Editor's note: This restaurant is on the site of the former La Hacienda. Since the name has changed, we are treating it as a separate restaurant. Our review of La Hacienda will remain online. I recently headed over to the levee to review a restaurant, as one does. Unfortunately, that restaurant wasn't yet open and I had some time constraints. I decided instead to … [Read more...]
Fishya
The Lafayette area has a surprising number of good sushi restaurants given how far we are from the ocean. But it's an overabundance that I won't complain about. I recently went to Fishya — a "hidden" sushi restaurant in the Purdue West Shopping Plaza. Located on McCutcheon Drive, you're not likely to drive by it accidentally, but it's worth making the trip on purpose. Fishya … [Read more...]
The Bryant
In April 1994, the Morris Bryant restaurant in West Lafayette burned down, fell over, and then sank into the swamp. No, wait. That's the Swamp Castle in "Monty Python and the Holy Grail". But the Morris Bryant restaurant did burn and, according to the Journal & Courier, get leveled by a tornado shortly thereafter. At the end of November, the Morris Bryant was reborn as The … [Read more...]
La Hacienda – CLOSED
Editor's note: This restaurant was part of an Indiana chain. It became independent at some point. We have marked this as closed, but you can read our review of La Hacienda El Sol, the new incarnation. I was invited to go to La Hacienda recently by a friend, and I was surprised because I had never heard of this place. Apparently it opened last month in the location … [Read more...]
Town & Gown Bistro
With all the restaurants going out of business in town, I'm excited to see some new life coming to some familiar locations. At some point last spring, I was out running and ran by the building on North River Road that was previously Spurlocks and then, once upon a time, a place I loved called Windows on the Levee. I noticed something about the defunct building... it had flowers … [Read more...]
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