Etcetera Coffee
320 N. 6th St
While Etcetera serves great, fair trade coffee drinks & bubble tea and delicious baked goods made on site, Etcetera is much more – it truly is the central hub for the Lower Town community. Each day of the week you will find a group or two of regulars chatting it up. All the area’s activities are plastered on their windows. Emerging art is exhibited inside. Outside you’ll find an art walk, labyrinth, mural walls, and Vinnie, Etcetera’s orange, back patio tenant.
Newcomer tips: the house blend, Love Buzz, is great and arrive early Saturday morning for the quiche – only available on weekends and sells out fast.
Paducah Beer Werks
301 N. 4th St
Award-winning brewery serving craft beers (including guest taps and a full bar) alongside a dynamic menu of artisan pizzas and burgers with classic and new dishes. PBW is all about community building with local food sources and regional entertainment to bring the best together. Join friends on the patio, at the bar or community table, or in the party room!
Newcomer tip: Todd’s Robust Porter is brilliant, particularly with the Blossom Burger or a 4 Horsemen pizza.
Open Wednesday through Sunday.
Kitchens Cafe
905 Harrison St
For a taste of something special, enjoy lunch at Kitchens Café. Located in the 2D and Graphic Design Building, part of the Paducah School of Art and Design’s Lower Town campus, chef Jessi Fletcher serves casual, regional cuisine with an eclectic flare. Chef Jessi develops her themed weekly menus in connection with activities in the community to add another cultural layer to Lower Town! Kitchens Cafe also caters.
Open Monday through Thursday, 11am to 2pm.
Pinecone Gallery
421 N. 7th St
Mixed media painting, sculpture, murals, printmaking and installations are the focus of most of the work Char Downs creates. She relocated to Kentucky from the San Francisco Bay area in 2004 with her husband, Jay. Char has painted murals in Arizona, Saipan, Hawai’i, California, Florida, and Kentucky and is currently the lead artist for the Quilt City USA®Murals Project.
The gallery is also the Kentucky home for Cherrywood fabrics.
Visit the gallery weekdays, noon to 5pm.
Terra Cottage Studios
514 N. 7th St
Michael (the artist/poet guy) and Victoria (the logistics goddess) Terra have been over the past 25+ years selling Michael’s ceramic art (unapologetic link to our online store). Due to some crummy health issues in his hands, back & shoulder due to getting hit by a bus, Michael is back to his roots of painting and, using his tablet, he has been creating some really wonderful digital paintings. Always the poet, each painting includes one of his original poems. So there you have it…
Visit the studio, most weekdays.
AIR Studio
621 Madison
A.I.R. Studio Paducah, now in its 20th year as an artist residency program, is situated in the heart of the Lower Town Arts District. Since 2004, creatives from around the country and abroad have passed through A.I.R. doors to make the most of the space and a stretch of undistracted time as envisioned by founder Alonzo Davis, himself an artist.
LTNA | Lower Town Neighborhood Association 