Tasting Thursday at Artisan Market: La Bocca, on July 26.

"Artisan Market connects customers with artisans to purchase quality hand craft and speciality food items featuring makers from Indiana and Kentucky."

In August, I'll be representing NABC at this monthly event ... stay tuned.

La Bocca in Louisville Restaurants Forum.

There's a thread at the Forum for La Bocca, New Albany. Here's the opener:

My wife and I visited La Bocca in New Albany last night. We had a very good experience. The food was very good. My wife had a well prepared Chicken Piccata and I had Rigatoni Bolognese. The Bolognese was very light with tomatoes and meat and I enjoyed it. My wife would have preferred, on my meal, a heavier sauce. She enjoyed her meal a great deal.

If you've been, leave a comment and let us know how it was. I've been busy and have not dined at La Bocca yet. Perhaps after the Wisconsin trip.

Note also a fact that we neglected when discussing post-city council options on Mondays: La Rosita. After the new location opens with full bar, and (I trust) NABC on tap ...

Mexitalian: More on La Rosita and La Bocca.

Thanks to Mike Kopp for the photo. The color scheme being used on the exterior of the future La Rosita's makes more sense given the reds and greens in the familiar logo. But, as we know, Israel's food and a three-way alcohol permit (NABC, anyone?) that stand to transform downtown dining, and quite soon.

I've updated this post from earlier today: Connor's Place ceases and will make way for an Italian-themed eatery -- or so we're told. We stopped in at Wick's earlier tonight for Elector and pizza pie (excellent, as always), and Steve Resch came in as we were leaving. He gave us the lowdown on Connor's departure and the advent of this new Italian-style eatery. Mike says the owners are from Staten Island.

Steve, if you're reading: La Boca is Spanish, and La Bocca is Italian. They both mean "the mouth." The reason my searches yielded Buenos Aires and not Rome is because I was searching Spanish, not Italian.

I am pumped. Downtown's about to take another step forward.