Indiana

Some dinners come with a menu full of choices, and some come with a plan already set. In…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 27

Fifteen stools. That is the entire indoor seating chart at one of downtown Fort Wayne’s best-loved breakfast counters,…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 27

Some Lafayette families measure time in graduations, weddings, and how many decades they have been ordering from the…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 27

Every Indiana county seat has a courthouse, and almost every courthouse has a cafe nearby where the real…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 27

Indiana was flipping great burgers long before the big chains showed up with their drive-thru menus. Some of…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 27

In a lot of Indiana towns, the busiest place on a Saturday or Sunday morning is not the…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 26

Some Bloomington lunch plans are made weeks ahead, and some are made by habit. Every weekday the doors…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 26

Some places in a small town become part of the weekly routine, the spot where people meet for…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 26

Some suppers just taste better when the menu fits on a placemat and the pie case sits right…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 26

Some highway exits lead to gas stations and nothing more, while others lead to a small town with…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 26

Some Indiana donut shops have a simple rule: when the trays are empty, the day is done. No…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 26

Some breakfast debates in Northwest Indiana get settled over coffee refills, and some never get settled at all.…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 25

Every city has that one restaurant where people stop asking for a menu because they already know what…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 25

Some places in a college town come and go faster than a semester. Others stick around long enough…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 25

Fast food and roller grill hot dogs get old fast when you spend your life on the highway.…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 25

Every small town has a spot where the morning really starts, and it usually involves a coffee counter…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 25

Parke County, Indiana, has more covered bridges than any other county in the country, and it proudly calls…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 25

Some meals taste better when you never leave the driver’s seat. Across Indiana, a handful of old-school drive-ins…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 24

Long before highways crossed Indiana, rivers did the heavy lifting. Towns grew up beside the Wabash, the White,…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 24

Some towns are known for a courthouse or a water tower. Morristown, Indiana, has a better claim to…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 24

Some towns are known for a courthouse or a ballgame, but Winchester, Indiana, is known for a slice.…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 24

Long before the grain elevators get busy, the coffee is already poured in small-town Indiana. Across the state,…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 24

Some Fort Wayne traditions get handed down like a family recipe, and one of them comes wrapped in…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 24

Remember sliding a plastic tray down a metal rail while picking out mashed potatoes, a dinner roll, and…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 23

Some dinners are just meals, and some become the story a couple tells for years. On the northeast…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 23

Some places on the west side of Indianapolis never got the memo that the drive-in era ended. Flip…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 23

Indiana has a sandwich that people will drive across counties to eat, and it is the breaded pork…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 23

Some Indiana traditions show up on the calendar, and some show up at a walk-up window with a…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 23

On weekend afternoons on the north side of Indianapolis, a line forms that has nothing to do with…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 23

Downtown Indianapolis has plenty of places to grab a bite before a big game, but only a few…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 22

Some sandwiches are lunch, and some sandwiches are a whole event stacked between two slices of rye. On…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 22

Pumpkin pie gets most of the attention each fall, but Indiana orchards have a lot more going on…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 22

Some restaurants chase trends, and some stay the same on purpose. In Lafayette, Indiana, one steakhouse has built…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 22

October in Indiana comes with a very specific craving, and it usually involves a paper bag of warm…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 22

Remember feeding quarters into a pinball machine and watching the score climb? Across Indiana, a handful of arcades…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 22

Thanksgiving week has a way of filling every good dining room in Indiana, so the smart move is…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 21

Some Indiana lunch spots never got the memo that the decades kept moving. You still sit on a…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 21

Some breakfast spots are just buildings, but a few in Indiana come with a real sense of the…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 21

Some breakfast spots in northern Indiana never bother with fancy signs or card readers. One of them sits…

By Rachel Collins · Oct 21