Main Street Diners: Where Hoosiers Begin the Day

Note: Some of the restaurants listed have changed ownership and a few may have closed. However, the atmosphere and ambiance, the food and the friendliness remains at most of the eateries.

Ever long for a trip back home-back to that small town diner where eggs and bacon sizzled on the open grill, where no one was a stranger? It's still possible to return to such places despitegifts for men, basketball skeptics who say there no longer is a sense of community, that homemade food is a thing of the past, that friendliness and neighborliness are only memories of another time. Those critics are wrong. That down home goodness many of us abandoned yesterday for the convenience of today still exists. It just takes a while to find it. This is a guide to Indiana's Main Street diners where we all can renew our faith in the old-fashioned virtues of kindliness and friendship while savoring tasty home cooked food. Check out the 125-plus diners author Wendell Trogdon describes in this book about small town cafes where the aroma of eggs and bacon wafts from grills across dining rooms unchanged by time. Enjoy the harmonious atmosphere of diners where wealth or position is unimportant, where one man's opinion is as good as another in the conversations that take place at what some call the "liar's tables."