The lore behind one of Louisville's favorite hole in the wall restaurants begins with a gift.

Chase Mucerino's dad heard his son and business partner, Adam Burress, were opening a restaurant and thought they could use a statement piece to hang up. He offered a life-size shark made out of fiber glass, a decorative, grayish item reminiscent of stuffed species born for basements.

When the shark measuring about 10 feet didn’t fit through the door, Mucerino and Burress got a bite of inspiration.

“Let's just hang it on the door and call it Hammerheads,” Burress, 39, told the Courier Journal.

That off-the-cuff decision became a signature part of this divvy restaurant plopped in the middle of the Germantown neighborhood.

“Many eyes have seen that shark and many pictures have been taken in fro

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