by carla griffin » Thu May 03, 2007 6:44 am
[/quote]carla griffin wrote:
What is it with Southern Indiana and the lack of independent restaurants? Is the overhead just so high that only corp chains can afford to go in or what? It seems that with such an obvious absence of mom & pop restaurants that someone would want to fill that need. There used to be a good mexican/latin restaurant in front of Value City - near Apple Annie's- but that's gone; everything else is a chain. WUWT?
Sorry, but this isn't true. RockWall, Bistro New Albany, La Rosita's, Federal Hill Cafe, Onion, Comeback Inn, Mai's Thai ... these are just the places that I drop most of my paycheck monthly. Another, Connor's Place in New Albany, is opening this Friday. Time to get a second job.
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Perhaps what I should have said was there weren't many independents , not any independents. When you look at the %s of chains it seems to be disproportionately high in Southern Indiana. I 've had great meals in most of the restaurants you listed above but since I usually find myself on Veterans Highway while in the middle of running errands, I don't always have time to skip up to Rockwall or over to MaiTai's or Comeback.
Carla
There is one thing more exasperating than a wife who can cook and won't, and that's a wife who can't cook and will. ~Robert Frost