@vanpastorman Noble Romans has a couple of higher end restaurants. I know if 2, on 106th in Fishers and US31 at Franklin.
I do miss real Godfathers. Two of my high school friends worked there, so they would bring to game night "mistake" pizzas. Unfortunately it turns out the biggest mistake was people ordering anchovies, looking at the pizza and sending it back. Heck, my wedding rehearsal dinner was Bloomington's Godfathers.
@arthur-dent Yep. Noble Roman's "Craft Pizza and Pub" concept they started in 2016 seems to have worked pretty well. The locations (up to 12 now) are nice and pretty well reviewed -- pretty impressive they managed to move themselves up market again. Good for them.
I didn't realize they were founded in Bloomington.
@tammany I have been twice to the Fishers one and thought it was pretty good. I didn't realize there were so many.
Back in the 80s there was a Garcia's pizza in Bloomington. It was really good, was in The Gables. The only ones left are in Champaign.
...Back in the 80s there was a Garcia's pizza in Bloomington. It was really good, was in The Gables...
Used to go there all the time as a student in the late 80s. I didn't have a TV. Roomate and I would go there and each get a slice and watch a small TV they had mounted upstairs in one of the corners. Great pizza!!
I used to visit my brother when he was an IU student (late 80's and early 90's) and he always took me to a couple different Chinese spots that were super good. I think one of them was the Phoenix Dumpling (does that sound familiar?). I don't remember the name of the 2nd restaurant but it was basically an all you can eat situation without it being a buffet. You'd order from the table and they'd bring you a dish, rinse and repeat. We would pig out pretty badly. If you said the name I would probably remember.
This will be specific to Three Rivers and surrounding folks, but Fort Wayne used to have this great chain of pharmacy/convenience stores called "Keltsch." They were like Dollar General before Dollar General was a thing, except better. They had a pharmacist (they were founded by a pharmacist, in fact), but also several aisles of candy, toys, even a small hardware section. You could go in and get aspirin, a model space shuttle, candy cigarettes, and caulk.
The one on my end of town was in the same shopping center as a Rogers, which for old Fort Wayners was the greatest of all grocery stores. Very disappointing when Scott's bought them out, and then turned around and sold out to Kroger. It was the kind of store where they encouraged you to sample while walking through the produce section, and they'd store boxes and milk crates out back so the locals could pick them up and take them home for personal use.
@low-level-flyer if laughing planet was the burrito place in teh castle looking stone building i ate there probably more than anywhere
@low-level-flyer if laughing planet was the burrito place in teh castle looking stone building i ate there probably more than anywhere
I think we're talking about the same place. Corner of Kirkwood and Grant. Great chili too!!
@low-level-flyer if laughing planet was the burrito place in teh castle looking stone building i ate there probably more than anywhere
I think we're talking about the same place. Corner of Kirkwood and Grant. Great chili too!!
Was that the "burritos as big as your head" place?
@low-level-flyer if laughing planet was the burrito place in teh castle looking stone building i ate there probably more than anywhere
I think we're talking about the same place. Corner of Kirkwood and Grant. Great chili too!!
Was that the "burritos as big as your head" place?
Nope, burritos as big as your head is La Bomba. We stopped at one in Laffy a couple of months ago, still really good. It was where Everbowl is now, above Lennie's.
What retail, restaurant, service biz company do you miss most?
I miss browsing the shelves of Blockbuster. Holding the VHS/Dvd’s seemed cool. Was also an excuse to grab some ice cream.
I miss the Blackberry and buying Kodak film. Something cool about grabbing a role of Black and white for the manual camera.
In Bloomington, Whitesides. Best clothing store ever. Also in Bloomington, The Book Nook, corner of Kirkwood and Indiana. Finally, Jerry’s Delicatessen, 10th Street, just west of the intersection of 10th and Indiana. University Sporting Goods and Southern Sporting Goods, both on Walnut, were awesome. As were the hobby store and the record store, also both on Walnut, with names long forgotten.
Can anyone here play this game?
The one place I loved going as a kid was the Virginia Grill at 2512 East Washington Street. Small cafeteria style diner with ready to go items as well as items made to order. They also had personal juke boxes in each booth. Been gone forever, but the old man used to take us there every few months. Awesome comfort foods.
A good friend will bail you out of jail, but your best friend will be sitting next to you in the cell saying "that was f***ing awesome"
From my childhood, growing up in Waynedale which is on the Southside of Fort Wayne, I miss roller dome south. So many fun nights were spent there as a kid. Also Southtown mall, and specifically, the arcade there. We'd ride our bikes there and spend all the quarters we had, specifically on the Turtles game.
I think my kids would have really liked discovery zone. That was a super fun place to go.
We also use to go to Ponderosa buffet after church, which wasn't good food, but it was fun getting everyone together and have fun and laughs (they had a kick ass soft serve ice cream machine).
There's so much more, but those are the first couple that popped into my head.
From my childhood, growing up in Waynedale which is on the Southside of Fort Wayne, I miss roller dome south. So many fun nights were spent there as a kid. Also Southtown mall, and specifically, the arcade there. We'd ride our bikes there and spend all the quarters we had, specifically on the Turtles game.
I think my kids would have really liked discovery zone. That was a super fun place to go.
We also use to go to Ponderosa buffet after church, which wasn't good food, but it was fun getting everyone together and have fun and laughs (they had a kick ass soft serve ice cream machine).
There's so much more, but those are the first couple that popped into my head.
Jim's in Waynedale. The broasted chicken was the best.
Bloomington specific would be Wooden Nickle, Macri's, Peanut Barrel, Pizzago, and now the Lion.
Hope is not optimism, which expects things to turn out well, but something rooted in the conviction that there is good worth working for. - Seamus Heaney, Irish poet and likely Hoosier basketball fan.
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