I had lunch here earlier today and Parker was my server and the service was fantastic! I ordered a…read moreburger and their chicken tenders and the food was amazing, I love the ambiance that they have in Bru! Will gladly eat here again!

My son suggested we try BRU Burger Bar during it visit to IU, and I'm so glad we did…read more Delaney was a delightful server, and was very helpful and knowledgeable, and did not steer us wrong. Interestingly, neither of us ordered a burger, but the wings were fantastic, the fries were super crispy, and the truffle aioli that we dipped them in was house-made and delicious. But the crown jewel of the evening was the honey gochujang chicken sandwich! I can't say enough good things about it. The chicken was tender, the breading was crisp and tasty, the honey gochujang sauce was to die for, and the toppings just brought it all together. Seriously. Get it! Super casual atmosphere. Very friendly. Highly recommended, and we'll definitely be back!

Let's start with the parking.. drive through down town Bloomington at 2pm and it's so hard to find…read moreparking. The college kids are everywhere and the one way streets along with construction makes it a mess. Bub's has parking and the pay meters are cheap. I think it's only a dollar an hour. Bubs is close to downtown without all the inconveniences. At 2pm today, we got right in. We each had a Vanilla Coke and split a burger and fry then followed with ice cream. The burger was delicious and juicy. Sorry, I devoured it too quick to get a picture. We had a great time playing uno while waiting for our food, although it didn't take long to get our food. Our waiter was nice and the restaurant is clean. I do recommend bringing a sweat shirt. It was freezing in there. Also, prices are reasonable. Receipt as pictured.

Came in at about 6p yesterday, Saturday, for the first time…read more Pros - Nice interior, with plenty of seating (and also have outdoor seating. - Burgers had great flavor overall (the seasoning was good) - Homemade buns were super yummy -Sweet potato fries w/marshmellow sauce were great Cons - Prices were a bit steep. For a .25lb elk burger, and half pound steak and egg burger with one side fries, and one sweet potato fries, it was $55. It was good, but a bit pricy for what you get. (Side of fries, or anything else cost extra, fyi) - Eh on the service. Started ok, but went down a little. Be warned you do have to pay to park.

BuffaLouie's is a Bloomington staple that I failed to adequately utilize during my time at IU…read more However, anytime that I go back to visit, this is always a stop on my trip. The wings are simply the best. There's plenty of sauces with different heat levels to choose from. It's a great environment in a prime location on campus. Just expect crowds during games.

Onion Rings: 10/10 -- i would come back just for these!!! the crisp was immaculate and the batter…read morewas so good the onion stayed in tact with each bite. the house sauce was a creamy aoili-like mix which was super yummy too. Buffalo Chicken: 6/10 -- my sister got this and rated it a 6 (because there are no 7s on my scale). for $15+ and no side of fries this was kind of a scam sandwich lol #recessionindicator Sweet Lou's: 6/10 -- heavy on the sweet i was a fool i looooove bbq but their special "q sauce" was a bit like molasses rather than classic bbq. the patty, onion ring, and bacon were perfect but i literally could not taste them without scraping off the sticky sauce. again, $15+ and no side i feel like the flavor wasn't enough for me to recommend this to anyone. Tender & Fries: 6/10 -- what in the walmart brand frozen curly fries without salt nonsense on a plate was this... they got us LOOOOL... great value??? YEAH hard pass!!!! I was visiting my sister and she recommended this place because she had heard about it from fellow IU students. My thoughts: come for the IU memorabilia, and ambience, eat an order of onion rings (maybe sip a beer) while you watch a game and leave! The food was mediocre at best and wayyy overpriced.

Wonderful old school smash burgers!! Must do when in…read moreBloomington!!! Have been eating at Hinkle's for 60 years!!

The smash burgers are really good. Definitely recommend checking this place out. Great service and…read moregreat atmosphere. Brings me back to my childhood.

Delicious food. Cheap drinks. Great service. Ask for Piper. She is really quick and cool.read more

Wow. What happened? This place I swore by not so long ago has taken a serious nosedive…read more Lunch with the kid again. Fun, right? Nope. They were a bit busy but it didn't seem like a huge crowd today. We sat outside again. I knew what I wanted immediately, and placed our order as soon as our waitress came over to greet us. A cheeseburger for the kid, and a pulled pork sandwich for me. I've never had theirs before. And I never will again. And fries. We got fries. The wait was insane. At least a half hour for very simple dishes. The kid got a tiny burger. Beef and bun. No cheese, no ketchup. I had to ask for cheese. Yes. They messed up a cheese burger. Then there was my pulled pork. It was literally inedible. I've since come to learn that it was not reheated properly, so the goo that covered every bit of meat was fat. It was served cold, for some reason, and the way it was presented on the menu, listed under a picture of some yummy browned wings led me to believe it would be a very different - and HOT- sandwich. The server did offer to take it back, but at that point the meal was ruined for me and I didn't trust them to make anything else, or make it quickly. I made it clear I was very unhappy about such a disgusting sandwich. She took all of 10% off my bill. Better than nothing, but a lot less than I was expecting. if this is how they're doing things now, I'm done with this place. Badly overseasoned fries... cold pulled pork... cheeseburger with no cheese... I mean, come on... and based on what little I caught from people at another table, getting food out seemed to be an issue for them. I'm not sure if any other places nearby that aren't just bars serve decent food, but if they do, you can definitely give this place a hard pass. Yuck.

Excellent food, high quality beer & wine, and very friendly service. Glad we came! The stout and…read moreporter with both smooth and flavorful, and the burgers and pork tacos were delectable. Will visit again next we're in town.

Generally this is a great place to go ! We're locals & love the beer & food. The service is hit &…read moremiss. We went for dinner on a Sat (no home games) at 5-pm & over half of the restaurant was empty & we were told if we didn't have a reservation (never in 17-ish yrs have I never had them ask me this) we wouldn't get seated for over an hr. So we left . Very disappointing Uplands!! A coach gives a shoutout on Tv & all of a sudden they can't seat you w/o a reservation ‍

Must stop in and hang at Nick's before any IU event! Excellent interior with historic pictures,…read moreStromboli is on point, and friendly staff makes this place a local gem! Pro Tip: 1st come 1st serve seating! Will be packed before a game

With both of our kids at IU, we came to Bloomington for a visit. I thought a good empty-nest…read moreactivity for my husband and I to start would to become eccentric day drinkers. So for lunch, we headed to our favorite place from when we were both at IU, Nick's. Eager to start our new hobby, I ordered a cosmopolitan and my husband ordered an old fashioned. We also ordered delicious appetizers (mozzarella sticks and mushrooms) and lunch (pizza and a grilled chicken sandwich) from our super friendly waiter. I was about 3/4 of the way through my cosmo and fell asleep. So my new middle-aged hobby ended just as soon as it started. Our waiter brought the check and we paid and tipped generously. The moral of this review: the food is good, the service is fast and friendly, and the drinks are strong. We'll be back again. And again and again. But next time I'm probably having a Diet Coke.

I have been going there for years and always liked it. Service is good. The beer selection is…read moreexcellent, of course and they now have seltzers and liquor which is great. The food is pretty good. Fries are always great and their sliders are the best in town. But here is the bad: for the last year or so, the place stinks! I can only describe it as a burnt, rancid grease smell. It permeates the entire restaurant and sticks to clothes and hair. Don't plan on going anywhere afterward because you will stink. Please do something about the ventilation in the kitchen!

Really cool place - they have a ton of beer to try! Their beer menu (which was fully printed and…read moreavailable at our table - no scanning a QR code or squinting to read a board at the bar) had a whole page of beers by The Tap Brewery, followed by two pages of guest craft beer representing every major type of beer and with some unique options, all on tap. For drinks, cocktails (and a few mocktails) and a smaller selection of wine are also available. I wanted to get beer but I was kind of tempted by the cocktails. My first choice was a flight that included a mix of The Tap beers and guest beers, but the waiter came back after taking the order and told me that they could only do flights with their beers but could let me sample the beers I wanted to try, so I did that, and the samples were probably around 2 oz each so I basically got half a flight. After that, I ended up ordering a real flight of their beer. The Tap beers I tried were: Kill the Lights stout (regular and barrel-aged), Tapenator dark lager, Frost Bite winter ale, Nefarious Nectar blonde. Guest beers: Jacob Leinenkugel white mocha stout, Weihanstephaner Hefeweissbier, BrewDog Winter Staycation. Not going to waste space reviewing all of these, but they were all fantastic. I was really grateful that they let me sample so many! And they also have food. The menu isn't huge but does have some variety, and it's not just basic pub food. I had the ahi tuna crunch bowl and it was pretty good! It kind of had the vibe of stuff thrown together in a poke bowl, but it worked and I thought the fish was done really well. Our waiter was wonderful! He was really friendly and just the right amount of attentive. My friend and I stayed for a while talking after we had paid and he didn't rush us out at all. Granted, it was a pretty quiet night. We both really liked the vibe of the place. I would love to be back soon!

This is a cozy little restaurant just off of Kirkwood Ave. near the IU Bloomington campus. Like…read moremany other Bloomington restaurants, it's a house modified into a sit-down restaurant. I've only ever had the pizza here but it is better than I had originally expected. The dough is fluffy and the cheese and marinara are flavorful. They all blend together very well, and I think the pizza is better here than at Mother Bear's. The building and atmosphere is welcoming and provides space for small or large parties, and though the servers are pulled in several directions at once all the time, they make sure to come back around and check on you often.

We discovered this because of Hard Truth Distillery in Nashville…read more Good is great - pulled pork and pizza Try the Peanut butter Porter. Dee-lish

Pretty impressed! Decided to come here for Saturday lunch with my family and made a reservation…read moreonline at the last minute, but we would have been able to get in without. Without the patio open though, I can see it filling up easily. The atmosphere is fun (board games!) and bright but somewhat industrial with the distillery next door. The staff was friendly and very enthusiastic but just a little overbearing for me. The samples they brought around of two of their spirits (a gin and amaro) were very good and much appreciated. As appealing as the cocktails sounded, I didn't feel like drinking, so I got the Last Call mocktail. I couldn't pick up much 5 spice, but it was still a pleasant and refreshing light drink. I had a sip of my parents' old fashioned and Smokin' in the Girls' Room, and those were both really good - I was really into the lapsang souchong tea-infused rum in the Smokin' in the Girls' Room and would've ordered it for myself if I'd been drinking. To eat, I had a mushroom melt (the veganized version with vegan cheese) with the OMG fries. I really liked the sandwich; I loved the giardiniera and the jus, and you usually can't get that sort of thing in a vegetarian or vegan sandwich, so I was really happy to have it here and thought it was done well. The OMG fries were also really good. I don't like fries if they're plain, but these were heavily seasoned with a delicious spice blend. The vegan version of the fries omits the truffle aioli that they normally come with, but they were plenty flavorful with just ketchup. We shared a Thai tea creme brulee for dessert. I am crazy about Thai tea so I expected to like this, and it was everything I hoped for. The tea flavour was nice and strong, and the tapioca pearls were a nice little enhancement. They do an auto-gratuity of 20% no matter the party size, which I'm not completely opposed to, but I think if you're doing that you at least need to have a note on the menu rather than have the waiter tell you as they're giving you the bill, or better (in my opinion) to just raise the prices by 20% and sell yourself as a no-tipping restaurant. But it wasn't a huge deal in this situation; our waitress was good and we would've left a good tip anyway.

I absolutely loved this place! I went with my best friend and we got the meatballs, deviled eggs,…read moreOMG fries, crème brûlée, steak sandwich and chicken piccata. We had such a great time and the staff was amazing. It was really cute inside and we had an absolute blast. They even offer mocktails for people who don't drink, aka: us!!