Natasha's Bistro & Bar: About Us
The Mission
We are an Art's and Entertainment restaurant and strive to deliver the finest culinary and entertainment experience.
The Food
We serve New American Cuisine which means simply a very broad menu, everything from a fine filet mignon and Kentucky's best chicken pot pie to Asian stir-fry, Italian pasta, pizza, and Lexington best (bison) burger - The Spaceburger.
Lunch
Enjoy a mixture of traditional and original recipes, cultures and flavors prepared daily with fresh high quality healthy ingredients: no trans fats, no canned food, no processed meats. Every weekday we feature a different daily $5 special.
We offer a freshly prepared buffet, which features regional specialties like country baked chicken, meatloaf, chicken pot pie, steaming green beans, Kale greens, creamy macaroni and cheese, as well as fresh salad and other cold items, including coleslaw, fresh fruit, hummus, and baba ghanouj.
Our Sandwich menu includes 10 exciting sandwiches including the house Star burger, Elizabeth's homemade reuben, The cha cha chicken grill.
Dinner
While our evening menu is designed to have something to please everyone - from moderately priced pizza and old favorites like chicken pot pie, the classic traditionals like our downtown steak and grilled salmon, to the healthy gourmets with vegetarian choices and the healthy alternative to the traditional burger - our Bison Space Burger. We also feature a culinary experience for the more adventurous foodies with international flavors like borsht, a Thai Peanut Stir Fry, and Midnight Chicken Curry, and Hungarian Goulash.
The Bar - Fine Wines & Full Bar
We have a full bar featuring the latest mixed drinks, selection of wines, draft and bottle beers. We’re proud to bring to Lexington its’ first wine preservation system. Wine connoisseurs know that the enemies of wine are light, heat, and oxygen. Using nitrogen gas preservation technology and refrigeration The Winekeeper prevents the wine from coming into contact with heat or oxygen for even an instant, allowing us to serve wine, perfect from the first to the last drop, in every glass.
The Venue
There is music, entertainment, theater, great food and drink every night here throughout the year, with the best of local and national touring and headlining performers taking the stage in an intimate setting. It’s talent you can touch!
Natasha’s has hosted a wide variety of acts, including jazz, rock, world, comedy, pop, country, Americana, folk, singer/songwriter, indie rock and blues. Over The Rhine, Punch Brothers, Vienna Teng, Sara Watkins, Michelle Shocked, Richard Shindell, Patty Larkin,and Nellie McKay have all played recently on our stage. There are regular performances by our house favorites "The Bats" a hilarious women’s cabaret and the Johnson Brothers whose performance of "The White Album" is stunning!
As a full restaurant and bar with a unique, listening room experience of a small intimate concert -- we're not a beer hall.
Most of our shows start at 9:00 to allow for a quiet dining room between 5:30 and 9:00. So if you’d like to eat and then see the show make reservations for 7 or 8 and stay for the whole evening. However, the kitchen stays open to 11 on weekends so you can still order food and drink during most shows. Generally we add the cover for the show to your bill. (If you’re just stopping by to enjoy our great food and are leaving before the show you never pay a cover)
For some of our larger audiences we remove the tables and provide theater seating with concessions at the bar.
For national touring artists we sell tickets in advance through our box office.
Natasha’s is very happy to be teaming up with the folks at WUKY our local NPR station with a series of broadcast taped shows of outstanding local and national performers. The “Live On Stage” schedule of the encore broadcasts can be viewed at wuky.org.
Balagula Theatre
Balagula Theatre is a professional quality theatre company and has produced over 50 plays on our stage. Formed in 2003 from a collective of local actors and artists seeking new direction and autonomy of artistic expression. The Balagula Theatre Company considers itself an actor’s theatre with a mission of nurturing talent, believing that only when and where the talent and creativity of the performers is given the fullest opportunity, the audiences enjoy the art and culture of theatre at its best.
The Micro Cinema
Our stage room is fitted with a state of the art digital projector for screening film and hosting power point presentations. The local film society regularly produces the “Show me your Shorts” invitational film festival of short films by emerging new filmmakers.
