Best Restaurants for Dinner in Kentucky

Guest praise · Kentucky

The next meal in Kentucky can begin with a meal with time to enjoy the evening. Our guide to best restaurants for dinner gives that quality a place at the centre of the search. A Kentucky restaurant visit can be the most personal part of the day: a table, a conversation, and a meal chosen together. Dinner gives the day a final restaurant story, from an easy meal with a friend to a reservation that becomes the whole evening. Here, a useful starting point is a morning or midday stop with its own sense of occasion; the right shortlist leaves room to choose for the actual visit. The current list includes restaurants in Hodgenville and Bellevue.

To make your shortlist for Kentucky personal, choose for the people, the occasion, and the kind of dinner you will be glad to have planned. Planning around Lexington-Fayette, Louisville, or another part of Kentucky? Start with where you want to be, then find a table for the occasion. Give the next invitation another possibility with Best for Romantic Dates in Kentucky alongside Best Food in Kentucky. For a wider restaurant discovery beyond Kentucky, follow Best Dinner across the United States.

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#4

Just Hamburgers

Paducah, Kentucky

69.7
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#5

Bunz Burgerz

Louisville, Kentucky

69.2
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#6

W W Cousins Restaurant

St. Matthews, Kentucky

77.6
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#7

J.R. Neighbors

Elizabethtown, Kentucky

74.7
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#8

The Post - Germantown

Louisville, Kentucky

79.9
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#9

Burger Boy Diner

Louisville, Kentucky

77.8
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#10

Just Hamburgers

Paducah, Kentucky

69.7
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#11

Wheated

Louisville, Kentucky

60.9
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#12

SmashD on Frankfort

Louisville, Kentucky

59.2
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#13

Pizzaville Sports Bar

Meadow Vale, Kentucky

79.1
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#14

Boombozz Craft Pizza & Taphouse - Elizabethtown

Elizabethtown, Kentucky

75.4
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#15

New York Pizza Company

Louisville, Kentucky

70.2
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#16

MozzaPi

Anchorage, Kentucky

82.7
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#17

Grind Burger Kitchen

Louisville, Kentucky

79.7
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#18

Rise Up Pizza

Lexington, Kentucky

82.0
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#19

River House Restaurant and Raw Bar

Louisville/Jefferson County metro government (balance), Kentucky

79.3
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#20

Rolling Oven

Lexington, Kentucky

65.5
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#21

Dingbats Pizza

Lexington, Kentucky

72.0
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#22

Home Run Burger

Louisville, Kentucky

77.9
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#23

Bourbon House Pizza

Oakbrook, Kentucky

79.6
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#24

Rosati's Pizza

Lexington, Kentucky

82.0
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#25

Strong's Brick Oven Pizzeria

Union, Kentucky

68.9
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