Tucked away in Huntington, Indiana, sits a tiny diner that has been making waves far beyond state lines for over a century.
Nick’s Kitchen doesn’t look like much from the outside, but inside, they’re serving up breaded pork tenderloin sandwiches so legendary that food lovers from Ohio, Michigan, and Illinois plan entire road trips around them.
This is where Indiana’s most iconic sandwich was born, and people still can’t get enough.
The Birthplace of the Hoosier Pork Tenderloin Sandwich
Back in the early 1900s, a guy named Nick Freienstein had a brilliant idea that would change Indiana food history forever. He is widely credited with breading and frying pork tenderloin at his little diner, creating what became known as the Hoosier pork tenderloin sandwich. Nobody else was doing it quite like Nick…