John W. wrote:I did this. I've been planning for it for months and here I am finally. I start a new job down here next week. We technically live in Shively -- found a house with a big old yard on this side of town and we love it. Our mortgage payment costs about as much as a two-bedroom apartment would in Chicago.
So... two things: where can I get a good haircut and where do I go to get some good pizza?
Wick's, Za's, and Impellizerri's--all on Bardstown Road (though Wick's might technically be on Baxter, which Bardstown turns into) all have huge, delicious, expensive pies. Tony Boombozz is also good.
I suggest, however, that you get on Dixie Highway heading south, away from the city. Driving from Shively, you'll pass Rockford Lane, Upper Hunters Trace, and ultimately Greenwood Road (White Castle on the corner--this is the street my high school is on: Pleasure Ridge Park). Just past Greenwood, still traveling on Dixie, look to your left for Bonnie & Clyde's Pizza Parlor. It used to be a Shakey's and likely still has a player piano. It still has solid thin-crust pizza, and the ambience, unchanged since I attended post-little leaugue football game parties in the mid-1970's. It'll blow your mind.
Also, you need to check out Mike Linnig's, which is on River Road a bit south of Greenwood. Good heart-stopping fried fish and seafood, cool old-school atmosphere (it's been there since 1938), and you can walk over the levee to the Ohio River.
Bon appetit! And welcome to the 'ville!