Gourmet magazine may now be a thing of history, but the only Terre Haute restaurant ever featured in the legendary food bible is still going strong.
George’s Downtown Cafe, on the south side of Cherry Street near Sixth Street, is in its third decade of serving up comfort food to a broad array of people who grew up with very different ideas of just what comfort food means.
To Abdullah “Albert” Issa, who cooks and runs the restaurant for his brother, George Issa, the food he fondly remembers Grandma making is falafel, …

One of the best stories about the many incarnations of St. Mary’s Supper Club originates in the 1960s. The then-owner wanted to make the rustic roadside structure just west of St. Mary-of-the-Woods College into a full-fledged restaurant and bar. That, of course, required all manner of special permits and tweaked zoning. According to the current co-owner, Chuck Stevenson, the Sisters of Providence volunteered to publicly support their neighbors in the supper club effort — on one condition: “None of the girls from the college were ever to be allowed in,” …

After 13 years, passion for food, dedicated staff, and loyal patrons keep Bella Rossa a staple of diets and downtown.