Fiddler's Hearth

What’s more to say than Bushmill’s Irish smoked salmon paired with a pear and walnut salad? It’s so divine! To finish the meal, we like a slice of the Chocolate Oblivion flourless cake. When Nathaniel was 14 years old, he started performing at their open mic night and a few years later he introduced me to Fiddler’s. Through the years it has become a favorite spot of ours. Especially because it was farm-to-table before farm-to-table became a huge trend. We love the charm, food and mystique of Fiddler’s.

Farmhouse Bakery

Farm House Bakery is run by the most joyful folks we know. They haul it hard in the morning, way before the rooster crows. This is the ultimate family-owned and -operated breakfast joint. You can find Dawn and Virgil rolling dough and pinching piecrusts around 4:30am as the smoker out back works its magic on a batch of chickens. For over six years we have been ordering the maple pecan scone, slightly warmed. I order the vegetarian breakfast burrito, add black beans, a side of hash browns with onion and two containers of their homemade salsa on the side.

Venturi

Before we stepped into this beautiful pizza heaven we had heard plenty of buzz from all of our friends, and, of course, I read the Edible Michiana article, which lit the fire under us. This place is truly a eat here now Jillian Speece of the Bergamot dishes on the music duo’s top 5 places for great food in Michiana star ratings gem. Let me repeat: Venturi is a brilliant, delicious gem. When we toured through Europe in 2013, we ate some of the best pizza in the world. So when we arrived back in the Midwest we were a bit worried about finding a great Neapolitan pizza.

Bread+Bar by Bit of Swiss

This place is a must! This past May, when Nathaniel and I were touring through the Midwest, we stopped here before our show at The Box Factory. Actually, we stopped dead in our tracks after taking one bite of their pretzel chips and the Taxi Driver’s Wife Mussels 21 with Gewürztraminer + thyme + parsley + butter + grilled garlic bread. That grilled garlic bread was to-die-for. And we topped it off with their smoked whitefish salad. The atmosphere is very Brooklyn: clean lines, modern with rustic charm, real candles on the tables, truly enchanted!

Rocco's

Not only did we share our first meal together here in 2003, but their classic cheese pizza paired with a large bowl of the Julia Special Salad is enough to have us say it was love at first bite. For over a decade, year after year, we have eaten Rocco’s cheese pizza, loving every bite. And of course we can’t say enough about Linda and Warren Verteramo. We have spent many Saturday nights crashing more of the Verteramo family gatherings than we would care to admit to.

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