At Potable Curmudgeon: "NABC joins forces with Taco Punk at Bank Street Brewhouse in downtown New Albany."

Today's lead story is at Potable Curmudgeon.

I've been coy about this out of necessity. There have been many details suitable for ironing, and we wanted to see how the pop-up kitchen would go. It's all very ad hoc and informal to this point, which suits us both.

However, the possibilities are too promising not to proceed on a limited weekend basis, so hop over to PC and get the full scoop.

The PC: NABC joins forces with Taco Punk at Bank Street Brewhouse in downtown New Albany.

... Eventually Gabe and I began chatting, and the impromptu collaboration we devised on the fly began with two encouraging “pop-up” weekends in November. Now that the trial run has concluded, we’re ready to see if we can make this combination into something more of an expended engagement, so look for Taco Punk at Bank Street Brewhouse on Friday and Saturday evenings from now on (except Saturday, December 6, when a private party is booked), with the strong possibility that Thursdays will be added to the mix in January.

Over in NuLu, "Some interesting potential tenants consider former Taco Punk space."

If one cares to wade through Insider Louisville's breathless, self-congratulatory, business-fluffing BS verbiage, there's a genuinely interesting snippet about Taco Punk's recently vacated space in NuLu.

The Closing Bell: Some interesting potential tenants consider former Taco Punk space

 ... The site of the recently closed Taco Punk is popping up on the radars of a lot of restaurateurs and retailers, says Bill Marzian, who owns the NuLu property. He said it hasn’t even been formally listed, but there has been ample interest from people both within Louisville and from other cities.

NuLu gets the ink, but maybe there are other places ... other ways ... in which to nurture a concept.

Taco Punk has "stuff to sell" ... and I know some of you are looking to buy.

The bad news surely is the loss of a dream, but the consoling good news is that the good concept and operational methodology remain in Gabe Sowder's head, and can be reconstituted in the future ... or not; the food business is such an unpredictable thing, and at least when the Bank Street Brewhouse kitchen was closed, we didn't have to go through the sell-off of equipment and fixtures.

I'm posting this because I know for a fact that several New Albany restaurateurs are looking for items like these. Gabe can be reached via Facebook.

Everything must go at the former Taco Punk on East Market, by David Serchuk (Insider Louisville)

It’s hard to see someone’s dream go under, but it must be even harder for that person when the process of ending the dream is prolonged. This is the situation in which the former owners of Taco Punk on East Market now find themselves. The business has closed, but they’re not quite ready to vacate the premises, because there is still so much stuff left to sell.

The former restaurant remains filled with empty tables, along with the trademark red vinyl chairs and stools that filled the space. Though they held an open-house sale earlier today, there are many items left to purchase , said Dana Andriot, wife of owner and chef Gabe Sowder.

Dear Taco Punk: Come on over to the West Bank. I have a kitchen, you know.

Back when Taco Punk launched its Kickstarter campaign, Eater Louisville's then-kingpin Zach Everson was giving Taco Punk a very hard time.

Now Gabe's tacos, Zach and Eater itself all are gone. Time passes much too quickly when we're together eating ... and drinking.

Taco Punk chef/owner Gabe Sowder announces closing, cites traffic snarls related to bridge construction, by Terry Boyd (Insider Louisville)

Taco Punk is closing … again. This time, it sounds like it’s for real.

Gabe Sowder and his crew, who’ve been with him through thick and thin during three years, have posted the restaurant will close Friday, Oct. 3.

Affluent and influential urban audience chortles as Eater Wonka savages indie restaurant.

Seemingly every water cooler conversation in Louisville continues to be dominated by the closing of Lynn’s Paradise Café, but surely the shelf life’s end draws mercifully near on that thread, requiring the foodie cognoscenti to search for a new target.

And the lucky winner is Taco Punk, a year-old NuLu eatery, at least if we’re to judge by the acrimonious attention being paid it at a web site of recent vintage called Eater Louisville. Eater is a food and dining news aggregator, now incorporating some original content, and currently all of its barrels are firing at Taco Punk.

You may be wondering why. Has Taco Punk poisoned customers, mistreated servers, refused to honor discount dining coupons or forgotten to advertise at Eater Louisville?

Well, no, not exactly.

Rather, Taco Punk is guilty of the unpardonable sin of crowd sourcing at Kickstarter, and for this breach of commercial etiquette (get that, Edna, there’s roolz in commerce now), Eater Louisville now harnesses its inner Wonka, snidely suggesting that Taco Punk’s contributors will be subsidizing $10 taco platters and fluffing a business owner who won’t go borrow money the old-fashioned, interest-accrued way. Like Hassan.

As someone also in the food and drink business, who currently is servicing about a million dollars more in loans than Hassan, perhaps it would be easy for me to cop a derisory attitude, jerk my knee, and join Eater Wonka in mocking Taco Punk, but you know what? There’s no reason to do so, whether on my part as a restaurant owner, or of a restaurant critic’s, or on the part of restaurant patrons, who do not have one of this nation’s over-abundance of guns pointed at their heads lest they refuse to contribute to Taco Punk, eat at Taco Punk, or even think about Taco Punk when the Eater Wonka avatar appears on their Twitter feed.

Taco Punk will sink, or it will swim. Give Taco Punk money if you want, or eat there more often (I haven’t been once, and I don’t know the owner), or do nothing at all. The free market will take care of this whole situation, won’t it?

Yes, it will, so tell me: What’s the big deal, anyway?

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