07 | October | 2009 | Mid-Michigan Dining

Chick-fil-A – South Bend, IN

7 10 2009

4555 S. Michigan Avenue
South Bend, IN 46614
(574) 968-0351
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Chick-fil-A on Michigan Street in South Bend, IN

Chick-fil-A on Michigan Avenue in South Bend, IN

Getting closer. The final day of our honeymoon started awfully early in the morning. We got up and got going because we wanted to go apartment hunting in Kalamazoo. Since it was still a four hour drive from Indianapolis to Kalamazoo, we got on the road early.

Around South Bend, we started getting hungry. All week we had been saying we needed to top at a Chick-fil-A for lunch. We hadn’t up until this point and South Bend was probably going to be our last chance. J took out the GPS to see if there was one close and there just so happened to be one right near our next turn

Let me backtrack a little bit with the whole Chick-fil-A thing. For whatever reason, a couple guys I used to work with loved the place. There was one location in Bloomington, IL on the campus of Illinois State University in one of the resident hall dining rooms. We had a recent college grad working with us who lived in Bloomington and periodically, she would treat the guys to Chick-fil-A. I never got it. It’s like Sonic to me. It looked, smelled, and tasted like fast food. Read the rest of this entry »

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Skyline Chili – W. 86th St., Indianapolis

7 10 2009

3524 W. W. 86th Street
Indianapolis, IN 46268
(317) 872-2266
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Skyline Chili on W. 86th Street in Indianapolis, Indiana.

Our trip was winding down and we needed one more hotel before making our way back to Mid-Michigan. We initially planned on driving the whole way back to Lansing because I was supposed to work on Friday. That got cancelled so we decided to break the nine-hour trip into two parts with a stop over in Indianapolis.

I really didn’t want to spend a lot on a hotel, so I did Priceline. I said I wanted a hotel for $30 and someone took the offer. It wasn’t a four star in downtown, but all we really needed was a place to sleep.

As we were driving to our hotel, we passed a Skyline Chili. Neither of us had ever eaten at one and the only reason I had ever heard of it is because of the Big ‘n Rich song Coming To Your City which has the lyric…

Well we blew through Cincinatti
And we all got really happy
Grabbed a bowl of that Skyline Chili along the way

Since our trip was essentially a country music/BBQ experience, it makes sense that we headed back for some chili.

Skyline Chili has six locations in the Greater Indianapolis area. The one we chose was the location on West 86th Street on the northwest side of town. It’s in a little strip mall just off Michigan Road with a number of other fast food and chain restaurants. Read the rest of this entry »