Chaz Rough: Welcome everyone to this edition of lookin@Louisville my name is Chaz.
Stacey Yates: And I am Stacey Yates.
Chaz Rough: Now in this edition we are on Frankfort Avenue and we are at Shiraz which is a great restaurant here at Mediterranean grill. We are going to eating some food here in fact we have grill chicken kabab and some vegetable kebab, great food and we are also going to do some holiday shopping. We are going to go around and you are going to do some shopping, I am going to do some shopping and you are going to tell us a little bit about this area because this is where you grew up.
Stacey Yates: Of course, this is actually the Clifton neighborhood on Frankfort Avenue, I grew up a little out of Crescent Hill, we are going to stand where Frankfort Avenue starts down here the river on River Road it goes all the way up to St. Mathews and start just of couple of unique dining shopping art galleries all kinds of things. We are going to take a look today anything from art, antiques, vintage clothing, jewelry and even pottery which is a lot on the street and we are going to see what we can buy.
Chaz Rough: She is going to go do some shopping, I am going to do some shopping and we are going to go to the Café Classico for Cappuccino and if you have any questions about this podcast or any other podcast you have seen so far, please send us an email at podcast@gotolouisville.com and if you use email our we will send you some cool gotoLouisville, free or else you can come in here and get all that stuff. but for now we are going eat, and then we are going to go shopping and we are going to take you with us too. Let’s take it.
Now one of my favorite place to shop here in Frankfort Avenue is just to drag it, I always come in here and get you really cool stuff. So come on with me we will check out some of the stuff now for the holiday season.
As you see they have got a lot of cool ethnic stuff looks like about African art and they just -- its like a store that has pretty much everything creatively for everyone from all round the world they have these cool little trinkets and clothes. We have hats, my daughter loves the hats I get her. I think I found something for Stacey. I think I may have something for her and this looks like her. Don’t say anything I am going to get this for her as a little holiday gift then when we get cappuccino I will surprise here with this. We will get this now.
Stacey Yates: What a great lunch that was. Now that I have dumped the boys I can do some serious shopping. Fiori is new store, it's literally right next door to Shiraz. Its a florist but also has candles jewelry maybe smell good things so spot it. Okay if you watched our last episode on the Urban Bourbon Trail, you will know how into bourbon I am. So this new discovery I have Kentucky bourbon candles and they are not specific to a particular distilleries, so that's kind of nice for a gift, if you don’t want to show a preference like – you can always. Since they are totally intoxicating and legal, that smells good. I went down and that was a success. I suppose we have some of the --
Chaz Rough: Now we are here with Judy the owner, now it’s a holiday season, we are on Frankfort Avenue what makes 2023 such a unique and special place to come for holiday shopping or shopping in general?
Judy: Because the shops in here offer one of kind of thing you are not going to find anything in here any place else in town.
Chaz Rough: Well I think I am a pretty good shopper because what did I do I found something else for Stacey.
Judy: Chaz I hope, you and your viewers enjoy the holidays and thank you for coming to 2023 I appreciate your business.
Chaz Rough: Right now I am standing in front of Quest Outdoors in Frankfort Avenue and this is a great place to go up here if you are an outdoorsy type of person and you like camping or skiing or kayaking or anything of that nature this is a store to hit while you are in Louisville. So it’s a great place to shop not only for the holidays but for year around. Let’s go in and check what they got.
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