Mama Rosa

The chain-restaurant Mama Rosa used to be here at the corner of Bardstown and Richland in Buechel. Before that, I think it was something called The Rib Tavern. Not sure how long ago Mama Rosa's closed, but the place is visibly empty in the Google Maps street view mode, whose images are often at least a year old.

Master's International Coffee

This place has been gone a few years but their building - at 4806 Bardstown Road - remains unoccupied. Strangely, if you peek in the window (see photo below), everything is still sitting in there gathering dust. If anyone wanted to go into the coffee business, looks like it's all set up and ready go for you right here.

I never went here but I was always curious about it. However, all of us over here at JSH HQ are loyal to Starbucks and the KISS Coffeehouse.




Master International Coffee's old website is long gone, but the Internet Archive has a cached copy of it here.