Bloom Magazine
Category: Food/Drink
Restaurant reviews, chef profiles, recipes, wine and beer coverage, and stories celebrating Bloomington’s exceptional local food and drink community.
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Scholars Inn: For Fine Food and Romance
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It might have been made for romance. Secluded, cozy, intimate, the Scholars Inn Gourmet Café and Wine…
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Restaurant Tallent: “A Contemporary American Jewel”
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Big-city restaurant reviewers don’t routinely come down to Bloomington on business, but Chicago Tribune writer Phil Vettel…
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Afghan Food: Exciting, Exotic, Haunting, A Cuisine Worth Trying
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Afghan food tantalizes the American palate like a half-remembered melody, at once exotic and familiar. Flavors we…
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Tasting Menus: When the Chef has Carte Blanche
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Sometimes you just need to leave it to the chef. You would never tell a painter how…
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The Owlery: It’s Hip, It’s Friendly, It’s Vegetarian
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Welcome to the Owlery, a fun and quirky eatery in Bloomington’s Near West Side neighborhood, whose name…
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Nick’s English Hut, Still the Same, Well, Almost
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR In the same Kirkwood Avenue location for 69 years, owned by the same man for 49 of…
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My Thai Cafe: For “Gorgeous” Food & Decor
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR When Jit Carpenter’s health required that she give up her restaurant, Jit’s Thai Cafe, last September, those…
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“Don’t Mess with Lennie’s Menu!” Its Longtime Customers Warn
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It was boredom with the pizza delivery business that got Mease and his then-wife, now partner, Lennie…
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Bloomington Cooking School: Learn from the Pros
BY LEE ANN SANDWEISS If you’ve always wanted to master Tuscan cuisine or bake a perfect loaf of bread, the Bloomington…
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Best Bites
Food Editor Christine Barbour describes ten of her best foodie moments of the past five years. Bloomington is a great…
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