We Ate Our Way Through Downtown Indiana

Zach and I attended the "Taste and Tour of Indiana" fundraiser tonight. That means we got to walk around downtown and sample food from 14 area restaurants. Actually, we only got around to 10 of them. That was the minimum requirement to be entered in the door prize drawing. Plus, that was plenty of food. But what a fantastic evening! For a town of its size, Indiana has an amazing number and variety of restaurants. We tried several places we had never been to, along with some of our favorite eateries. At the end of the evening everyone got to vote for their favorite place. Here's a sampling of what we ate...

• fried chicken "stix" and pepperoni rolls at Canyon Pizza
• chicken parmesan at Spaghetti Bender's
• an assortment of wings and fried zucchini sticks at Murphy's II
• roasted red pepper soup and cheddar pot roast at The Coney
• Indian food at Tandoor (don't even ask me what it was called...something unpronounceable)
• Italian-style baked beans, bruschetta, and meatballs at Nap's
• potato salad and lemon meringue pie at 9th Street Deli
• taquitos, beans, and rice at Cozumel
• spinach artichoke dip, wings, and pizza at H.B. Culpeper's

And the very best: (not just our opinion; it won the popularity award by a landslide)

• tiramisu cake, red velvet cake, chocolate chip cake, butterscotch blondies, capital rolls (their signature cinnamon roll) and gelato at Cafe 701 (They had a whole table of desserts, plus soup and salad. I didn't see anyone eating the soup and salad, though.)

This has apparently been an annual event for the last seven or eight years; we must have just missed it last year. Be sure, we will definitely be doing this tour again next year!