Indiana

Some meals come with a menu, and some come with a plate and a challenge. On the east…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 3

Some families in Indiana skip the big kitchen cleanup and head out for holiday dinner instead. The best…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 3

Some of the best Friday dinners in Indiana are served in halls with folding tables, flag displays, and…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 3

Some towns have a kitchen table everyone seems to share, and in Goshen it sits on the south…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 2

Some restaurants hand over a menu and a check, and that is the end of it. One small…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 2

Indiana winters have a way of sending people looking for something hot, filling, and familiar. For a lot…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 2

Some restaurants win people over with fancy signs and big ad budgets. Others do it one plate at…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 2

Some of the best fried chicken in Indianapolis does not come with a fancy sign or a long…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 2

Some diners are easy to miss, and this one almost hides in plain sight. It sits on a…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 2

Some Indiana restaurants come and go faster than a lunch rush, but one dining room in Jasper has…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 1

Some meals are worth planning a whole afternoon around, and Indianapolis has one that keeps pulling people across…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 1

Some of the best meals in Indiana hide a few miles off the highway, in towns most drivers…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 1

Some diners serve food, and some diners serve a little bit of the past with every plate. Across…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 1

Some restaurants grow bigger every decade. One little Fort Wayne spot did the opposite and simply stayed small,…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 1

Drive into almost any courthouse town in Southern Indiana and you will find one. It is the diner…

By Rachel Collins · Nov 1

Most ice cream stands in Indiana pull down their shutters once the corn is harvested. A handful of…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 31

Some meals are worth an hour on the highway, and a small family-run kitchen in South Bend has…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 31

Some dinners are just meals, and some feel like a small getaway. On a quiet stretch near the…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 31

Union City sits right on the Indiana and Ohio line, and it is not the first town most…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 31

Some restaurants chase trends. Others simply keep the doors open, the pits busy, and the ribs coming for…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 31

Some of the best dinners in Indianapolis happen away from the downtown crowds, on a quiet corner where…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 31

Retirement can bring a quiet question nobody warns you about: who will you spend your days with now?…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 30

Brooklyn natives are famously hard to impress when it comes to sandwiches. They grew up with corner bodegas,…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 30

Every college town has that one breakfast spot people argue about, and Bloomington settled the argument a long…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 30

Some places in Indianapolis serve lunch, and a few serve a whole decade along with it. On the…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 30

Peru, Indiana is known as the Circus City, but the mornings here have their own kind of show.…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 30

Some restaurants chase trends, and some just keep doing the thing they know best. On the east side…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 30

Some people plan road trips around mountains or beaches. Others plan them around a plate of fried chicken…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 29

Cold Indiana mornings call for a warm booth, a hot cup of coffee, and a plate big enough…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 29

Indiana has two big pockets of Amish country, one up north near Middlebury and Shipshewana and another down…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 29

Some of the best meals in small-town Indiana come in a paper box and get eaten in a…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 29

Some of the best meals in small-town Indiana come from places that do not look like much from…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 29

Breakfast out used to be the cheap meal, and in a few Indiana diners it still is. Eggs,…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 29

Indiana still has spots where you can sit on a spinning stool and order a chocolate malt at…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 28

Some places on the map refuse to let the calendar boss them around. On the west side of…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 28

Some appetizers are polite. The one at the center of this story is not, and people drive four…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 28

Some places in downtown Lafayette have been around a long time, and one of them has been open…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 28

Some Saturday plans need an alarm clock, and this one rewards the early riser with a cinnamon roll.…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 28

Horses once lived in the building where people now celebrate anniversaries and birthdays in Terre Haute. The old…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 28