LEO's Eats with Robin Garr
A pair of roti at the Hub Cafe: Bees Knees and The Wizard
It went down like this:
“Hey, wanna go eat at The Hub?”
“Sure! I’ve been looking forward to that.”
A few minutes later we were whizzing across the new Abraham Lincoln Bridge, and Mary started getting skeptical. “Are you lost? That place is right next to the Comfy Cow. I’m pretty sure that’s Indiana ahead.”
I grinned. “Not that Hub. This is a whole ‘nother Hub.”
And so it was. Let the glitzy new sports bar in Clifton where River City Tire used to be wait for another day. This Hub in Jeffersonville, Indiana, is smaller, funkier and features a one-of-a-kind cuisine for the region: Its offbeat, multi-ethnic bill of fare is built on roti, a tasty Indian flatbread.
Clifton’s Hub is fancy and new. Jeffersonville’s Hub is cozy and old, a smallish clapboard bungalow that fits comfortably into its neighborhood. Its two beige rooms are filled with shiny, polished maplewood tables. Hardwood floors creak unexpectedly underfoot, another old-house quirk, as is the brick chimney rising between the two rooms. Air conditioning was cranked up high the other day, leaving our dining area borderline cold, a condition that co-owner Sam Jones attributed to a powerful new compressor installed to keep the kitchen habitable. Fair enough. Summer’s on its way.
Service is utilitarian: Self-serve fountain drinks (or, if you like, fancy teas or espresso drinks), paper cups and napkins. But fresh daisies in attractive glass vases elevated the mood, as did tap water offered in fancy carafes.
Line up and place your orders at the counter ...
Read the full review on LouisvilleHotBytes,
http://www.louisvillehotbytes.com/?p=5528
See this column also in LEO Weekly:
http://www.leoweekly.com/2016/03/lets-g ... other-hub/
The Hub Cafe
716 E. 10th St.
Jeffersonville, Indiana
(812) 913-1426
http://hubcafe.net
https://facebook.com/thehubcafejeff
Robin Garr's rating: 91 points