I’ve eaten at a lot of places across the Midwest, but there’s something about Indiana restaurants that hits differently. No gimmicks, no trendy concepts, just real food made by real people who’ve been doing it the same way for decades.
Some of these spots have been around longer than most of us have been alive, and locals keep coming back not because of Instagram or food blogs, but because the food is just that good.
I wanted to round up the places that feel most authentically Indiana, the kind where the menu hasn’t changed much, the regulars know the staff by name, and you leave feeling like you actually experienced something…