friendly. Request that Victoria be your server!

Started off with steamed mussels. I've never had blue cheese with mussels before. Strange taste combo, but good.

Second course was salad with rabbit. This was less memorable.

Main course I ordered the famous Hot Brown. It was very tasty, but sadly I was near full by this time and our hotel did not have a fridge for leftovers.

Here's some history on the Hot Brown:

"In the 1920's, The Brown Hotel drew over 1,200 guests each evening for its dinner dance. In the wee hours of the morning, the guests would grow tired of dancing and retire to the restaurant for a bite to eat. Diners were growing rapidly bored with the traditional ham and eggs, so Chef Fred Schmidt set out to create something new to tempt his guests' palates. His unique creation was an open-faced turkey sandwich with bacon and a delicate Mornay sauce. Exemplifying our unending dedication to serving our guests, The Hot Brown was born!

And now The Hot Brown - a Louisville tradition with worldwide appeal - has been featured in Southern Living Magazine, The Los Angeles Times, NBC's Today Show, The Wall Street Journal, as well as being included as a regular entry in many of the finest cookbooks."