Local food page celebrates 9 years on Facebook

Local food page celebrates 9 years on Facebook today.

The popular local Facebook food page Fingers, Fork, Knife, and Spoon Evansville is celebrating its ninth anniversary. Founded by local businessman Brian Buxton, the page began as a way to share Buxton’s dining adventures. His friends would take interest in the photos, menus, and restaurants in different cities, and Buxton soon realized that he could do the same for businesses and restaurants in the Evansville area.

Being a small business owner and self-employed from age 11, Buxton wanted to support and champion the restaurants that made Evansville so interesting and unique, as well as educate people on “hidden gem” restaurants they may pass by daily, but never realize what’s behind the front door.

FFKS began with 400 followers and today is close to welcoming 32,000. It is the largest food-related page in the area that solely publishes original content. The page started as a review page and has grown into the local authority for food and dining news, restaurant reviews, a source for breaking news on restaurant openings and closings, news on dining events, restaurant history and more.  Buxton is a real estate investor, gentleman farmer, and the owner and publisher of News4U magazine.  He has been published on national websites incl. www.GoPetFriendly.com for his “Dining with Dogs” column, which outlines all of the local restaurants in the Evansville area (and a second for Louisville, KY) where your companion animal can accompany you on restaurant patios.  There are over 127 in Evansville alone (https://www.facebook.com/share/p/12F21d5Dmvn/)

Buxton co-organized and hosted Evansville Restaurant Week, has written for Evansville Living Magazine, the Courier & Press, News4U, and was a co-host of Taste Tuesdays on Channel 44 with Gretchin Irons for 4+ years.  Buxton has been a guest on several local podcasts and hosts a “Sunday Sitdown” Facebook Live on Sunday evenings where he discusses post from the previous week in-depth.

Fingers Fork, Knife and Spoon can be found on Facebook, Instagram and YouTube.