Red Hot Roasters

if you've got a slow saturday morning ahead of you and no particular reason to rush, lexington road is a reasonable place to let that unfold. red hot roasters sits at 1399 lexington rd in louisville's cherokee triangle area, close enough to cherokee park that you can picture the walk before or after. they roast their own coffee, which means what ends up in your cup started as a decision made here, not somewhere upstream in a supply chain you'll never see. louisville's specialty scene has grown a lot in the past decade, and red hot has stayed well regarded through that whole period, which takes more consistency than it sounds. if you're deciding between a cortado and something longer and slower on a weekend, this is the kind of place where that's genuinely a real choice worth making.