Guidebook for Bloomington

Mary Lee
Guidebook for Bloomington

Food Scene

If you'd rather feed with the rich than laugh with the poor, this is the place for you. Best meat in town and you'll pay through the nose for it. You'll also have to pay for parking. Little Zagreb is to Bloomington as St. Elmo is to Indy.
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Janko's Little Zagreb
223 W 6th St
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If you'd rather feed with the rich than laugh with the poor, this is the place for you. Best meat in town and you'll pay through the nose for it. You'll also have to pay for parking. Little Zagreb is to Bloomington as St. Elmo is to Indy.
If you like Starbucks, only nine minutes from house.
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Starbucks
110 S Indiana Ave
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If you like Starbucks, only nine minutes from house.
New west side location has convenient parking and same excellent food, esp. pizza. It's only ten minutes from house, back behind Lowes and right next to I-69.
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Mother Bear's Pizza West
2980 W Whitehall Crossing Blvd
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New west side location has convenient parking and same excellent food, esp. pizza. It's only ten minutes from house, back behind Lowes and right next to I-69.
Nine minutes from house. Cheap Chinese not half bad. Fast. Call ahead and faster. Cash only.
Dragon Express LLC
1400 E 3rd St
Nine minutes from house. Cheap Chinese not half bad. Fast. Call ahead and faster. Cash only.
If you're an old hippy or young boho and love your coffee black and your restaurant dirty and your parking hard to find and dogs under your feet while you eat, this is the place for you.
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Runcible Spoon
412 E 6th St
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If you're an old hippy or young boho and love your coffee black and your restaurant dirty and your parking hard to find and dogs under your feet while you eat, this is the place for you.
BBQ, baked beans, fries, slaw... Free parking.
Smokin' Jack's Rib Shack
505 W 17th St
BBQ, baked beans, fries, slaw... Free parking.
Breakfast and lunch. Big hole in the wall. Popular with west siders. Cheap. Free parking. Cheerful waitresses.
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Cloverleaf Family Restaurant
4023 W 3rd St
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Breakfast and lunch. Big hole in the wall. Popular with west siders. Cheap. Free parking. Cheerful waitresses.
Good gyros. Right on the square. Nice atmosphere. Pay for your parking.
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Trojan Horse
100 E Kirkwood Ave
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Good gyros. Right on the square. Nice atmosphere. Pay for your parking.
Great view of Lake Monroe, good food, indoor and outdoor seating, nice drive there and back. Free parking. Take a walk by the lake across the causeway, afterwards. Don't have to pay there.
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Scenic View Restaurant
4600 State Hwy 446
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Great view of Lake Monroe, good food, indoor and outdoor seating, nice drive there and back. Free parking. Take a walk by the lake across the causeway, afterwards. Don't have to pay there.
Yellow curry and Drunken Man Fried Rice. Eaten here hundreds of times. Nothing has ever been less than stellar. Free parking.
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My Thai Cafe & Sushi Bar
3316 W 3rd St
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Yellow curry and Drunken Man Fried Rice. Eaten here hundreds of times. Nothing has ever been less than stellar. Free parking.
Best restaurant in town. Get their chicken pizza. Get anything, really; it'll be great. Not snooty. Free parking.
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Lennie's and the Bloomington Brewing Co. Brewpub
514 E Kirkwood Ave
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Best restaurant in town. Get their chicken pizza. Get anything, really; it'll be great. Not snooty. Free parking.
Great food, great beer, great atmosphere altho expensive whiskey with two fingers both being pinkies, small outdoor terrace. Everyone loves this place.
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The Irish Lion Restaurant & Pub
212 W Kirkwood Ave
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Great food, great beer, great atmosphere altho expensive whiskey with two fingers both being pinkies, small outdoor terrace. Everyone loves this place.

Parks & Nature

Great and largely unknown hiking park.
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Leonard Springs Nature Park
4685 S Leonard Springs Rd
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Great and largely unknown hiking park.
Walking trails, bike trails, nice frisbee golf course, water park for kids, picnic places, relaxing and only six minutes from house.
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Karst Farm Park
2450 S Endwright Rd
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Walking trails, bike trails, nice frisbee golf course, water park for kids, picnic places, relaxing and only six minutes from house.

Arts & Culture

Gutenberg, Erasmus Greek, Luther, Coverdale, Tyndale, Eliot Bibles; but everything in this library is fascinating. You'll have to pay for parking at the Memorial Union Lot.
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The Lilly Library
1200 E 7th St
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Gutenberg, Erasmus Greek, Luther, Coverdale, Tyndale, Eliot Bibles; but everything in this library is fascinating. You'll have to pay for parking at the Memorial Union Lot.

Shopping

Good selection of cigars, pipes, and tobacco. Comfy smoking room. On the square, so you'll have to pay for your parking.
The Briar & The Burley
101 W Kirkwood Ave
Good selection of cigars, pipes, and tobacco. Comfy smoking room. On the square, so you'll have to pay for your parking.
Because it's the cheapest. Seven minutes from house.
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ALDI
2035 Liberty Dr
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Because it's the cheapest. Seven minutes from house.
For the organic foodie in you. Great deli section. Free parking. Only nine minutes from house.
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Fresh Thyme Farmers Market- Bloomington IN
3600 W 3rd St
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For the organic foodie in you. Great deli section. Free parking. Only nine minutes from house.
Gotta go here. Lots of stuff IU is getting rid of. Furniture. Sports gear. Bikes. Computers. Free parking.
Indiana University Surplus Stores
3050 E Discovery Pkwy
Gotta go here. Lots of stuff IU is getting rid of. Furniture. Sports gear. Bikes. Computers. Free parking.
Seven minutes from house.
Rural King
3201 Indiana 45
Seven minutes from house.
Just off I-69 on IN 45, seven minutes from house.
Sam's Club
Indiana 45
Just off I-69 on IN 45, seven minutes from house.
Someday it will close, but until then it's an institution. On the square, so you have to pay for your parking.
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Caveat Emptor Used Books
112 N Walnut St
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Someday it will close, but until then it's an institution. On the square, so you have to pay for your parking.
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Walmart Supercenter
3313 IN-45
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Everything Else

Best deal in used cars. Most things salvage title, but easily fixed and you save many thousands of dollars. With our family and friends, we've bought over sixty cars from them by now. Drive out there. About twenty minute beautiful drive. Brad, Jeff, or Billy won't do you wrong. Check their inventory out on web.
T & T Repairables
138 Cedar Ln
Best deal in used cars. Most things salvage title, but easily fixed and you save many thousands of dollars. With our family and friends, we've bought over sixty cars from them by now. Drive out there. About twenty minute beautiful drive. Brad, Jeff, or Billy won't do you wrong. Check their inventory out on web.