Venue Information

Located in an historic old home on Oak Street where Temple Bodley cherished letters of the George Rogers Clark family, where from the second floor the Stites family watched boats ply Oak Street in 1937, "The Rud" preserves old brick, art glass, woodwork, and traditional Kentucky recipes blended with new music, theater, warmth and welcome.

We want to be your "great good place"--the French cafe, the German beer garden, the hangout of your youth--where you will be comforted and refreshed in body and spirit. We offer fresh wholegrain PIZZA CRUSTs, unique soups, Kentucky cuisine (with our famous burgoo, soupbeans and cornbread, Boonesborough snappy cheese, Hickory jalapeno Bucketown blackberry dressing); Bloody Mary, sangria, imported beers... and, of course... live music and t classic and avant garde theatre!