Helpful hints for red carpet day and afternoon before.

rrah
Sun, 09 Mar 2014 20:18:30 +0000

^^^^As a local, we don’t go to Mother Bear’s as often a we would like simply because of the lack of parking. When we do go it’s typically during the summer when parking is less of an issue.

Probably too late for this weekend, but here are my food recommendations for visits
Breakfast, lunch or dinner–Uptown Cafe (kind of a cajun twist and excellent gumbo)
Bar food with a few Greek items–Trojan Horse I hesitate to recommend Nick’s. I’m kind of old school about the place and hate seeing under 21s in there. The Irish Lion can be hit or miss on the service, most often miss in my experience.
Lunch or Dinner with an emphasis on local food and less pricy than FARM–Lennie’s Brewhouse–good stuff from sandwiches to pasta to pizzas
Burgers–Opie Taylor’s
Sandwich–Dagwoods
Breakfast–Village Deli is okay. I prefer the Uptown.
Pizza–Cafe Pizzaria or Mother Bears. Two different pizza styles, both good.
If you have a car and want Italian go to DeAngelo’s near the mall instead. It’s owned by a former IU football coach. It’s a chain in the south, but he convinced them to let him open a store here. Much better than Gratzi, even with a smaller menu.
Just my opinion on two of the most overrated restaurants in B-ton: Malibu Grill and Gratzi. We used to head to Gratzi fairly often, but we just had bad food too many times. Overcooked pasta and undercooked, still frozen, fish don’t cut it for us. We’ve only been to Malibu Grill once–once was enough to know we weren’t going back.

For a really pricy meal: Janko’s (steaks) or Restaurant Tallent. The chef at Restaurant Tallent was again a runner-up for the James Beard award. I’d also have to put FARM in the pricy, for B-ton, category.