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Made fresh
Nothing sits waiting for you. Burgers hit the flat top when you order them, fries drop when you order them, and the sauce pot gets stirred by a person, not a timer. It is slower. It is also the entire point.
About us / Louisville, Kentucky
From our heart to your table.
A family food brand cooking Italian, barbecue and Southern soul food, one event at a time.
Our story
It started the way most good food does.
A family recipe. A pan that was too hot. People who would not get out of the kitchen. The Saucy Heart grew out of cooking for the people around us, and it has kept that shape ever since.
What began as feeding family and friends turned into catering, then festivals, then a line of sauces people kept asking us to bottle. The menu widened along the way because we cook what we love, and we happen to love three very different things: slow smoked barbecue, homemade Italian and Southern soul food.
We never split those into separate businesses. They live under one roof, one crew and one name, and the mix is exactly why people book us. A Saucy Heart table can feed the guest who wants ribs and the guest who wants lasagna without anyone feeling like a compromise.
Made with love. Served with attitude.
The love is in the prep, the recipes and the hours nobody sees. The attitude is what happens when it hits the plate. You need both or it is just food.
The Saucy Heart · Louisville, Kentucky
Three kitchens
The mix is the whole idea.
Most kitchens pick a lane and defend it. We run three, and we run them properly.
Kitchen one
Smokehouse
Low and slow pork, smash burgers with lacy crisp edges, ribeye piled on brioche, and sauce on everything.
Kitchen two
Italian
Family recipe sauce simmered for hours, alfredo made in house, lasagna baked until the top goes gold.
Kitchen three
Southern soul
Fresh cut fries, ice cold sweet tea and the dessert table that empties before anything else.
Where we are headed
Bigger, without getting sloppy.
We started at events and we are still built for them, but the plan does not stop there.
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More catering, more festivalsThe core of the business, and where you will find us most weekends.
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Sauces you can order onlineThe three signature bottles are already in production. The online store is being built.
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A room of our ownA Saucy Heart restaurant is the long game. Same food, same crew, finally with a roof.
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Merch worth wearingPeople keep asking for the heart on a shirt. We are working on it.
Still cooking
Say hello
Ask for Shawn.
Questions about a date, a menu, a festival booking or a case of sauce all go to the same place. You will get a real answer from a real person, usually faster than you expect.
- Phone
- 502 207 3173Call or text, seven days
- Based in
- Louisville, KentuckyTravelling across the area for events
- Delivery
- DoorDash and Uber EatsAvailable when we are serving