Too bad. No Indiana restaurants in the list of the best 50 in the world. Not being an expert in anything but my own tastes, I'd never attempt to name the "best" restaurants in Fort Wayne. But I always have my current favorites. Right now, they'd include the Rib Room (if you like a certain kind of food, you find the place that makes it the way you like it, and nothing else will do; I'm amazed by the people who actually like Ziffles), Casa's on Fairfield (best place on my way home for carryout) and the Gas House (actually, the Saloon side), one of the few good places to go on a Sunday evening. For bar food, I'd have to list the Acme. I had several out-of-town visitors last week and ended up with groups there twice; everyone was amazed at the variety of food a neighborhood tavern could offer.
Hmmmn. It occurs to me that people will read my list and wonder if I ever get out of the same old neighborhood. Well, here's one: Bravo's, a fabulous Italian restaurant in a strip mall on 86th Street on the nortwest side of Indianapolis; best steak I ever had in that city -- and that's speaking as a longtime fan of St. Elmo's.
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Yeah, but who actually eats at places like this? Nobody I know. When I travel, I prefer to eat street food or other local favorites rather than hoity-toity places.
As for me, it's been almost 9 years since I moved from Indiana. But I usually get back at least once a year. And of all the restaurants in Fort Wayne, there's only one "MUST" -- Coney Island.
I've been around the world and never had anything like them. The closest was a little hole in the wall in Providence, Rhode Island.
When you say hoity-toity, I presume you mean Bravo's and not the Rib Room or Acme Bar. I'm also a fan of Coney Island, but recommend as an occasional alternative The Stand at the Bobeck golf complex on Bluffton Road. I especially like what they call the Waynedale, a coney with cole slaw on top.
Wow, a slaw dog in the north?? Who would have thought?
Anyway, you are right ... I don't consider the Rib Room or the Acme hoity-toity. They are great places too, with wonderful histories.
Never been to Bravo's, so I don't know if it's hoity-toity or not!
Oh, and I almost forgot Power's ... a classic experience in every sense of the word!!
When I was on the Big Brothers/Big Sisters board, we took turns ordering lunch for the monthly meeting. For my turn once, I got us a "Fort Wayne Lunch": Coneys, Powers, Bun bars and Seyfert's potato chips. I had board members calling me days later saying they still had indigestion.
Providence, RI, huh? Bristol, RI checking in here. I'm curious as to the place Jim found here in the Ocean State.