Hearthstone Coffee House & Pub
8235 E. 116th St.
Fishers, Indiana 46038
http://www.hearthstonecoffee.com

For months in the Fall of 2011, I drove past the Hearthstone location in Fishers and watched its slow transformation. Opening just after this past Christmas, I have been looking forward to it giving Fishers a new local gathering place a try. Their Facebook page is active and there are constantly new photos posted showing this place to be busy in the evenings with live entertainment multiple nights each week along with trivia nights and open mic nights. For St. Patrick’s Day, Jameson shots will be the special with no minors after 4:00 PM. When the Starbuck’s drive through was packed, I decided to stop by and give Hearthstone a try for breakfast.

What I Drank: Large Tanzanian Peaberry Coffee; $2.50.

I like bold “diesel fuel” coffee with enough caffeine to get any sleep-deprived human rolling in the morning and Sumatra at Starbuck’s is usually my choice. I ask what the strongest coffee they had brewed that morning was and the Tanzania was poured for me. At $2.50, it is slightly more expensive than a Venti at Starbucks. However, I would be more than happy to pay that extra any day with the quality of the travel cup their coffee was served in. The container was firm and there was no flex to the lid making you feel like the lid would pop off at any time like a Venti at Starbuck’s. The coffee was bold but smooth and did not have any of that burnt taste you sometimes get from a Starbuck’s. The Tanzania is one of the best cups of black coffee I have had and I will go back for more.

What I Ate: Flatbread Caprese; $2.99.

The Caprese is a toasted flatbread with melted mozzarella, egg white, fresh basil and fresh tomato slice. I am a meat eater but decided to go with the healthier option since I was on my way to work from the gym. The tomato was ripe and fresh and it was toasted just long enough not to make the tomato mushy but still melting the cheese but not allow the egg to get rubbery. I really enjoyed having something different for breakfast that was somewhat healthy.

Would I Buy It Again? Yes. I enjoyed everything that I ordered and the service was friendly and local. Hearthstone fits a unique niche in Fishers providing quality drinks including some interesting specially cocktails, shoots and a wide range of coffee drinks you would find at any other coffee house while offering a limited food menu and keeping the focus to what they do best. Drinks and entertainment. One addition they could provide to their drink menu would be to add and specialize in serving good Irish Coffee. It is one of my favorite drinks and would make it a destination for many people. I sent an email to their owners to see if they offered them and they were just not on the menu or if they would consider adding Irish coffee to the menu. Their website indicates they want feedback and I think it is disappointing that I have not gotten a response. So yes, I would buy it again but will not give it a full endorsement until Irish Coffee hits their menu.

-EatHSE

Granite City Food & Brewery
150 West 96th Street
Indianapolis, Indiana 46290
http://www.gcfb.net/

Every now and then you just feel like eating a huge meal and being fat.  That feeling happens to me more than I’d like, but I try to control it by limiting myself to no more than two giant meals a month.  If I didn’t do that, well, we’ve been there before.

Anyway, I was experiencing one of those moments a while back and that led me to Granite City Food & Brewery for their Sunday Brunch.  I’ve been before and didn’t do a review, but since I’ve told so many friends about this offline, I figured that it was time to share with my blog friends as well.  FYI, WIBIA has been there before to review their non-brunch food items and has been there for brunch as well.

What I Got:  Sunday Brunch; $14.99.

Here’s a link to the menu their brunch offerings on their site, so I’ll spare listing them all out and just hit what I got and took photos of.

When you first arrive, they bring out a plate of caramel rolls and that’s what you see in the picture in the top of this post.  They bring one roll per person and these things are about as big as your head.  If you know anything about nutrition at all, you know that cinnamon rolls are just about the unhealthiest thing in the world, so when you are getting a giant cinnamon roll dripping with warm caramel sauce to start your meal, well, you might as well throw your calorie counts out the window for the day and/or week.  In terms of taste, these things are soft, sweet, gooey and basically the most sinful  and delicious thing you could ever eat in your entire life.  Frankly, you could stop after this and be okay, but I had to get my money’s worth in this meal!

After gorging myself on a caramel roll, plate #1 was a stop at the make-your-own Eggs Benedict station with assorted meats, cheeses and vegetables and as you can see above, I was definitely not shy about my creation.  They have a cook working there that will construct everything to your liking, so I chose a mixing of just about everything they had on the line (by the way, that’s a sausage patty under the poached egg).  Ha!  Unfortunately, while it looks delicious, it really wasn’t all that great.  The hollandaise sauce was flat and since this was a make-your-own station, a lot of the food had been sitting for a while so it wasn’t fresh/crunchy.  It’s too bad too, because when done right, Eggs Benedict is awesome.

Plate #2 wasn’t exactly healthy either.  From top in clockwise direction, you’ve got hickory smoked bacon, biscuits and sausage gravy and then baked reggiano hash browns.  Let’s start with the bacon and I’ll use one word to describe it:  delicious.  First of all, it’s extremely thick and that is awesome.  Secondly, it straddles the line between being too soft and being too crunchy…in other words, perfectly cooked.  The peppery kick from the seasoning added a nice bounce to the bacon and frankly, I can’t say enough good things about it.  Unfortunately, that’s not the case with the biscuits and sausage gravy.  The biscuit was pretty standard, but the gravy was pretty weird.  First of all, it could have used more flour because it wasn’t particularly thick.  Secondly, it had more of a yellow-ish color instead of your traditional white coloring and that was not something that I would ordinarily expect.  As you can see in the picture, there’s also little specs of red and green in the gravy and that comes from the pepper and herb seasoning that they put into the gravy and I can honestly say, I was not a fan.  Peppery and spicy sausage gravy is something I don’t mind…I prefer it in fact, but that is usually a black pepper heat.  The spice in this gravy was more of a red pepper flake spice and zingy (nice word) and I was not a fan of that.  Granite City gets points for trying to be different here, but it just didn’t work.  The last item on the plate is the baked reggiano hash browns and once again, one word describes these:  delicious.  The reggiano makes these things thick and creamy and also adds a nice salty bite to the mix in general.  It also makes them creamy and when you add in the fact that these were baked to add some crunch, you get a bit of heaven.  If I had the recipe for these, I would seriously make them at least once a week because these are the best hash browns that I’ve ever had in my life.

Plate #3 brought one of my favorite foods in the world, prime rib.  In addition to that, in clockwise fashion again, we had garlic mashed potatoes, more baked reggiano hash browns and some salad.  Let’s start with the prime rib…all I can say is that I had such high expectations and left so disappointed.  First of all, as you can see above, they carve it paper thin and that is just ridiculous since this is a buffet and you can have them add more and more prime rib until you get enough.  What a joke.  Dissertation aside, the problem with thinly slicing prime rib is that it ends up with no juices and that affects your product and honestly, the roasts that they are using for their prime rib roast are not particularly high quality anyway.  It lacked flavor and when combining that with thinly slicing it, it really makes this a loser and a huge disappointment in my mind.  The garlic mashed potatoes were good, but there’s not much of a point wasting a lot of time on them.  They were creamy and had a nice garlic kick and I appreciated that.  Outside of that, there’s not a whole lot to say.  I’ve already covered the hash brown, so I’ll just say that there’s a reason they made it to the second plate.  As for the salad, I had to be healthy at some point, right?  LOL.  On a side note, if you manage to sneak up to the carving station while the carver is away, you can cut yourself your own piece of beef so that can get a little extra juice/thickness and not get the shaft like you would from the regular carver.

The Sunday Brunch also had a make-your-own station for waffles and French Toast (the slices are absurdly thick) as well, so you can hit those as well (I have on other trips for the brunch) and the toppings for those include, various jams, syrups, whipped creams, candy toppings (chips, Heath bars, M&M’s, etc.) and it’s definitely a good thing to have for kids or the little kid hiding inside of you.  They also have various other items on their buffet such as sausage links (enormous), pastas, vegetables, pastries, fruits, soups, etc.  Basically, if you attempted to try some of everything, there is no doubt you’d gain fifteen pounds before you exited.

Would I Buy It Again?  Yes, yes, yes, yes, yes.  At $14.99 for a lot high quality food, you really are getting one of the best brunch buffet options that I’ve ever seen (keep in mind that I’ve never been to Las Vegas).  The prime rib may be substandard at best, but the quality of everything else more than makes up for the low quality beef.  Heck, I might even spend $14.99 just to eat one of those sinful caramel rolls again.  Dear lord, I’m drooling on my keyboard now…

FYI, Granite City also offers a Saturday brunch with some different menu items.  It’s more of a stripped down version of Sunday’s and I think it costs less too.  Saturday’s brunch menu has a make-your-own omelet station and that is the primary attraction.  All you need to know though is that they have the caramel rolls and the hash browns on Saturday too, so you’d be more than set no matter what day you choose.

-IndianapolisEater

The Roost
7371 East 116th Street
Fishers, Indiana  46038
http://www.sahms.com/index.php?cID=74

Some of my friends and I have started a tradition within the past couple years where we take it easy on New Year’s Eve and do our partying on New Year’s Day while watching football.  This past New Year’s Day was the second year that we have done that, so naturally after a day of adult beverages, I was feeling the need for a nice, greasy breakfast and that led me to meet my mom and her husband at The Roost in Fishers (part of the local Sahm’s restaurant group).  EatHSE has previously reviewed The Roost, so I felt that I should order something different from what he got so that we can get some blog review variety and that led me to…

What I Got:  Jose Salsa Skillet; $7.69.  ”Two poached eggs served over chorizo sausage, hash browns, fresh salsa, and topped with mozzarella and cheddar cheese.  Served with warm flour tortillas.”

You can’t really tell in my picture because of my expert photography skills and also the way the dish was constructed with everything piled in a skillet (I would estimate it was roughly eight inches in diameter), but I can confirm that all the ingredients listed in the menu description were in fact present.

In terms of taste, a lot of the ingredients were difficult to distinguish (the two different types of cheese, for example), but when all added together this was a tasty dish.  With my tortillas (think one large tortilla cut in half to make two), I made two breakfast “burritos” by scooping the contents of my skillet into each one.  When I bit into my homemade burrito, I immediately tasted the spice of the chorizo and being that spicy food does not affect me in the slightest bit most of the time, I rather enjoyed this little kick.  My next immediate taste was the salsa and I can’t confirm for sure, but I do believe The Roost’s claims that it was fresh because the tomatoes had a nice firmness to them and it felt like they added a little onion and cilantro into the salsa to add a little extra zing.  This was all topped off by the mix of eggs and potatoes and then topped by two gluttonous melted cheeses.  Basically, this was a comfort food classic treat with a hint of Mexican flair and after a long night of consumption, this is a nice mix.  My only complaint is that somehow this dish lacked a bit of salt (I’ve come to like my potato products to be extra salty), but a few shakes of the salt shaker quickly solved that problem.

Would I Buy It Again?  Yes, I would.  A lot of times breakfast can just be a compilation of bland foods thrown together and without the chorizo and salsa, I think this skillet would have fallen victim to that.  But, when you add in those two key components to bring an extra spice and zing to the dish, you really end up with a winner that I would recommend to anyone that can handle a little spice in their life.

-IndianapolisEater

International House of Pancakes
9750 North by Northeast Boulevard
Fishers, Indiana  46037
http://www.ihop.com/

Over the years, I’ve seen a ton of IHOP commercials but have not been to one often (maybe not ever) because the nearest IHOP location to me was at least a twenty minute drive away.  With Denny’s, Bob Evans and Cracker Barrel all within five minutes of my house, I really didn’t have the motivation to drive that far for a similar chain breakfast.  When this IHOP location opened five minutes from my house within the past month, I knew it was time to finally break the seal.

What I Got:  Stuffed French Toast Combo; $7.49. 

Since I’m too lazy to type out the description, I’ll just ”borrow” the text from IHOP’s menu page:  “Cinnamon raisin French toast with a sweet cream filling, crowned with your choice of cool strawberry topping, warm blueberry or cinnamon apple compote and whipped topping. Served with two eggs, hash browns, two bacon strips or two pork sausage links.”  For my purposes, I chose the cinnamon apple compote and the two pork sausage links.

First, let’s go with what I’m going to call the “accoutroments” (i.e. the basic breakfast stuff) in the eggs, hash browns and sausage links.  I got my eggs scrambled and they were pretty much what you’d expect.  It was the same with the hash browns and the sausage links.  There was nothing special or memorable about them and that’s why I didn’t bother to include them in my picture.

The real main attraction of the dish was the Stuffed French Toast.  I’ve had French Toast countless times in my life, but never stuffed French Toast.  I’ve seen countless food programs where they make stuffed french toast and I’ve always wanted to eat my television while watching, so I was pretty excited for this one.  When it was delivered to my table, I thought that while it looked good, I was less than impressed with the size.  It was two small pieces of toast with filling and toppings.  I would have expected two monster pieces of toast when you are trying to make something the star of the show.  Not off to a good start here.

As far as taste was concerned, I would rate it as slightly above average.  The toast was well cooked/toasted and it did taste pretty solid.  It was a little dry for my liking, but that could be fixed with one of IHOP’s five syrup options, which inlude Original, Sugar Free, Blueberry, Strawberry and Butter Pecan.  Perhaps I’m a rube (I am), but I had no idea they offered multiple syrup options.  I tried every single one of them and chose the Butter Pecan because it was weird, yet appealing.  It really did save the dryness of the toast for me.  The sweet cream filling was tasty, but very runny.  I was expecting something a little more solid to hold the toast together.  Still, it wasn’t horrible.  The only true negative in this entire order was the cinnamon apple compote.  I LOVE cinnamon and I especially love cinnamon apple compote, but this did not taste fresh, nor was it warmed up at all.  It was cold and tasted like it had been spooned straight out of the can.  Frankly, it went from me sort of liking this stuffed French Toast to deciding that it was just “blah.”

Would I Buy It Again?  Stuffed French Toast…not from here.  IHOP…yes.  Heck, it’s breakfast and there are a million options, why not go there?  There’s got to be something decent on the menu, right?  For next time, I’ve got my eyes on the breakfast funnel cakes, assuming they still have them when I go.

In terms of IHOP though, it’s pretty much the exact same as Denny’s.  You can get a decent meal for a semi-decent price, but don’t expect any culinary masterpieces…that definitely includes this Stuffed French Toast.  I guess I’ll just have to go back to the drawing board to find another place that does this incredibly appealing dish right.

-IndianapolisEater

Jim Dandy Family Restaurant
2301 Conner Street
Noblesville, IN 46060
http://www.jdrest.com/

I love breakfast.  It is my favorite meal of the day and I am always on the hunt for places that offer something out of the ordinary.  I have driven by the retro looking Jim Dandy in Noblesville countless times and decided to take my family to give it a try.  I am 35 years old and on this morning, I was at least twenty years younger than the rest of the customers.  A busy breakfast on a weekday morning is usually a good sign.  As I sat and observed the surroundings, it was clear that many of the retired customers were on a first name basis with the waitstaff giving the environment the welcoming small-town feel.  Service was outstanding throughout the visit with my coffee never getting less than half full.

A breakfast bar?  Yes, for $5.00, you could have eggs, bacon, pancakes, biscuits and gravy and a variety of other choices.  Although perfect for evaluating a lot of food, we arrived near the end of the breakfast bar hours and fresh food was no longer coming out so I passed and went to the menu.

What We Got:

Denver Omelet $5.99 + $1 for Hash Browns

The Denver is one of just a few specialty omelets on the menu and all omelets come with a choice of pancakes or an English muffin.  I did not want either and would much rather hash browns be one of the options for $5.99 but chose the English muffin in this case.  The English muffin was clearly toasted on the griddle to perfection and went well with my coffee.  In comparison to most breakfast restaurants, the hash brown serving size was small but was thin and had the perfect crispy like crust that make hash browns one of my favorite breakfast foods.  The omelet was also thin the way I like it and had plenty of green pepper but not so much that it overpowered everything else.  The ham used seemed of lunch meat quality, yet it still worked.  I like how Jim Dandy puts some of the ingredients on top of your omelet to sort of dress it.

The only big problem I had with the food was the cheese used.  It is clear from the squares on top that Velveeta-like American processed cheese was used both on the top and on the inside.  I quit eating that kind of cheese years ago and the amount inside made my omelet taste like a Velveeta green pepper omelet and that is not a good thing.

Bacon and Cheese Omelet $5.99

My wife chose her own combination which allows for up to two ingredients that she enjoyed and would buy again.  Of particular note, this omelet had complete strips of bacon placed inside the omelet.  I like this much better than the bacon bits that become hard or crunchy like you sometimes experience at other restaurants.

Pancakes with Syrup and 5 strips of Bacon $3.99

The pancakes were huge, came out steaming hot and were grilled well with a nicely browned on the outside.  The syrup must be the cheapest stuff they can buy and I would have gladly paid an extra fifty cents for thicker syrup that did not taste watered down.  I am not sure I have been anywhere where you get four-to-five strips of bacon in a meal for $3.99.  An excellent value and my two young daughters demolished this meal with delight.

Would I Buy It Again?  Yes, we will be going back to Jim Dandy. If no cheese alternative is available for the omelet, I will go for some of the other well priced menu items or hit the breakfast bar.  Yes, they even have a loyalty card that gets you a stamp for every $5 you spend getting a free meal after $50.  I have also heard the fried chicken is good and would like to give it a try.  Overall, service was excellent and the value was high for a small family to have an affordable breakfast.  I am fearful that as their aging customer base passes away, so will the remaining few local diners in favor of chains that lack character and that small-town local appeal that Jim Dandy still maintains long after the end of its drive-in years many years ago.

-EatHSE

Good Morning Mama’s Cafe
1001 E. 54th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46220
http://www.goodmorningmamas.com

Good Morning Mama’s is a breakfast and lunch only place owned by the same folks that run Mama Carrolla’s Italian restaurant.  Open just 8:00 a.m.  to 2:30 p.m. Tuesday thru Sunday, this place just has to do it right to stay in business.  We tried to get in on a Sunday morning several weeks ago and the wait was crazy, so we passed.  The opportunity presented itself for a late lunch during the week so my wife and I took it.

Once inside I was surprised that the place is pretty darn big.  With the outside patio seating, Good Morning Mama’s can handle a crowd.  I liked the vibe of a dressed-up old gas station with clean, retro décor.

What I Had:  The Full Boat; $8.99.

I was in the mood for breakfast at nearly 1:00 p.m., so I was happy that breakfast is served all day.  The Full Boat consists of two eggs your way, fried potatoes, biscuit with sausage gravy and choice of meat.  Make mine bacon please.  The eggs were perfectly cooked over-easy and the fried potatoes mixed chunky, crispy planks with soft buttery rounds…nice.  I think there were five or six strips of tasty thinly sliced bacon, not a skimpy strip or two.  The sore spot was on the separate place of biscuits and sausage gravy.  The gravy was fine, sort of standard issue sausage gravy as it was good but not anything outstanding.  The biscuit short-circuited the entire plate by being dry and hard.  Not even the hot gravy could soften this thing.  It was late in the day and that may provide a bit of cover for the stale biscuit, but I am surprised that the cook put this thing out for consumption.  It had to be hard to miss how badly this thing was past due.

Would I Buy It Again?  Yes, with hesitation.  Let’s face it, it should not be a stretch for any professional kitchen to deliver a competent breakfast.  While this breakfast was good, the fact that a biscuit of this vintage made it to my table makes me wonder if they are really paying attention, particularly if you only serve breakfast and lunch.  I’ll give this place another try and report back.

-Smokin DB

Author’s note: The black and white picture is not an intentional play on the French word for the color black – “noir.” I simply forgot to change the setting on my phone before I snapped the shot. Whoops.

We just moved out of Broad Ripple to the franchise-happy northern suburbs of Indy and we have been craving that unique kind of experience we could get in our old neighborhood.  So while out on a mission for groceries early Sunday morning, we stopped for breakfast at Tulip Noir, a relatively new breakfast/lunch café near 86^th St and Ditch Rd.  I had heard surprisingly little buzz about this place when it opened other than a few not-so-stellar reviews on other blogs, but I was willing to give it a try.  Most of the complaints I had heard were directed at the service and the atmosphere, which can certainly ruin an experience, but I’ll be the first to admit that the usual restaurant service model does not always sit that well with us.  We tend to prefer the bare minimum in terms of check-ins and chatter, so I often find that we can’t fully judge a restaurant base on their service.

The restaurant itself looks like an advertisement for Ikea or CB2.  Stark white, minimally adorned, yet kind of quaint.  On a bright spring morning, the place was alive with couples, large families and a surprising amount of children, which is odd since some past reviews have lambasted Tulip Noir for not being kid-friendly.  Must be something about drawing on their perfectly white tables.  Everyone in the dining room seemed perfectly comfortable and happy, so I don’t see what all the fuss was about.

We shared a pot of French Press coffee which arrived with a small hourglass timer and instructions from our server.  Some may find this pretentious, but I found it cool.  Their Sunday brunch menu had a surprising amount of choices, but it became obvious quite quickly that Tulip Noir does not strive to compete with Denny’s.  Side dishes (including toast) are a la carte and portion sizes are “restrained.”  This isn’t a greasy spoon diner and should not be judged as such.  There is a definite femininity to the whole experience, but there were plenty of men dining around us.

What I Got: Sam’s Deluxe Eggs Benedict, $8.75.

I wasn’t really in the mood to be weighed down by my breakfast, but the Eggs Benedict looked so enticing.  I opted for the meat-free version as a compromise.  With all that butter and egg yolk, who needs the extra cholesterol?  Not this guy.  Sam’s Deluxe Eggs Benedict consisted of a broccoli-cauliflower fritter, a slice of tomato, a poached egg, hollandaise sauce, fresh peas and a handful of arugula.  Undoubtedly, a Benedict purist would scoff at this unholy abomination.  Frankly, I don’t care!  This was a savory masterpiece (my exact words while chewing).  The fritter on the bottom was so delicious, despite not being terribly crispy.  The egg, MY GOD, the egg.  Folks, I have never had an egg poached so perfectly and I really doubt that you have either.  It was soft, pillowy, and the yolk was beyond perfect.  The hollandaise was so good that I had to steal some toast from my wife to harvest the last of it from my plate in a manner suitable for public view.  Everything worked perfectly and it struck a chord that was music to my ears on that particular morning.

Would I Buy It Again?  Yes.  Yes.  YES! I would’ve paid twice the price for this breakfast.  The ingredients were extremely fresh and so un-muddled that every flavor sang a note that built to a clean and harmonious chord.  I’m gushing here, I know, but this was really good.  My wife enjoyed her breakfast as well, but I’ll be honest that I didn’t take many mental notes about her food.  The service during our visit was perfect.  The stark atmosphere that some find less-than-friendly just provided a blank canvas upon which bright, flavorful food was showcased.  We will be back and we will be bringing people with us next time.

-Indy Food Geek

Omega Restaurant & Pancake House
6161 East 82nd Street
Indianapolis, Indiana  46250

I was in Castleton, looking for breakfast and had narrowed it down to either Denny’s or Omega.  I had coupons for both, but since I had never been to Omega, I decided to give it a shot.  Omega has been open for a couple years and I believe is locally owned by a Greek family.  Since I see Greek family owned diners that get raved about on Diners, Drive-Ins and Dives all the time, I was hoping that I was in for a good meal.

What I Got:  Corned Beef Hash and Eggs, $7.29.  Served with Corned Beef Hash, two eggs, homestyle potatoes and two pancakes (you can get pancakes, toast or biscuit).

My first thought was that this was a lot of food and I was glad for that, because I was very hungry and I knew that this breakfast would fill me up.

Unfortunately, all this breakfast did was fill me up because it certainly did not taste appetizing at all. 

The eggs were rubbery and had essentially no flavor.  I had to salt and pepper the heck out of them to get them to taste like anything resembling food.

The potatoes were soft and mushy, much like you would get if you took some frozen potatoes from the grocery store out of a bag and poured them into a skillet.  In fact, I’m pretty sure that is what they did here.

The pancakes were crunchy and and bland.  For those of you that have eaten or made pancakes before, you know that is not a good sign.  It’s a sign of overcooking.  Obviously they should be fluffy and soft.

As for the “star” of the show, the corned beef hash was mediocre, I guess, but it also tasted just like the corned beef hash that you would get if you scooped it out a can of hash that you can buy at the grocery store.  The only difference was that this hash was cooked on a griddle and had a flaky burn to the top of it.  Unfortunately, much like the eggs and also the potatoes, I had to salt and pepper the heck out of this in order to give it any sort of taste.

Just to top of this “glowing” (sarcasm, of course) review, all of this food was served to me at a lukewarm temperature.  Awesome.

Would I Buy It Again?  No, no, no.  Not in a million years.  Other than the quantity of the food, there was no redeeming quality to anything that was served to me (even my Diet Pepsi was watered down).  This truly was just breakfast slop and I really wish I had gone to Denny’s where the food might not have been much better, but it certainly would have been cheaper.

I really don’t know how a business could stay open as long it has serving this, but somehow they have.  It’s either their good location right in the middle of Castleton or they must have some sort of prize winning dish somewhere else on the menu that I just didn’t find.  Mix that in with the fact that after tax and tip, I paid over $10 for this meal (even with a $2 off coupon) and you have a complete loser in my mind.

By the way, I wasn’t the only one that had a bad meal that day either.  As I was waiting to pay, the manager (maybe he was an owner too, but I have no idea) asked the customer in front of me how his meal was and the customer replied, “the service was slow and our food was cold.”  The manager just shrugged, said “oh” and then ran his credit card through.  Not only did he not apologize or try to make him feel better, but he also had no problems charging the guy full price for the crap that he just ate!  Unreal.  Nice customer service and nice business.

-IndianapolisEater