Coming soon: Vinaigrette, Tony's, Marksbury Farm's Pasture

Marksbury Farm in Garrard County is opening a restaurant. Pasture, a quick-service eatery and butcher shop serving burgers, barbecue and sandwiches made with Marksbury's pasture-raised meats, will open March 14, according to partner John-Mark Hack. Pasture will be on U.S. 27 just north of the intersection with Ky. 34 heading into Danville, in front of Marksbury's existing processing facility. Hack said they hope it will be a concept they can open in other spots, too.

■ Vinaigrette Salad Kitchen, which opened in 2014 on Sharkey Way off Leestown Road, will open a second location at The Square in downtown Lexington. Vinaigrette features a selection of healthy salads such as Vegan Power and Orange Blossom, which patrons can customize with meat and dressings. The restaurant uses local ingredients whenever possible. The new Vinaigrette will open at the end of February or beginning of March on Broadway near Urban Outfitters, according to Sandra Duvall, manager at The Square. The restaurant will have a street entrance and an indoor entrance.

Also opening March 6: Tony's Steaks and Seafood, an upscale restaurant facing Triangle Park. With Pies and Pints (See review, Page 8), that makes three new restaurants in the block, which is also home to Saul Good.

■ The Bistro, 502 N. Main Street in Nicholasville, offers a special Valentine's menu Friday and Saturday, including sea bass with tomato concasse and lobster broth and beef tenderloin medallions with bernaise butter. (859) 221-3925

■ For Mardi Gras on Tuesday, Winchell's Restaurant and Sports Bar, 348 Southland Drive, will have crawfish étouffée, chicken and sausage gumbo, red beans and rice with blackened catfish or chicken, fried oysters and king cake. (859) 278-9424

■ For Mardi Gras, all four Ramsey's locations will serve seafood gumbo, red beans and rice, french bread and crayfish. Ramsey's will fly in over a half ton of live crayfish and cook them to order. Balloons, beads, king cake (with free lunch if you get the baby) and costumes on Fat Tuesday. Starts at 11 a.m.

■ Smithtown Seafood, 501 West Sixth Street, will celebrate Fat Tuesday in the West Sixth Brewing Co. Barrel Room with a cash-only oyster bar and Fat Tuesday beer dinner plate with special firkin, $20. Dinner includes beer, duck and andouille gumbo, red beans and rice and maque choux. Smithtown will also serve boudin balls and oysters at the restaurant. (859) 303-4100.

■ Wallace Station Deli, 3854 Old Frankfort Pike outside Midway, on Fat Tuesday will serve red beans and rice, oyster po-boy with spicy remoulade and Pops' pickles, caramel apple bread pudding with bourbon praline sauce and king cake from the Midway School Bakery. Wallace is also serving a Mardi Gras-inspired menu for fried chicken night on Monday, with fried chicken dusted with Cajun spices and served with praline butter, sauteed zucchini and yellow squash, and red beans and rice. Call (859) 846-5161.

■ Fat Tuesday specials at Windy Corner Market and Restaurant, 4595 Bryan Station Road, are Chef Sean's gumbo, crawfish-stuffed fried soft shell crab salad, creole barbecue shrimp with toasted Midway Bakery bread, crawfish-stuffed fried soft shell crab po-boy, shrimp and grits, and Windy Corner étouffée, $12.95.

■ The Fat Tuesday Celebration at Woodford Reserve Distillery is 6:30 to 9:30 p.m. with a Cajun buffet including jambalaya, crawfish, red beans and rice, baby back ribs, maque choux, bourbon slaw, king cake and chocolate bread pudding with Woodford Reserve butter sauce. Dinner includes two Woodford Reserve cocktails and a lantern tour. It's $50 per person, plus tax and gratuity. Reservations are required by calling (859) 879-1953 or emailing catering@b-f.com.

■ On Friday, Unlimited Spirit, 404 Southland Drive, will have tastings from 4:30 to 7 p.m. of Kenwood wines and Jim Beam brands. (859) 361-3580.

This story was originally published February 12, 2015 at 12:54 PM with the headline "Coming soon: Vinaigrette, Tony's, Marksbury Farm's Pasture."