Bottle & Bond (Bardstown, Kentucky)

Bottle & Bond in Bardstown, Kentucky, is serving a truly authentic Southern-style fried chicken, made with top-notch ingredients and a deft hand. The chicken here is brined; dipped in a buttermilk-egg mixture; and dredged in flour, salt, black pepper, garlic powder, onion powder and cayenne before being fried the old-fashioned way, in a cast-iron skillet. It’s tough to get cast iron fried chicken right, but this place hits the nail on the head.