Mark's Feed Store

Barbecue restaurant in Louisville, KY

Address

11422 Shelbyville Rd, Louisville, KY, 40243

Phone

(502) 244-0140

Website

marksfeedstore.com

About Mark's Feed Store

Barbecue restaurant serving pork, brisket, and chicken slowly smoked over hickory wood and finished with house sauces, including the Original Bar-b-q Sauce made from 26 ingredients and a 13-spice blend. Several menu items are trademarked recipes. Beyond dine-in, there is carryout, DoorDash delivery, catering, fundraising support, and a retail section selling bottled sauces and gift cards. Multiple Louisville-area locations.

Founder Mark Erwin opened the restaurant in 1988 after 15 years in the service industry, deciding Louisville needed a serious bar-b-q spot. Lacking barbecue experience, he traveled to Western Kentucky to study with longtime pitmasters, then returned home and developed his own sauces through extensive kitchen experimentation. For the original Middletown location he chose a historic building that had housed Hancock's Feed Store for more than 50 years, and cooked the first pork shoulder in its pits the night before opening.

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