Bloom Magazine
Tag: restaurant review
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Scotty’s Brewhouse: Fun Menu, Fun Food, Fun Times
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Unless you are a terminal stick-in-the-mud, the menu at Scotty’s Brewhouse will make you smile. It is…
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Feast Bakery Cafe: Making Tasty Tamales Is a Family Affair
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Not everyone finds inspiration wrapped up in fragrant masa dough and cornhusks, but though Erika Yochum’s Feast…
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The Village Deli, Eat and Get Out—Or Not!
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR You’ve got to love a restaurant whose motto is “eat and get out.” The original Village Deli…
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Like an Old Favorite Song, Patrons Can’t Get Enough of Breakfast at Uptown Café
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It was 1976, Bloomington, Indiana. The food scene was just heating up, and 26-year old Michael Cassady…
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The Trojan Horse, Still Riding High
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR It’s the only live-action food show in town. Stand on the corner of Kirkwood and Walnut and…
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The Story Inn, Well Worth the Ride
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR Story, Indiana, isn’t on the way to much of any place. If you aren’t deliberately going there,…
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The Irish Lion: A True Pub—and Restaurant to Boot
BY CHRISTINE BARBOUR You’ve got to love a restaurant whose signature dish sounds like a warm hug from an Irish…
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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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