This iconic Kentucky distillery's restaurant is worth a summertime trip

This place has a name you know.

And it’s the kind of place that you’d like to get to know better.

Upon entering the narrow roads leading to James B. Beam Distillery in Clermont, you see the beautiful scenery and you sense the history.

And you see that the recently-renovated campus has some new things up its sleeves, including a “whiskey-forward dining experience unlike anything else,” as is said on the website.

That dining experience, called The Kitchen Table, champions flavors surrounded by the land its on, including menu items such as burgoo, pork rinds, pimento cheese, fried chicken, a hot brown pizza and, for dessert, bourbon balls.

The Kitchen Table, 522 Happy Hollow Road, Clermont, is open 11 a.m. to 5 p.m. Monday and Wednesday-Sunday.

We featured the place in our latest installment of our “Best Thing I Ate This Week,” video series, which you can follow on Instagram.

Reach food reporter Amanda Hancock atahancock@courier-journal.com.