Wife and I are both Air Force and members of a legion in Michigan…read more Stopped a few times before and had great service but had only sat at the bar for dinner, that is until this last and final visit. We love their fish fry; so we thought, what a great way to end the week by supporting them. Made the drive only to be purposely skipped multiple times with eye contact by the server. We sat at the table in the center by the window in the bar. 3 other tables were occupied and were cashing out. 2 tables left within the 20 minutes we sat there. The 4 people at the 3rd table were having a laugh and conversation with the server, who had cleared the other tables before sitting for a chat with them. She got up and left to attend another table who had just sat down..... She looked at us each time she walked by. What was it? Our young age of early 50s, our attire; too fancy for you? Is it because we don't smoke? Because we aren't toting oxygen around? Is it because we are educated? Is it because my love and I have a great conversation with each other while waiting to be served? We tip... boy, do we tip.. usually 30%. We love to take care of our servers when they deserve it. The legions are suffering and needing young members. Well, you just lost 2, and we will deter everyone we know, here, verbally, and on social media.

Best a polish in South Bend, IN I love this place! Help them…read moresurvive!!!!2nd and 4th Sunday of each month unless posted differently.

Thankful for the love and kindness Rescue from my destress…read more Amazing compassion to ensure my safety

Officers were pretty nice. The handcuffs were kinda tight tho but i wont complain. The car was…read morepretty cozy however when we arrived to the station the concrete chair wasnt so cozy. They wanted me to walk in a straight line but i told them i was tripping on acid. They just laughed at me. I dont remember much but i did wake up in the hospital so it was sweet of them to take me to the hospital saved me an ambulance bill ayyyy Now we besties bc they now own me for a year(-: 1/10 would not get arrested again

Grotto of the Lady of Lourdes is a historic college landmark. I've been to the University of Notre…read moreDame on many occasions over the years. I've also visited during every season of the year. I'm not sure I would return in the winter as it is brutal weather. I always visit the grotto when I tour the campus. Naturally I light a candle for my hearts desire at the time I visit. I remember praying for my daughter to get a job when she graduated! The story of the miracle at the grotto is one of my favorites. If you're interested they made a movie. It's called The Song of Bernadette. One of my favorite religious films. Visiting the Grotto is always a Five Star Experience for me as is any place on the University of Notre Dame Campus.

If you are in the area, make sure to stop and check out the grotto at ND, it's a beautiful place…read more It's fashioned after the grotto in Lourdes, and is a place that I think all faiths could visit. Stop here to pray, and make sure that you light a candle as well, there are also prayer services.

I wish I could give zero stars. My daughter was traveling on Greyhound Bus route number US0164…read more There was an Indian male passenger wearing a blue shirt and jeans with gray hair that sat next to her, placed his hand on her thigh multiple times, despite being told to stop and his hand being moved. He then proceeded to expose himself and masturbate. The driver was notified and he did not notify the police. We called Greyhound and we were informed that all complaints had to be submitted online.

I intended to take bus bus home after visiting friends at a different college than the one i go to…read more I was supposed to have a bus back to MY college at 7:55pm. My bus never showed up, and i waited an hour for the bus. I will NEVER take a greyhound or Miller bus ever again. I am stranded and have no way to get back, and i am unsure if i take that same bus ride back tomorrow. No refund either. Not a good experience.

Running a little late...have a rented Mercury Marquis....V-6 baby...let's open her up....0-85 in…read moreabout 10 seconds...I loved it. BTW..the Mercury Marquis looks like a mafia car..think Buick from the old mafia movies. So back to the story.....85 on Interstate 80...I noticed the car behind me slow down dramatically...I speed up...then I see him...Indiana State Trooper in the opposite lane...in my rear view he busts a u-turn....I slow down to 70, but he pulls me over. I give him my license and he asks if its a rental...I say yes. My bro and father all start to argue about what we should do. My bro says we should shoot the shit with the cop...my dad says not to make a scene and DO NOT TELL MOM....the whole time they are arguing I keep saying in a calm voice..."We aren't going to get a ticket..I have a good feeling about this..." No one hears me. After about 10 minutes the cop comes back and tells us.... "So I noticed you guys are from San Diego..you going to the game?" All three of us in unison... "Yes" "Well although I live in South Bend. I HATE Notre Dame. You guys think you can pull it out?" All three of us in unison...."We'll give it our best shot!" "Sounds good...I'm going to let you off with a warning. Slow it down and raise hell tomorrow." All three of us in unison..."Thanks alot...GO STATE" Very professional and they are sneaky as hell! Keep up the good work gents!!!

Why do Indiana state troopers always have such an arrogant attitude? Also, I wish I could be as…read morelucky as the reviewer from San Diego. These assholes have ticketed me for going 6 miles over the speed limit and a gave me a seatbelt violation when I was moving my truck from a parking space 100 ft away to the front of a hardware store to load up bags of salt. This past weekend takes the cake dealing with these bozos. A foot of snow had fallen and we were still getting more and I needed to meet a coworker at the Notre dame toll road exit. I got accidentally stuck in some snow on the side of the road at the exit while i was waiting. This super cool state trooper drove over to me when he saw I was stuck. Did he offer assistance? Hell no. He used his loud speaker without getting out of his car to ask me why i got stuck in the now. Yes genius, I meant to do it and by the way, thanks for your help. He eventually left, I'm sure he had to get to the donut shop or get his crew cut trimmed up. The Indiana state police have never given me help when I needed and are always very rude with an arrogant attitude.

Am here at this library as we speak, writing my little reviews. I give this place a 5 because it is…read moreso pristine. No unemployed dirty panhandlers like at the downtown branch, and no mothers with 4 kids screaming while they are on the computer. Maybe a tad smaller then some of the other branches, but the decor is like I am in someones private book collection. Very user friendly. And is is in such a private, almost secret location, over in the corner by the gas pumps by the Meijers store on Cleveland. Be nice to yourself. Read a book everyday. Help America be smart!

Coordinated Harassment? Utility Dept was a no call, no show for die test to determine if my vacant…read morelot is connected to sewer. In the mean time the Building Dept. says they don't show it as having sewer connection on the day of the scheduled die test I was told the 2nd time. The person even called the utility dept. to inform them in my presence. She was asked "what I was doing in their office?" This means if you are not interested in knowing for sure the details they certainly could careless about accuracy. My experience with them is you keep talking to the and nothing gets resolved. I scheduled and appointment and kept my end of the agreement - why didn't the South Bend Municipal Utilities show up? Now they sending a bill - unitemized and it cannot possibly reflect the charges from my time of ownership...

I lived in South Bend for almost two years at the beginning of the century, and I have visited at…read moreleast once a year (usually twice) every year since then, with the exception of 2020. I've seen South Bend change for the better and worse over that time, and while I don't spend enough time here truly to know its daily inner-workings, I have very civically engaged friends who have lived here for more than fifty years, and my regular visits show me a lot, kind of like how a person you see only a few times a year will probably notice how much weight you've lost (or gained) more than the people you see every day. It's a difficult place to describe if you're not familiar with midsize Rust Belt cities. Its glory years are long behind it, but it has spent the better part of the past four decades trying to figure out what it wants to be. It still doesn't know, but it has thankfully stopped chasing its past. Downtown is still underutilized, but it's getting better. Downtown is almost gentrification-proof, so almost any additions to it are welcomed by most. (The same cannot be said for my dear old Northeast neighborhood, which has gentrified beyond recognition, sadly.) But you'll always be disappointed in Downtown South Bend, even if you're pleasantly surprised by not being as disappointed as you expected to be. South Bend does parks really well, and the recent addition to Leeper Park and especially the rebuilding of Howard Park are reasons to visit all the parks around town. Contrary to popular opinion, the University of Notre Dame isn't actually within the city limits of South Bend; Notre Dame is in an unincorporated portion of St. Joseph County called Notre Dame, Indiana, and it controls its area with an iron fist. Sadly, while Notre Dame has benefited in myriad ways from South Bend being just across Angela Boulevard from its campus, the same cannot be said honestly for South Bend. South Bend gives and gives and gives to Notre Dame, and Notre Dame, like the rich neighbor it is, throws some crumbs South Bend's way while it pats itself on the back for its miserly contributions. Most students who move off campus now live east, north, and northeast of campus, which is to say not in South Bend. South Bend used to have a real college-town student-townie relationship with Notre Dame, but even that unequal relationship is rarer these days. The South Bend Police are generally rude and unhelpful, in my personal experience. The public-transportation options, the few that exist, are uniformly dreadful. (It wasn't until recently that the buses ran on Sundays!) It has a cute airport that doubles as the terminus of the South Shore Line, which is fun to take to Chicago, but if you live here, you're probably going to need a car. The weather is awful, but if you didn't know that, that's kind of on you. Yes, South Bend gets tons of lake-effect snow, and its winters are cold, long, and dismal. The springs can be magical, and the beginning of summers too. But I hated the summer humidity--I know, I'm a wuss. The very best season, though, is autumn, and not just because of Notre Dame football and hockey and basketball. The city services that I dealt with seemed competent but not particularly friendly or customer-service-oriented. They have some nice musical and theatrical events Downtown, but Notre Dame tends to have more, so if you live in South Bend or anywhere in Michiana (the name of the region), you'll have access to more things than in most random Rust Belt cities. In most cases, a city is defined by its people, and while many South Bend residents don't stick around long because they're chasing academic and professional opportunities elsewhere--or just buying cheap land in Granger because they've made a lot of money and want to pay fewer taxes--there is a remarkably large population that sticks around and makes the city the welcoming place that it is. Many of the city's poor wouldn't be able to afford to move elsewhere, but there are also middle- and upper-class residents who moved to South Bend at one point and chose to make it their permanent home. Part of this group of (mostly) graying do-gooders is particularly interested in resettling refugees throughout Michiana. Yes, there are quite a few refugees in Michiana, but you'd never know it, because most refugees tend to settle with their countrypeople. It's almost the opposite in South Bend; refugees who are resettled through, for example, Catholic Relief Services are from all over the world, and they're not necessarily Catholic. Because of its ties to Notre Dame, South Bend has at least indirect access to speakers of many languages and international scholars to boot. So it's more melting pot than cloistered community, and all the good and bad that comes with that distinction.